I had just sat through hours of rush hour traffic picking up my Macbook Pro from a repair place; getting my screen fixed. I was roughly five minutes from my house excited to have my computer back, to go in and play with it or whatever. I made the mistake of putting it on the passenger-side floor, but in my defense I didn't expect to get in a fucking accident.
Anyways the speed limit slowed from 45 to 35 and like a good law-abiding citizen I am, I slowed. Apparently the man driving an old chevy workvan decided in his mind that I MUST be turning since I was slowing up a bit, so he said. I kept going then all of sudden the jackass starts to turn in front of me; I slam on the brakes, its too late.
Next thing I know I was being jerked different directions at the same time, glass was flying everywhere, and apparently somehow I hit my head on the steering wheel, as I have a huge gash across my forehead. No airbags on my side of the car deployed, however the passenger ones did. Thanks, that really helped me didn't it.
I know you're supposed to stay calm after an accident, but I was far from calm. Before I even unbuckled the seatbelt I was screaming profanities at the driver of Van. I immediately grabbed my computer, took it out of the case, and it was fine THANK GOD, I had just spent $775 getting it repaired. I was still screaming at this point, used every curse word in the book probably. I struggled to climb out my drivers side window, still screaming. It pissed me off even more when the other driver told me I need to calm down.
Police came, report filed. Police cited this man for two different things, and told me I was at no fault, I had the right of way.
The very one sight I never wanted to see with this car:
Then of course this blocked off this entire road, which is usually quite busy. So I just had tons of people staring at me and the man. I was apparently shaking extremely badly because I had an officer come over and try and help me breathe normally, she had me sit down. I eventually got over the initial pissed off feeling of the accident, and I went and apologized to the other driver for every name and insult i threw his way. He understood and said i had no reason to apologize, it was his fault afterall.
I did not expect this to happen to me today, but it is never expected I guess.
I'm having no optimism about this; I'm sure it will be totaled out. I'm hoping that I get a decent amount back for it.
So thank you Astro-Man, I hope your rush to get your $500 van home was worth ruining my day, my car, and my head.
edit: they officially totaled it out for $8,600 on 7/27. They refuse to give anymore money for any modifications put on the car, however they also refuse to let me take anything off without deducting from their check.
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