Thursday, November 16, 2006

Hitting parked cars.

I've moved to a new apartment in the past few days! Exciting, yes. Stressful, good grief! I have my moving van double parked in the street because of course there are no parking spaces within a 5 block radius. Things are going well, I'm bringing up a few things to the apartment before my roommate gets off work at 3 to come and help finish the job. I'm on about my 3rd trip up to the aparment, unloading some things, when I hear an incessant honking from the street below. I stroll up to the front window out of curiousity to see a city bus stopped behind my van waiting to get by. Fuck! I run down the stairs, jump in the van, put it into gear and rush down the street to fine an open spot in front of a fire hydrant. I make a sharp right turn, in order to free up th lane for th bus, and slam into the front of a parked jeep grand cherokee with the side of my van. FUCK! MOTHERFUCKER! FUCKYOUCITYBUSYOUTOTALLYCOULDHAVEGOTTENBYWITHMEMOVING! FUCK! At this point I'm thinking, of course the ONE time in my life I opt not to take out the collision insurance on a rental vehicle I hit a fucking PARKED car. People on the street walking by literally spun around to see what was going on as I screeched along the front of the parked jeep. The jeeps front light is busted, it's dented and scratched and the side of my van is completely dented and bent in. How did this happen? I mean, of course it happened.....as I was initialing and turning down the collision insurance for the van the thought ran through my head...."you're going to get into an accident idiot." And, I did. I was a wreck for the rest of the day.

Luckily for me, I rented from a ghetto cargo company that mostly rents to film crews and I they didn't even glance at the van when I returned it. Unluckily for the parked jeep, I'm a poor asshole and I didn't even bother to leave a note of appology. But, I'm sorry. I truly am.....know that....whoever you are. I hope we never meet, because you would be very mad and I would be very scared.

I'm never moving again.

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