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lyssie ([personal profile] lyssie) wrote2002-05-02 12:33 am

I wasn't even going that fast...

What's sad is that I knew the road was slick. I was slowing down a fucking block away from the stop sign.

Still didn't help.

An idiot began backing out of the alley. In my path. Of course, looking back, if I had just not immediately hit the brake, or even if I'd swerved without stopping--no, wait, then I would've hit the truck head on.

Instead, I skidded, fighting to go around the fucking bitch. Didn't, of course.

Why did this have to happen on my way to work? Why not at a time when I was rested, and relaxed enough to be able to remember my name?

My bumper went under hers (apparently, she couldn't get her car into drive), and now my front grill looks like I took a sledgehammer to it.

Interestingly enough, my headlights are fine. The casing shattered, and one's oddly bent.... But the bulbs themselves are perfectly working (even the brights).

And now I sit here shaking, finally being able to relax and feel. I couldn't, then. I had to go to work. To sit at a desk while rich assholes pretended that running out of toilet paper was a national emergency. They can't even call a fucking cab for themselves.

The other car has some... scrapes, I guess they'd be called.

She rabbited, too. By the time my mind was saying, "Exchange names and numbers, and get her license plate number, too." she was gone. Apparently, it wasn't worth backing out of the alley after all.

I haven't a clue what my parents will say. By the time my mother was home, the new yuppie trainee was there. I wasn't about to hold THAT sort of conversation with her leaning over my shoulder.

Dad works two jobs. I don't think I've seen him since Sunday.

[identity profile] curlyjo1.livejournal.com 2002-05-01 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
*snugs and offers a cup of tea*

[identity profile] indiana-j.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Gaaah.

*HUGS tightly*

*big groovy hugs*

[identity profile] gordon-r-d.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
/me hands Lyssie a cup of tea and a packet of jaffa cakes

:(

Re: *big groovy hugs*

[identity profile] frobisher.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
/me hugs and "borrows" a couple of jaffa cakes... :-)

[identity profile] acetal.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Eep! *hugs* I'm glad you're okay. Physically, anyway.

Yuppie trainer? Someone who trains yuppies? *tries hard to be simultaneously distracting, relaxing, amusing and comforting* Erm? *hat with bells on - yes, I actually do have one - jingle-jangles and flops over his eyes*

[identity profile] cosmic.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs*

[identity profile] foible.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
*snuggles*

[identity profile] michaellee.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yuck! The most important thing is that you're ok. But I know from experience that it's frustrating, and you keep running through your mind what you could have done differently.

At least...

[identity profile] technophobia.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
You didn't completely total your car by T-boning a mobile home like I did that one time. :) Glad you're safe and sound, and your parents will hopefully understand that there was nothing you could do, and be happy that at least you're safe.

*hugs*

[identity profile] unmutual.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs*

[identity profile] thatpalebluedot.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs tightly*

love ya.

love n'light,
Heatherly

[identity profile] drake57.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
*snugs*

sorry about the car Ana,i'm glad you're ok

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2002-05-02 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hon, I'm just glad you're OK. *snugs* Hang in there, lovely.