Most of my 'car' stories happened with the Prelude but I do have one funny story in this car. I was attending UCA at the time and it was the last day before spring break. I was going from the parking lot behind the science building to the street that was diagonally across. Well I didn't pull onto the street, stop, and turn left. No, I just tried to dart across. I didn't see that other little red car coming down the street. WHAM! Yes, it was my fault but I don't believe the other driver's injury claim when she got out of her car first to check on me. Well my car was towed away and we both seemed fine. When I got back to my rented room, I called my parents. No answer, so I left a message saying I'd been in a wreck. I called over and over till my dad finally called that night. I said 'where have you been? didn't you get my message?' It happened to be April 1st and he said 'yea, haha, April fools joke.' I said, 'it's no joke. the wrecker took my car to some body shop.' I wish I could say the story ends there, lol, but it doesn't. While my car was being fixed, I borrowed my parent's Nissan Maxima. The first day back from spring break, in the same parking lot, this guy backed out of his parking space right into me. Okay, this wasn't my fault this time. Not too much damage but still it was a bad driving week for me.
Accidents are going to happen so when you get that call, just be thankful first that they're ok.
When our son was little, I was going to take some food to my husband b/c he was working late. I told our son to put his toys down and hold the bowl of rice and chicken we were taking to his dad. The next thing I knew, he had dropped the food in the floorboard - bowl was on the floor - but the toy was still in his hand. HE'd tried to hold onto both. So I started chewing him out and ... drove us right into the ditch! I'm sure there is a moral in there somewhere...:)
ReplyDeleteApril fool day jokes are suppose to be funny, not wrecks.
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Again, you are so right, Angie. Accidents are going to happen, whether in cars or elsewhere. It doesn't matter so much whose fault it is (although we do need to obey the rules!!) as it does that everyone is okay. I scraped the side of my brother's car on a parking meter when I was a teenage driver....trying to parallel park....and kept it a secret from him for the longest time. Even got it repaired while he was working and still did not tell him. What I didn't know was that my mother, who had been sworn to secrecy, DID tell him!! He kept teasing me that that "one little area of the car was a lighter shade of yellow than the rest of the car", LOL! The whole time he KNEW what had happened but never got mad at me. He is a good brother! Thanks, again, for the memory...love you, T. And your dad is right....April Fool's "jokes"...though yours was not a joke...should be funny!!
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