Amazing how horrible a day can be

[nin_fragile14]

Woke up this morning around 11:30, went downstairs, ate some breakfast, and started browsing some of the usual messageboards I post on. Around noon, I got a call from a friend who wanted a ride to work. I said "yeah, I'd love to, I want to get out anyway because it's so nice outside".

I had showered the night before, so I went up to my room and threw on some clothes. I saw my cell phone charging and decided not to take it. (Funny how you rationalize things strangely; I didn't take the phone because I had jeans on and didn't want it to weigh heavily in my pockets. Besides, I wouldn't be gone that long.) I went to brush my teeth and noticed how much of a mess my hair was, but I decided what the hell, I wasn't going on a date, I was picking up a guy I'd known for years. I grabbed my keys, wallet, and a few CDs and went out to my car.

I spent a few mintues in the driveway pulling out some CDs and putting them in my CD visor. When I was finally ready to go, I rolled down the windows and headed up my street, feeling pretty good about how nice the weather was after it had snowed all last week. It was about 70 degrees, so I had all the windows down and the music up pretty loud, with my driving arm hanging out the window. When I got to the stop sign at the top of the street that I'd stopped at thousands of times, I slowed the car down, looked left, then went forward, hitting a passing car that was right in front of me.

I didn't think, "Am I ok? Is she ok?" I thought, "Oh ****, I'm not going to be able to afford the insurance jump on this." I got out and we exchanged information, called the police, called a towing company for her car (two tires were flat) and I ended up walking back to my house to call my friend and tell him I wasn't taking him to work. I almost wanted to laugh.

Now I have to get the car appraised and probably won't be able to keep it because of the insurance jump. I'm signed up to have an apartment next year in college, but I don't know how I'm going to swing that if I have no car. All because I wasn't paying enough attention. I also have to pay a 500 dollar deductible for the insurance, so I will probably end up cancelling the order for the Mitsubishi LCD that I placed a few weeks ago so I can afford this.

When crap like this happens, I keep thinking, "what if I'd taken my cell phone, what if I hadn't had to mess with the CDs in the car, what if my friend wouldn't have called, what if I would have spent more time brushing my teeth..." Then I think, "what if I wouldn't have been an idiot and actually paid more attention when I was driving."

I won't know until later this week how much the insurance will jump, but most likely, I'll be out of a car for a while since I won't be able to pay it. Should be fun. :) So I guess I have a question.... what are some of the accidents that you've been in... if any... I feel like an idiot because my dad has never been in one that was his fault.

[LORD-eX-Bu]

drove my old 10 passenger 450 hp van thru my fence when I was on the cell. Speeding, almost hit a lexus with the bimmer. eh... lets see... hit the curb once and thought the car was gonna flip. Was on the quad with a friend, goin' about 70mph thru the desert winding in and out of turns, leaned the wrong way and almost ate it :D the worst has to be for my sis tho, she had the van totalled by KFC. She got hit by another van, that one got flattened, and both dragged for about 200ft. Nobody died, but there were some nasty injuries. My bro crashed my dad's old porsche into a pole, but the pole bent and the porsche only had scratches. Later, somehow, the car lit on fire and killed itself, then there was the time when I was little when my dad was in ICU and my mom had to drive, she ended up crashing in the hospital parking lot into a rail right in front of an officer ;) he was real nice tho, waited in front of my dad's room and tore the ticket he gave my mom up and then gave her a bunch of groceries donated by the police department. Some cops might be dumb, but the vast majority are great people and very compassionate:D

[SurfMonkey]

Hmm, been in a few accidents but always as a passenger. The only one I have ever had myself was very nearly the last one I would ever have :)

I always owned motor bikes because they were fun and cheap to run. I was a careful rider, I passed my basic training without a problem and passed my part 2 first time. I also did an advanced training course and passed that. I was a good rider ;)

Anyway, on my way to a friends house on night, I was taking some books back, I had a little accident. It was raining a little bit and there was a slight mist but the road was clear so I decided to move a little bit quicker then normal. Unfortuanately for a some drunken ass sh*t had decided the same thing. As I went round a corner I was confronted by a fast moving red car slap bang in the middle of the road. At this point I had three choices, carry on and end up in the back seat of the car (v dead), swerve right and ride through a chain link fence into a river (v dead, in pieces, and fish food), and the final one,which I took, swerve to the left ride up a grass bank and drop the bike (not dead, probably bruised, maybe a broken bone or two).

So I rode up the bank, at this point I was probably only doing ~30mph). I was also pushing myself backwards so I could drop off the bike (you don't want to be anywhere near it when it hits the floor). What I didn't see from the road though was the really, really large boulder lying half hidden in the grass. When the bike hit that it stopped dead, and all things being equal, I didn't. Wouldn't have been too bad but my left foot got caught between the engine and the frame. So I proceeded forward over the handle bars about to part company with my foot. Luckily(!!) the bike decided the continue its forward motion and flipped over the boulder as well. Of course I was now under a very heavy chuck of metal. Things got a little bit fuzzy after that :D

I do remember being lifted into the air so that the bike was standing on its rear wheel and I was stretched out above it. Then it slammed me into the road like some crazy wrestler and I lost the plot for a while. I remember seeign dark stuff moving in front of my face (the road) and then I was sitting in a hedge with my knees up in front of me looking across the road. The bike meanwhile was noe on the reamins of its front wheel above me. And just to make sure I knew I was in the sh*t it landed on top of me... ;) Looking back I think that was really unfair!!

I lost lots of blood, stopped breathing three times, fractured my skull in two places, broke both legs, all my fingers, fractured two vertebrae in my back, broke four ribs, shattered my left elbow, snapped my hamstrings, cruciate and medial ligaments. I was even air lifted to hospital, and they told my mother to basically start arranging my funeral.

Afterwards I found out that the guy in the car had run two other cars off the road before he got to me and it was one of these people who were chasing him that found me and called the ambulance. They never caught him and that was the last I ever heard about it. Took me two years to learn how to walk again and I've never been able to get the courage to get back on a bike.

[nin_fragile14]

Originally posted by SurfMonkey

I lost lots of blood, stopped breathing three times, fractured my skull in two places, broke both legs, all my fingers, fractured two vertebrae in my back, broke four ribs, shattered my left elbow, snapped my hamstrings, cruciate and medial ligaments. I was even air lifted to hospital, and they told my mother to basically start arranging my funeral.

Afterwards I found out that the guy in the car had run two other cars off the road before he got to me and it was one of these people who were chasing him that found me and called the ambulance. They never caught him and that was the last I ever heard about it. Took me two years to learn how to walk again and I've never been able to get the courage to get back on a bike.

I bet you'd like to beat the **** out of the guy who did that. It seems unfair that he just got away with that. :mad: