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The last time I was in any sort of car collision, it was like in 2002.\u00a0 Completely my own fault and fortunately didn\u2019t involve anyone else, just me being a dumbass with a new-ish car, thinking I was invincible.\u00a0 But over the last two decades, I\u2019ve been fortunate to not have gotten any incidents by my own fault, as well as fortunate to not have been victim to someone else\u2019s shitty driving capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n Welp, two decades worth of incident avoidance came to an end the other day, when some dumbass managed to tap my rear fender and cause damage to my six-month old car.<\/span><\/p>\n TL;DR nobody was hurt and honestly, my car is actually in almost an unblemished state.\u00a0 Just my rear passenger rim has a few scuffs that looks more like I scraped a curb parallel parking rather than getting hit on the highway.\u00a0 The other guy\u2019s shit Camry on the other hand looks like they\u2019ve been in a collision because their car is light colored, plus they\u2019re the ones who hit me, contrary to the driver\u2019s immediate accusation when we pulled over to assess the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n In short, the above exit is where the incident occurred.\u00a0 I was in the left exit lane to I-285, and the other person was right where the truck is in this screen grab from Google street view.\u00a0 I\u2019m passing them and then suddenly I feel the bump, and it actually took me a second to register that I\u2019d just been hit.\u00a0 For a brief second, I thought about continuing because it wasn\u2019t a big hit by any stretch of imagination, but rational thinking prevailed and we both pulled over immediately, lest anyone get accused of a hit and run.<\/span><\/p>\n As mentioned, my car barely had any damage.\u00a0 Their car on the other hand, although just as superficial of a wound that didn\u2019t impact their ability to drive, by virtue of having a light-colored car, is more noticeable.\u00a0 I immediately snapped pictures of the impact point of both cars and their license plate, and asked if they were alright.\u00a0 Naturally, they were as it wasn\u2019t more than a small tap, but the normal world isn\u2019t a video game, and small taps in moving vehicles still need to be examined for rational people.<\/span><\/p>\n The driver of the other car, and his mail-order 90 day fianc\u00e9 looking girlfriend didn\u2019t waste any time in accusing me of hitting him, claiming I was trying to cut them off, and I calmly disagreed since I had my own exit lane, there was no reason for me to cut them off if I wanted to pass them.\u00a0 I explained that I wasn\u2019t going to play the blame game, and that we would most likely tell our insurance companies our respective stories and we\u2019ll let them deal with the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean seriously?\u00a0 The laws of physics would say I would have had to have done some pretty intricate driving to have hit them in the point of impact and amount of damage, but from his driver\u2019s seat, a sneeze, a jerk, or maybe he was getting a road beej from his mail-order side piece, was more than easy enough for him to have jerked his wheel to the left for a nano-second enough to have tapped me while I was passing.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s fuel to the perfect storm of failure though; I\u2019m in the midst of switching phones, so the phone I had on my person had no network signal.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019m reminded after the fact that any phone regardless of network connectivity still has the capability of dialing 911, but I wasn\u2019t thinking about it at the moment of incident, so I didn\u2019t call the cops.\u00a0 The other guy wasn\u2019t calling the cops, either because he knew he caused the incident, or maybe because he was a black male and I get why he\u2019d not want to bring a cop out.\u00a0 Maybe both, who knows.\u00a0 Either way, no police report occurred, which means that no matter the actual fault, most likely nothing is going to happen, and it\u2019s a push both legally and with insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n So it\u2019s extra fortunate that my car basically had no damage because I\u2019d hate to have to pay a deductible to get superficial scuffs removed or a new rim, and have an accident reported on my VIN, because it\u2019s most likely nothing can happen given the end result.<\/span><\/p>\n But all the same, I was involved in a collision, the first in two fucking decades, and naturally it\u2019s because some dumb shithead was a bad driver, and not because I caused it.\u00a0 In the grand spectrum of things, it\u2019s fortunate that my car had no actionable damage and nobody was hurt, but I\u2019m still full of piss and vinegar because it wasn\u2019t my fault, and it completely derailed my entire day and makes me feel like my feeling of confidence and superiority in driving ability is wounded because I still fell victim to someone else\u2019s recklessness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last time I was in any sort of car collision, it was like in 2002.\u00a0 Completely my own fault and fortunately didn\u2019t involve anyone else, just me being a dumbass with a new-ish car, thinking I was invincible.\u00a0 But over the last two decades, I\u2019ve been fortunate to not have gotten any incidents by … Continue reading All streaks come to an end eventually<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,112,45,52,105,10,49],"class_list":["post-48986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-owned","tag-rage","tag-traffic","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48988,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48986\/revisions\/48988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}