So my car got rear-ended yesterday. This is not necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n
I had just exited the freeway, and was waiting to turn right on a busy road. I edged forward to see the oncoming traffic… saw a truck coming… stopped… and whack! I got hit from behind by a lady in an Acura MDX SUV. For such a light impact there was a surprising amount of damage. It turns out the MDX has a nice wedge-shaped grille, set at the perfect height to dent my trunk and ride up on my bumper, tearing it loose. <\/p>\n
Well, nobody was hurt, but the poor lady felt just awful about the whole thing. I can certainly sympathize with her, because I did the exact same thing<\/em> not so long ago. The only difference was that my Sentra just left a scuff mark on my victim’s bumper. (The guy called me back the same day and said, “It’s barely even visible. Forget about it.”)<\/p>\n Anyway, here’s why this whole incident isn’t such a bad thing — for me, anyway. Three years ago, a man rear-ended my car, knocking the bumper loose. We exchanged numbers, and he said, “Look, let’s not get insurance involved. I’ll just pay you directly.” I figured, why not do the guy a favor… why mess up his insurance rates over such a little thing? “Sure,” I said stupidly. I didn’t even bother to collect his policy number just-in-case — how rude and untrusting that would have been of me! You can guess the rest of the story. <\/p>\n So…<\/em> even though I managed to pop my bumper back in place, it still looks dinged, and I’ve been seething over this for the last three years. Finally<\/em>, my now thoroughly-trashed bumper will be replaced, although not by the original person. Karma is fickle.<\/p>\n Now if only someone would kindly veer out of their lane and sideswipe me in the front<\/em> (where, two years ago, someone scraped the hell out of my car in a parking lot and didn’t leave a note). Then we would be back in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So my car got rear-ended yesterday. This is not necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}