I wake up in a good mood, happy to be surrounded by family and feeling the love.
My mother is visiting and Unknown Papi is around, which is rare.
Our plan was to go to the library to see a puppet show. Since Unknown Papi didn’t have to be to work until later, I asked if he would ride to the puppet show with us and take the train from there.
He agreed.
I packed the whole crew into the car and got behind the wheel on what was promising to be a beautiful sunny day. I turned on the car and prepared to reverse out of the spot I had parallel parked into the day before, and I hit the gas, but instead of going backwards the car went forward!
Son of a b$tch!
That’s what happens when you have car in “drive” instead of reverse; it goes forward even though you thought it would go backwards.
Now Unknown Papi is upset, I’m frazzled, and the car in front of me has a big dent.
I hear the irritation in Unknown Papi’s voice, which I can’t make go away because I don’t have a time machine and just like the car wouldn’t reverse while in “drive”, life won’t reverse just because I made a mistake.
I get out of the car, survey the damage, and leave a note. Part of me just wants to go back home and be miserable for the rest of the day, but there is no point in punishing myself or the kids. I messed up, I’ll deal with it.
Unknown Papi gets out of the car and no longer wants to join us for the ride. Gee, I wonder why?
We go to the library, see an awesome puppet show, and realize it is still a beautiful sunny day just like it had promised to be.
UGH!
That’s gotta suck…But at least the kids had a good time.
I just hate it when I go forward and I wanted to go backwards. That’s the way I spend my life!
So glad your were smart enough not to let a little bump kill the whole day. I backed up into a tree one time . . .the damn thing jumped right in my way. . .my husband was so mad at me I couldn’t believe it! Then a couple of weeks later he hit a parked car. I was WAY nicer to him. 🙂
It happens just happy everyone was ok and you didn’t let it ruin your day! I should learn from that sometimes the littlest things can pull me of course and just mess up the day for me! Thanks for sharing!
Well, shoot. Tough break. Glad you are not beating yourself up over it. In the big picture, a dent is a small thing.
It helped that a neighbor came by and said he was sorry that it happened, that’s it’s happened to him before, but that at least no one was hurt, which is a great thing since I had my whole family with me.
Nice neighbor.
I’m sorry that happened to you!!! I’m glad you fought the urge to hide in a hole and carried on with the day…… good for you!!!!
Good recovery!! My hubby gets wrapped around the axle like that too. I am glad you got out and still enjoyed your day!! I was looking forward to you posting on this.
And there is an even better ending. I had never been the cause of an accident before so I wasn’t clear on how our insurance worked. I thought since I have a $500 deductible, I would be out $500 no matter what, but the deductible is on my car and my car sustained no damage. By the time my insurance called me, the other person had already gotten their car repaired and were just contacting my insurance to see if I accepted fault, given that there was no one in the other car, I have to say it was all my fault. Anyway, I’m so glad that I went ahead with our plans for that day instead of sitting around and being upset because it all worked out. My rates might go up, but whatever there’s nothing I can do about that.
There’s a good lesson in your story. Accept responsibility and move on. Also, pay attention before hitting the gas.
Man that sucks….I ran my car into the garage last week and my hubby back tail light is out after I drove it and possibly back into something that I have no memory of. It sucks plain and simple that is why they are called accidents.
Love that you could see the bright side!
I am so sorry!! Your neighbor is right, everybody’s okay. Am glad that you didn’t allow this incident to ruin your day.
What a bummer. Accidents happen. I hope the damage isn’t too bad for either car.
I love when a beautiful day refuses to be ruined by a little tiny issue. Awesome! Pity that papi didn’t ride with you, though…
I pity the fool.
Oh, jeez. I HATE when that happens…Good luck.
It ended up being pretty painless. I accepted fault, my insurance is paying for it, there car is already fixed, mine has no damage.
Oof, that just sucks! Now I have to know…how much damage WAS there? And more importantly, there obviously wasn’t any damage to the children, and you did a GREAT job of not letting it have any lasting damage on your day. Super kudos for that!
I dented the hatchback on an Audi. My car got nothing. It was definitely something that needed to get fixed on the other car. They got it fixed through their insurance, then my insurance contacted me and I accepted fault. It’s all behind me now. Never even spoke to the person that owns the other car.
So sorry to hear that happened! Hey, you still got to enjoy the beautiful day, right? That’s the bright side of things.
Thought you might enjoy this:
http://xkcd.com/1014/
A little photographer nerd humor.
Thank you, that was hilarious!
So sorry about your car mistake. We all make mistakes, it is part of life. Things can always be worse. So glad that the rest of your day went well.
So gald your forged ahead & your day ended up being beautiful. Damn car, why can’t they have smart features like our phones??? LOL
Great job that you still saw that it was a sunny day! Wish unknown Papi had, too!
Lousy way to start what was to be a fun day! So sorry. Hope it doesn’t cause your insurance premium to skyrocket!