last evening on the way home from work, i got into an auto accident. The other driver didn’t appear to be hurt, and I don’t seem to be too badly injured.
Mother fucker, I just spent $900.00 on my 90000 mile maintenance and a couple of minor repairs, and now I’m going to have to shell out $500.00 more bucks for the deductible. Christ that hurts.
So I was driving home with the sun in my face, coming up to the lone traffic signal light on that stretch of road, and the car directly in front of me, a Volvo S80 was not moving. Neither were is his brake lights on, or at least that’s how it appeared. When I realized that he wasn’t moving, I immediately braked and moved to the right shoulder, barely striking his right read bumper.
We exchanged information, and he tried to get me to admit that the accident was my fault, which I parried. I pratically had to strangle the witness to get her to give me her name and phone number. The Police showed up and took our statements.
The tow truck driver was this burled-walnut colored man with waaaay too much exposure to the sun. He was pretty gross-yet-strangely-hot-in-a-rough-really-rough-trade-kinda way. He was the only sympathetic ear at the scene. Of course I didn’t do much talking as he towed my car to their yard for transport to the auto body repair place this morning.
I have a teensy pain in the upper part of my right knee. I have a sensation like someone is sticking their thumb into a muscle on my lower middle back. My shoulders feel really tight. My neck is fine - I had on my seat belt, my seat was adjusted much more upright than I had been having it adjusted, and my headrest was, as always, pratically touching my occipitus.
To top all of this off, my partner’s psycho sister arrived yesterday for a week’s visit. She isn’t really as bad as I had been lead to believe, and she’s not on all those pills anymore, so I’ll be giving her as fair a shake as I can give at the moment.
And, my contract will be expiring in mid-September, so I need to start thinking about my next position. I don’t expect that they will be extending this contract again, actually, I don’t think that they legally can, so it’s back to the agencies and job boards and what-not.
