So on my way to work on Tuesday, I was sitting in traffic to get to the office when an impatient and reckless driver decided go from the far left lane through the middle lane, where I was at, and into the right lane. In her maneuver, she hit my driver-side fender, ripped off my front bumper and hit the truck in front of me.
As if that wasn’t enough, she sped down the right lane, past the truck in front of me, cut back through all three lanes of traffic heading westbound, completes her u turn and speeds away eastbound on Century Boulevard.
Since there were more shenanigans to be done by this action-movie-type driver, as she speeds away in the opposite diection of the wreck she caused, she decides to cut through residential streets at a criminally dangerous speed.
Knowing that nobody was hurt at the site of the accident was a relief and the initial concern that that my car would not run or that the damage would extend beyond a destroyed bumper soon faded away. Waiting for my brother to pull up in his truck to pick up the bumper to take it home, I drank my coffee and thought how lucky I was that it wasn’t worse.
The driver that caused this accident had a complete disregard for anyone’s safety and even though she rammed through two vehicles, it was amazing that nobody was hurt and that she did not provoke a greater amount of damage.
Maybe it’s because I have been sleeping better, or maybe the three weeks of exercise have had a weird effect on me but I wasn’t mad. The moment the adrenaline faded away, I decided that that I was not going to let some ignorant, careless and irresponsible individual ruin my day. I wasn’t upset.
Sure, this will burn a hole in my pocket and inconvenience me to some degree but the one thing it will not cause is a feeling of anger or resentment toward a person or situation that does not deserve that much. I am well; as is everyone around the site of the accident and as is everyone I care for.
The car will get fixed and everything else will carry on as expected. As for the driver who caused this, who knows what will happen. People can’t always run from things and one day every person’s actions will catch up to them: sooner or later. All I can hope for is that this this driver slows down before she hurts someone.
