Totaled car -- eek! But as long as the humans are okay, there's reason to be relieved.
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Dec 27, 2017 3:12:49 am PST #20304 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Laura - Dec 27, 2017 3:41:32 am PST #20305 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
#1 son has unfortunately crashed 3 cars, and lost one to towing which resulted in charges more than the car was worth. No, he does not ever drive my cars. Period. Maybe when he is 40, maybe. We'll see if his record improves. #2 backed my Brand New Car into a dumpster, with a backup camera and beeping alerts that something was behind him. I sobbed without regard for how he felt. Granted that was an exception and he really is a wonderful driver. His job right now involves driving customers' Teslas all day long. No harm has come to a Tesla yet!
But by far the worst was #1 totaling his very first car when he was 18 on my anniversary. It was so clear to all adults that he took the turn too fast then panicked and slammed on the brakes, locking them. I'll never forget the super sympathetic policeman putting his arm around me and patting my back assuring me it would get better. This was almost 8 years ago and it still brings pain, and #1 still denies all responsibility and blames the car. Hence him never ever driving my car.
I really wish I were closer, msbelle. So relieved that Mac escaped injury, but more than understand how awful this rite of passage is.
Theodosia - Dec 27, 2017 3:57:50 am PST #20306 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I think breaking down and wailing in front if mac and friend would have been totally appropriate! Much more so than yelling, which would have been my first impulse!
I'm glad though that he was physically IK, and that the punishment (no car) will be instructional enough of itself.
Laura - Dec 27, 2017 4:01:40 am PST #20307 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
I was searching my bookmarks for something else entirely and found this link that Pix posted in 2012 titled "13 Ways to get through a rough day" - there was a good reason to save that post!
^^^ msbelle to follow linky ^^^
msbelle - Dec 27, 2017 4:10:40 am PST #20308 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I'm shockingly ok. Mac did not die in his sleep, so that's good. I have not yelled at all. I totaled a car when I was 17 and then I was clearly at fault in another wreck when 18 that totaled the other car, so yeah karma.
-t - Dec 27, 2017 4:28:24 am PST #20309 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Glad to hear that, msbelle.
So confused about what day it is. Wednesday cannot possibly be right.
sj - Dec 27, 2017 4:32:27 am PST #20310 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm right there with you, -t
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 27, 2017 4:37:02 am PST #20311 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
At 16 I backed out of a parking lot while only looking in the rearview mirror rather than turning around, and had a low speed collision with a car that had just come through an intersection. But the guy was so eager not to report to the police and to each take care of our own cars' damage that I think he'd blown through the stop sign and was worried it would result in tickets if the police got involved. (Teenage me was much more of a wreck than the car though, and very apologetic.)
Jessica - Dec 27, 2017 4:58:23 am PST #20312 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
msbelle, I'm relieved mac is ok and only the car was hurt. I have the dubious distinction of being the only one of my parents' three daughters who has never totaled a car. (My brother, who is 30, just got his license last year after 15 years of mooching off friends and living in cities with excellent public transit.)
But the guy was so eager not to report to the police and to each take care of our own cars' damage that I think he'd blown through the stop sign and was worried it would result in tickets if the police got involved
About 5 years ago, I was sideswiped by a woman blazing through a just-turned-green light (I had been stopped at the red and was going maybe 5 mph, she hit me on the drivers side trying to go around me at god-knows-how-fast), and she begged to take me to the nearest ATM and just give me cash. I eventually agreed to not call the police, but insisted we exchange insurance information. Turns out she was driving with an expired policy (so if we had called the police, she would have been arrested on the spot) and so my insurance company couldn't do anything about it. I should have taken the money - she was offering $500 for what turned out to be about $75 worth of damage!
meara - Dec 27, 2017 5:18:03 am PST #20313 of 30002
I did once back into the corner of our garage trying to get out of the driveway, at my parents. The garage faced the back of the house and we didn't use it but parked two cars side by side. I was trying to back around the other car and not hit it, and instead hit the house. Oops.