7:45am.
i'm on my way to work, stopped at a corner near my building, waiting for the car in front of me to turn right.
there are no cars on the road. we work in the middle of nothing.
the little crappy car goes. no cars are coming. I lean forward and look to my left. it's a blind curve, so i creep foward and look some more, only to discover the car in front of me had never gone, and I tapped them.
crap. it wasn't hard, but still.
we pull to the side. I get out and my bumper is fine. their bumper is fine. i'm in a large SUV. they were in a little car and i didn't even push them. thats how the tap was. a light tap at no speed.
The driver gets out and starts screaming at me. I'm so sorry, i say. She says, "you're sorry???? i have a pregnant daughter in the car!!!"
oh, well then i'm even sorrier.
"what the fuck were you doing?" she screams.
"I thought you went. i'm sorry. it was an accident." (that's what accidents are. accidents)
she calls 911. help, we were just in an accident and my daughter is pregnant. I look at the passenger.
crap again. i work with her.
I said I knew her daughter. she's hysterically crying. like, SOBBING. loud, heart wrenching sobs. the mother is crying. she's pulling on her hair. she's screaming at me. i'm apologizing and getting nervous.
a friend that i work with stops and stands with me. she tells the mother and daughter to calm down- nothing happened and everyone is fine. she whispers to me that they are overly hysterical a lot.
the mother looks at our cars and says there's no damage. nope. no damage. i hit a hyundai and there's not even a dent in the license plate.
the police show up. they look and say there's no damage. he runs my plates, doesn't even ask to see my license and says he's not even going to write up a police report. nothing happened. we were almost at a stop.
whew.
then the mother says she needs an ambulance for her daughter. she's screaming at me again and asking if i'm drunk.
me? i'm dressed in slacks and a new blouse and heels. i'm standing there calmly and they are pulling out their own hair and sobbing uncontrollably, and asking me if *I* am drunk.
the policeman told her to calm down, i'm clearly not drunk and i'm free to go.
i go to work and whoever was in that early saw that something happened. we watch as more police, firetrucks, rescue squads, and an ambulance show up at the corner.
fuck.
20 minutes later, they all drive away and refuse to take her to the hospital as her mother insisted. The girl also refused to go anyway- she said she was ok. the girl and her mom come in and call her doc. the doc said it sounds like she's fine but could come in later for an exam.
so from 8:30 am until she left for the doctor at 1:30pm, she was crying. my whole office told her she was being rediculous. her mom picked her up and they went. when they got back, the daughter called to tell me she's fine (no shit) and that her mom was sorry she was so upset.
i said i was just happy they were fine.
but i can tell you- i almost threw up my stomach.
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