# ...Bring May Glowers (Monthly Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** monthly-mini-rant\ **Created:** [May 1, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-may-glowers-monthly-mini-rants/1017737 "2025-05-01T05:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 248
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-may-glowers-monthly-mini-rants/1017737/248 "2025-05-20T14:04:03Z")
Here’s an accident with a happy ending: > [@Positive Counterfactuals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-counterfactuals/1017131/2): > > I’ve sorta told this story before. Back last fall I bought a low mileage very new used car. But it couldn’t be delivered for a couple weeks so I was still driving my old one. Which I intended to sell back to the dealership for a pre-arranged price once I had my new one. Call it a “delayed trade-in.” It’s Friday afternoon. My new car should be delivered to my house on Monday. I’m on the freeway in thick but fast afternoon traffic when 70mph suddenly turns into stopped. I stop before whacking t… May yours come out as well. In the vid it seems like their front end was undamaged. I hope that implies that your rear end damage is relatively slight & cosmetic. I tried to see if I could tell whether the other driver was face-down in their phone. Couldn’t tell. Damn. I assume your cameras also recorded the front view. Which would be important to establish _why_ you stopped at what in the rear view appears to just be a random spot in the road. To be sure, the rule of thumb is that a rear-end crash is _always_ the fault of the following car. But there are exceptions. Not that this _is_ one of those situations, but it’s sure what the other side will claim. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-may-glowers-monthly-mini-rants/1017737)._