Last Sat. I was driving to the park and the radius rod snapped on the drivers side. I gat the kids out, walked the 1-1/2 mi. to home and called a tow truck. But before they could get there, Lincoln Towing (The Lincoln Park Pirates) towed me because I was too close to their lot. NOT IN IT JUST TOO CLOSE!!! So I go on Sun. pay the $105 and get the car home.
I’m borrowing my ex’s 91 Civic this week. Yesterday I come back from lunch to get a note (right after I left BTW) to call the nurse at my daughter’s school:eek:
Some little brat pushed her off the monkey bars and she strained her thigh and couldn’t walk. So I’m driving to get her and I’m going about ten miles over the limit. The road is 4 lanes with only 9 ft. wide lanes. I’m a block from school and these two JACKASSES riding their Mtn. bikes on the grass next to the road decide this would be a good time to jump the curb into the street! I have to slam on the brakes and swerve hard to miss them.
I consider it a good sign of my training that I didn’t hit either them or the Passat next to me.
I pull into the parking lot (100yds. down), very shaken, what with Claire and the near miss so I sit for a second to calm down.
Suddenly the two assholes ride up to me, beat on the car,open the door, PULL ME OUT, and try to wail on me.
Now I’m a big guy so I immed. start fighting back. They slipped around me, grabbed my car keys out of the ignition and rode off!
So now I’m standing with my car blocking the lot, no keys, sore and jangly from adrenaline and a hurt little girl. The cops come, give us a ride to the doctor, and take a statement.
Claire is fine but I’m out every key I have. I have to get my ex to come and get the spare key to the car and then wait for three hours for new apt. keys.
I’m hoping the ChiDope get together will take my mind off the woes (unless there are more serious problems discovered tomorrow morn. when I attempt to fix my car).
I think I told this story before, but I’ll repeat it for those who weren’t bored to tears the first time they heard it. About five years ago, I was driving home from work at about 2 a.m. We had this really crappy old truck that had just about every conceivable thing wrong with it, but didn’t have the money at that time to replace it or fix it. Anyway, I’m driving down the freeway at about 65 mph when all of a sudden I hear this clunking noise and the steering wheels spins freely in my hand. The next thing I know, I’m spinning in circles in the middle of the freeway, then I slammed hard into the outside concrete barrier. Luckily, there was only one other car on the road at the time, and he was far enough behind me to avoid getting hit. This guy runs up to the car, pulls me out of it (I was awake, but pretty dazed because I had hit my head pretty hard on the steering wheel), and then pops the hood and starts beating at the burning engine with his coat, which turned out to be a really nice leather jacket which must have cost him hundreds of dollars. The car was eventually engulfed in flames and was a complete loss, but I managed to walk away with only a mild concussion. I felt bad about the guy’s coat though and I sent a $300 check to him so he could replace it, but he returned the check and told me not to worry about it.
Everyday when I go to cscc people NEVER signal lane changes. It really pisses me off. Especially when they’re about 3 feet ahead of me in the other lane then w/o signaling, move in front of me…yeah…that’s a safe manuever. That’s just starters for what drives me crazy each day on my commute.
Haven’t gotten in any wrecks yet thank God. I’ve been in a few close ones but 99% of 'em wouldn’t have been my fault. Like it would matter…I drive a geo tracker, chances of survival= 10%
Anyone here drive a tracker and have been in any wrecks?
I had a terribly close call today. I was driving in a crappy part of town (remember the shooting I witnessed last year? It was over there) and all of a sudden a car came right into my lane, head on style. It was so close and he was accelerating, so I jerked the wheel to the right and we missed by a VERY narrow margain. I looked in my rear view just in time to see the guy he was RACING coming around the car they had gone around. (His pal went on the shoulder, he went directly into my lane).
I about shit my knickers, let me tell you that. VERY scary. I had to pull over for about 10 minutes.
I hope you are both REALLY okay. Just remember that you shouldn’t sign anything saying you are okay for awhile. Damage can show up later, and you don’t want to sign anything until you are sure.
In 1992 I was “T-boned” on the drivers side by a guy who ran a stop sign. I broke my pelvis in three places, and damaged my SI joint on the left side. I have residual damage to my SI joint.
The other guy’s insurance company will “urge” you to sign off on the accident ASAP. Don’t do it until you are sure that you are fine.
And you don’t HAVE to accept initial offers for your car, or anything else. Take your time, and make sure that you feel comfortable with whatever is offered before you sign ANYTHING.
You were not at fault, and the other side will try to make you feel guilty. This is a tactic they use to “guilt” people into signing off without the insurance company having to assume as much liability as they should.
Good luck, and I sincerely pray that both you and your mom are okay.
I’d have to concentrate for a bit to come up with the number of accidents I’ve been involved in; suffice to say many, including one that put me in the hospital for quite awhile. But the last one, about eight years ago, had a,…I don’t know, I guess a cute note to it.
My girlfriend and I were coming home one evening when a guy ran a stop sign (he never slowed down) and broadsided my side of the car. He hit us pretty hard, spinning my car ~160º and crunching his car but good. Fortunately no one was hurt. The memorable moment came from my girlfriend; as the guy hit us, she said, “Goodbye.”