It's not always the illegal parkers that will, like a ship's wheel mounted in the trousers of a pirate, drive me nuts...... sometimes, the regular people who screw up and need tows can make you long for a case of the bloody flux to strike them down.
Take this gentleman for example, he had himself a car accident. Those are pretty bad by themselves, but, this shining happy person went the extra mile.
If there was a checklist of "aggravating factors" that would make having a car accident worse that he was allowed to pick one from, well, he went down the whole column and checked them ALL off.
1. Rear-end another vehicle at fairly fast speeds to be sure you get tagged with the at-fault.
2. Almost push that vehicle ahead and into the vehicle IT was stopped for: A school bus.
3. Said bus had it's warning flashers on
4. Do not wear seatbelt, so that you bounce your head off the steering wheel, requireing the EMTs to be send out for you.
5. While wiating for EMTs, tell responding police officer the reason you hit the guy in front of you was because you weren't watching the road, you were looking down so you could tie your shoes...
6. Have a suspended license
7. Have no insurance
8. Have a car that's so old, it would've been totalled even if you HAD had insurance (A Dodge Aries? I didn't know there was even one of those LEFT to wreck... then again, it had a meager 260,000 miles on it..... the last 20 feet that odometer rolled were the REALLY tough ones it would appear, the car had no rust and not even a DENT, at least until it plowed into that other car...
9. Do this all with less than 10 minutes to go on my shift when I'm packing up my stuff...
10. Request we tow said car home for you, you have out of state plates.... Nope, you can send your guy to OUR place, that's where it'll be until then...
About the only thing good in all of that, he wasn't DUI, at least I don't think he was, we'll have to wait for toxicology, but at the rate he was going, it wouldn't surprise me if he was high as a kite for this whole misadventure.
Why me? I try to lead a good life ya know? Really, I do!!!! Why meeeeee!?!!!
Take this gentleman for example, he had himself a car accident. Those are pretty bad by themselves, but, this shining happy person went the extra mile.
If there was a checklist of "aggravating factors" that would make having a car accident worse that he was allowed to pick one from, well, he went down the whole column and checked them ALL off.
1. Rear-end another vehicle at fairly fast speeds to be sure you get tagged with the at-fault.
2. Almost push that vehicle ahead and into the vehicle IT was stopped for: A school bus.
3. Said bus had it's warning flashers on
4. Do not wear seatbelt, so that you bounce your head off the steering wheel, requireing the EMTs to be send out for you.
5. While wiating for EMTs, tell responding police officer the reason you hit the guy in front of you was because you weren't watching the road, you were looking down so you could tie your shoes...
6. Have a suspended license
7. Have no insurance
8. Have a car that's so old, it would've been totalled even if you HAD had insurance (A Dodge Aries? I didn't know there was even one of those LEFT to wreck... then again, it had a meager 260,000 miles on it..... the last 20 feet that odometer rolled were the REALLY tough ones it would appear, the car had no rust and not even a DENT, at least until it plowed into that other car...
9. Do this all with less than 10 minutes to go on my shift when I'm packing up my stuff...
10. Request we tow said car home for you, you have out of state plates.... Nope, you can send your guy to OUR place, that's where it'll be until then...
About the only thing good in all of that, he wasn't DUI, at least I don't think he was, we'll have to wait for toxicology, but at the rate he was going, it wouldn't surprise me if he was high as a kite for this whole misadventure.
Why me? I try to lead a good life ya know? Really, I do!!!! Why meeeeee!?!!!
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