Crashing to a Halt

So last night as tempertures reached into the 20's I found myself talking to my co-worker as to how slick the roads must be outside. We both said to eachother we weren't worried about the way we drove rather the about the other crazy drivers around us.

Well lunch time hit and I headed home for lunch at 9:10 p.m. I was just about to turn down the street I live on when I saw the whole street was a patch of ice. So I slowed down,went into the other lane to allowed my car room to slide without hitting anything and well that wasn't enough. I knew I was going to slide and as I started to slide I figured it wasn't going to be that bad. What I didn't think about was the little downward slope in the road. (side note: there are these people that always park on the street and I always say "One of these days their car is going to get hit" funny thing they thought that same thing.)Well I slid into their car. Kinda embarrassing to admit that it was a parked car. My car spun around to the front and I was just in total shock. The people came running out of there home to make sure I was okay. I looked at their car...minor scratches and a dent in the floor board. They had a 2000 Ford Expedition. I was driving my 1996 Toyota Camry. My car on the other hand...crumpled up fender...smashed in front bumper and broken blinker lights.

I'll tell you this much if the whole ordeal was in reverse there was such minor damage to their car that I would of just been like"Oh it's okay don't worry about it." But I guess to them it was a huge deal so we had to exchange all the insurance info yada yada yada...then of course a cop showed up.

He didn't give me a ticket because he said there was no way I could of avoided the situation and it would of happen pretty much anyways to someone else if it hadn't happened to me (people were dumb to park their car where they did). Needless to say the people moved their car away from the road. The police officer moved his car to avoid it from getting hit as well, while he filled out the acident paper work. Well funniest thing ever. He went to move his car and it was stuck. It was so icy he had no traction. We asked if he needed a push but he finally go it going.

Since I was so close to home Travis walked down the street to make sure I was okay. I asked him if he'd move my car out of the street until I was done with everything and we pulled into where the cop had been parked before. The cop told me it would take about 10-15 minutes and I could just wait in my car. I was sitting in my back seat when "Bam" a car slid into mine! They were trying to make the same turn I had been trying to make. (side note: I parked where the cop had parked the poor chick would of hit his car if he hadn't of moved)( other side note: Thank goodness the people whose car I had hit had moved their car other wise she would of hit their car!) I got out thinking, "Great how bad is the damage on this side of the car?" Well fortunately she just scraped some paint on her car and had a few minor dents....on my car the drivers door was a little dented but it just looks like someone threw a basketball at it. She was freaking out and I told her everything was fine and that she didn't have to exchange insurance info with me. (Like I was going to make her insurance rates go up for something as minor as that.) Oh yeah and this whole while the cop was filling out paperwork he never even noticed the chick hit my car. By the time he got back to my car and I told him what happened and he was like "Really?"

Needless to say it was an eventful night. I will be investing in snow tires!