BAM pop

Friday Afternoon.

I had torn my pants on Saturday night at work, thankfully we had closed the store by the time this happened and a co-worker Lindsey was the only one there - It was embarrassing but since it was just Lindsey it was a little less embarrassing, also they tore from simple wear and tare not from anything else - if they had torn from my booty being too big I wouldn't be blogging about it. I guess that's the beauty of a blog - there's no reason not to say something so telling people you tore your pants doesn't really come with the hot-cheeked red-face. Anyway I had torn my pants at work on Saturday night so Friday evening I was headed to the Goodwill Clearance Center on Haywood Road to hopefully find some new pants.

I had turned onto Haywood from Pelham and had been breaking since I turned (and I know my break lights worked). I had nearly came to a complete stop when BAM I get rear-ended. Rear-ended hard enough to be knocked into the car in front of me POP. The Greenville Police did not take long to respond though the shitty thing was that the first cop there wasn't the one who processed the accident. Cop One moved us all to the Chuck-E-Cheese parking lot and had us wait for Cop Two to process the accident. Waiting for Cop Two seemed to take an hour...

The girl in the tan car who plowed into me is pregnant, and the couple in the black car that I was knocked into had their baby daughter in the back seat. The only people being nice to me were the Greenville County Sheriff's Deputies. Ain't that somethin'? The couple I was knocked into kept giving me these dirty looks, so did the woman who had hit me! I felt a little targeted, and I wasn't even found at fault here. For those of you who know Haywood, it's a fairly good distance from Haywood to the next light, and I had my brakes on the whole time - anyone behind me had plenty of time to notice that I was stopping.

Previous accidents. About two years ago an f-350 ran a red light and plowed into my rear passenger side, spun me around that my rear drivers side hit the guardrail and sent my tailgate flying into the Brazos River. When my tire hit, and then went up on the curb it broke my axle. The guy's insurance only paid for replacing the axle so the tail end of my tiny little Sanoma has been chewed up since - my insurance sent a some guy out to look at the truck and determined that the frame was still intact. The state of Texas - which has strict rules about road worthy vehicles (won't allow any truck missing a tailgate to pass inspection) passed my truck once I replaced the tailgate with one of those cheap cloth ones. Most importantly there was NO FRAME DAMAGE. I was especially impressed by this fact, If my little GMC Sanoma can take that kind of beating from a Ford F-350 and not receive anything more than body damage, a missing tailgate, and a broken axle (which was really from being knocked up onto the curb) then it truly does prove that General Motors is way better than Ford. Suck on that Henry.

The cop asked me about the damage to my truck and we both looked at it. There was nothing I noticed at the time - even though I should have. The rear bumper was now bent down. I suppose I was still dazed from the accident and wasn't thinking strait and I remember telling the cop that there was nothing I could see at the moment that was new. He put in his report that there was no new visible damage at the scene of the accident. I guess it's my fault then... When I got home and was thinking more clearly I began to think, I never stop right behind a car... there was at least half a car length between me and the black car... she hit me hard enough to knock me into them... she never braked at all... if she hit me hard enough to knock me into the black car, and to daze me long enough for me to not be able to stop from hitting the black car then... she hit me pretty hard... right? And, if she hit me pretty hard there had to be some damage to the truck...

I looked the whole truck over. She Bent My Frame!

Shit.

So now I have to let my insurance company know that I found more severe damage once I got home. I am going to call the Deputy who processed the accident to let him know and to see what I should do. I should have done that on Saturday but the thing was...

Despite the accident, despite the fact that I woke up with a terrible pain in my back, a splitting headache, and whiplash neck pain I still opened the store Saturday morning and worked all my hours, and haven't had a day off since... The whiplash is gone now and the headache's gone - my back still hurts, but that's more of the accident rekindling old injuries and will take a lot longer to recover than the headache or whiplash. I need a chiropractor. Know an free ones?