hit and run
Last night, I had a little trouble picking my roommate up from the airport.
To be perfectly honest, it wasn't that bad a collision. Traffic stopped on 826N, and so did I... but the truck behind me carried too much inertia into my rear bumper - where it did its job admirably. I didn't even get knocked into the green Saturn that had stopped in front of me.
No one was injured, and I suppose that is all that matters - but it does irritate the heck out of me that the other driver chose not to stop and share their insurance information, and that my passenger and I were too jazzed and too surprised to get their license plate number as they barreled past on their way to wherever they were going.
Of course, the trunk doesn't really open or close that well anymore, and the left rear brake light is no longer functioning, and I have no idea what else may be stressed in the general frame of the car. I know that I am stressed, because I live in Miami, a city in a state that requires all persons to be insured to carry a valid driver's license, and where half of the people in the county are uninsured. As a result, my insurance has a thousand dollar deductible for uninsured or hit-and-run motorists, and I am not a happy camper.
But no one is injured.
Maybe. My neck feels a little stiff, but sorting signal from noise is difficult: I am not sure if this is from staring into a microscope all of yesterday afternoon, or from the sudden bump at the end.