Give Me a Brake!
I heard the Blog Angels singing when I read this story. Seriously – Christmas came early for me. Tiffany, if your girlfriend is mad at you for this, then she has issues beyond you and was just looking for a reason to be upset. Tell Naomi Campbell over there to suck it up. I’m surprised she’s not wearing a neck-brace! Get that Queen of Drama a tiara!
Ladies, enjoy Tiffany’s story .. it’s a gem. Girl, you’re not alone if you hit your friend with a car, ON ACCIDENT!!
I think I’m writing this as therapy. I can laugh about it, but I’m still feeling awful because my good friend is not talking to me. We both live in the city (Chicago) and when I drop her off, I usually do it quickly at the curb because of heavy traffic as well as parked cars on either side of the street. I can’t idle or park. She has to jump out quickly so I don’t hold up traffic. Last week, I was dropping her off and thought she was going towards the back of the car. I immediately looked to make sure I could pull-out quickly in front of the on-coming car. Well, as I moved forward a little while looking out the side window, I suddenly felt something and heard a scream. I stopped immediately and jumped out of the car to find my friend on the ground. My girlfriend had walked in front of the car instead of behind! I hit her with my car! It happened in a matter of seconds and although I just nudged forward, the impact still knocked her over and sprained her wrist. She was a little over-dramatic by laying on the ground, screaming that she broke her arm and stopping traffic. Anyhow, I called her fiance and he ran downstairs. Both of them yelled at me saying I could’ve killed her and my irresponsibility went too far. What?? Yes, I take full responsibility for not checking in front of me, but she knew what direction I was moving in and I was going slow enough that she could’ve hit the top of my car to get my attention! There was no way I could’ve killed her!! Give me a break! I’ve sent flowers, cards and even money to pay for the doctor’s visit. She won’t respond. When I knocked on her door, her fiance answered and said she wasn’t ready to speak to me yet. It’s a crazy situation.
Tiffany, I once forgot to put on the emergency break and my car started rolling on top of me when I opened the trunk, but I did that myself. I guess you can say that I ran over myself. Now…that’s embarrassing.
I’m laughing FOR YOU right now. Let her sulk in her cave of pity. You’re too good for that nonsense and so is your car!
Tags: car accident, embarrassing stories, female drivers, funny story, girl youre not alone, women and driving, women drivers, women humor
October 9th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Tiffany,
I think you just need to give your friend some space and let her deal with this in her own way – which seems to be a “special way”! This was absolutely an accident and for her to be acting this way is totally bizarre.
The first thing I picked up in your blog is that you drop her off every day in the same spot – so basically it sounds like you are doing her a favor every day by picking her up and dropping her off – correct? So she has the luxury of having you come get her and bring her home, curbside – how awful a friend you must be!!
I have a very close friend that is a singer songwriter and I try to get out and support her as often as I can. On one particular night, she asked if she could follow me until we hit the spot where we took different directions and I of course said no problem. So during the drive home I come to a red stoplight and of course stop!
I am at a dead stand still and all of a sudden I feel a huge thrust forward in my car – I have been hit from behind! I take the immediate first side street, pull over and get out expecting to see some stranger trying to make excuses. But no, its my friend who has pulled over behind me! My best friend had just hit my sedan with her SUV and boy was it an ugly sight! No damage to her car at all – I end up having to take my car in and having to rent a car for a week while mine got repaired!
Do I stop talking to her? Do I act like she did this on purpose? She set out to cause extra stress in my life? NO!! Her big booted foot slipped of the brake and onto the gas and she slammed into me! We were both fine – no permanant damage! No problem. I have lost many people in my life to know that this minor incident was not even going to register on the radar. Granted in my case it was my car hit, not me! But still – for you to be dong your friend the “courtesy” of picking her up and dropping her off, and for her to be acting like she lost a limb because of you is absolutely ludicrous. She definately is a drama queen and I would stop trying to make nice and just let her come to you when and if she choses to. You have done nothing wrong!
October 9th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Nicola,
You are a woman of wise words. Beautifully put! Thank you for commenting!
Lauren