Hit and Run

It was a year ago this month that I got in an accident with my 2001 Hyundai Elantra. I had just paid off the car. Well, I finishing my Friday class and I pulled out of campus onto the main road. The driver in front of me came to an abrupt stop. I jammed on the brakes and probably missed a collision by about a foot. So here I am, wiping my brow and saying in my head, "that was close," when WHAM! I get rear ended from behind, and a five car pileup ensues. My car was crushed like an aluminum can. While nobody was hurt (thank god), my car, that I had just paid off, was totaled. The woman who hit me, had no insurance. It was quite a mess to rent a car for a week. It was disheartening to have to look for a new car again.

I was upset that I would now have to start another car payment. I was also upset that my Hyundai was the first car I had ever bought new. I wasn't about to start over car payments on a used car. Fortunately, I got a decent settlement for my old car (about half of what it would cost to purchase a new car), so the prospect wasn't as bleak as I originally thought it would be. I did end up getting a slightly used car: a 2004 Toyota Corolla S, stick shift. In the end, I was pretty happy with my choice. This was, by far, the best looking and highest quality car that I had ever owned. I had never owned a "sports" car of any kind before. Granted, a Toyota Corolla is a lower end car and the S isn't someone's first thought when they think of a "sports car"... but hey. I'm usually a pretty conservative person, so this was a real stretch for me.

So now it is a year later, last Monday. I am again at school, and driving down "Exit" road to leave campus. It is late at night; after 10pm. Suddenly, literally thirty feet in front of me, a deer runs across the road. I start slowing down. I have this sinking feeling in my mind, because, you know, there is never just one deer... WHAM! Out of nowhere from the blackness to my right, this shape gets bigger in the span of a split second, and another deer runs head first, full bore into the right side of my car. The next thing I know, my right side mirror is directly in my line of sight out my front windshield, laying on the hood. So, by this time, my brain registers three things all at once:

1.) I just hit a deer... scratch that. A deer just hit me.
2.) I just killed or maimed a deer.
3.) MY CAR!

I glance in my rear view mirror, thinking I will see a deer carcass in the road behind me. Sure

• 1
• 2
• next page >>

---

Add your voice

Know something about Humor: Bad days?
We want to hear your view. Write now!