Kuhrash

Yesterday, I had an appointment in the city and had to drive my car in. It was snowing and the roads were crazy slippery, but I've driven in the snow plenty and know how to handle myself. It just makes the part about keeping away from other cars all the more essential. No problems, in and out. Not even anything scary.

Today, on the other hand, I dropped my daughter off near the Kimmel Center, and then was headed over to Reading Terminal for some tasty beef jerky, when right through a red light comes a guy and bang, the years-without-accident streak is broken at 35. I guess it was bound to happen sometime, just by random chance. And no beef jerky for me today.

I was pissed, to be perfectly honest. I take this stuff really seriously and work my butt off trying to drive safely, but it shows you that even the best drivers are not 100% protected from anything. Odd as it is to use the work "fortunate" in a case like this, everything about this was as fortunate as it could have been considering the circumstance. First of all, nobody got hurt, even a little bit. Second, although both cars had significant damage- real body shop damage- they were driveable at least for the moment. Waiting for a tow truck would have been really unpleasant.

So back home I went, slowly. I decided I would try to go to a repair shop and see what they could do about the loose plastic stuff hanging off the side, but on the way I decided to swing by the local body shop on the off chance they were open on a Saturday. Almost shockingly, they were. The guy deemed the car undriveable, even though it was pretty clear that I had driven the car in order to get there, (I guess it only needs to be undriveablish). He called a rental car place and literally 3 minutes later someone came by to pick me up (because the rental car place is 4 blocks away). I am now driving a red Mini with a white roof. Very cute. I'll fully review it later.

So here it was, about an hour after the accident, and I was home, feeling just fine physically, with a cute red Mini parked in the driveway. And I can go about my business as if nothing happened. Life is not so bad, even when it's bad.