Dumb dumb dumb dumb

[judecorp]

You know, I really hate when I do ridiculously stupid things. Like buy the wrong fecking camera battery because it's in the wrong place at the store, and not notice it until I've opened the package and tried to stick it in the camera.

Yeah. Like I didn't need those nine dollars. I hate being an idiot.

Add that to the new windshield I have to buy tomorrow, and the fact that I went to work with pieces of my current windshield stuck to my work clothes, and we've got a really great day. Yay.

[I should explain. You see, I was cruising down I-70 at a good 60mph or so, and it was pouring down rain, and there was a semi to my left that was entirely blinding me with spray, so I don't know exactly what happened. I only know that *something* fell from the overpass I went under, hit my windshield (with a very very very loud BANG!), broke through, and was gone. And there is glass all over my console and my passenger seat. And it looks like someone thwacked my windshield with a bat. Score! - Upside: I wasn't hurt, it's only a windshield, it's not leaking, it's under $200 to fix, and I didn't even swerve. Which, considering my hypersensitivity to loud noises and my post-abuse exaggerated startle reflex, is really amazing.

p.s. Thank you, M, for being there when I needed you to be.]

I think in lieu of internet or anything productive this evening, I'm going to eat my box of Kraft Cheese 'n Macaroni and watch Chasing Amy.

Comments

[siercia]

I'm sorry, hon! I'm glad you were okay after your run-in with the overpass today.

If it makes you feel better, I accidentally gave the chick at Dunkin's an $18 tip today, as I drove off without my change. See, I'm dumber than you by far!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I just read that, and immediately thought, "Wow, Jenn and I had similar days."

I just hate when I throw away money, because I make so very little of it. There goes lunch tomorrow. Bleh.

I'm very glad it was just my windshield, though. Very glad.

[happy2beso.livejournal.com]

Poo!

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I am impressed you managed to not swerve or flinch -- reading that I think I might've.

But it's amazing what we can do when we have to, isn't it?

*hug*

[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

Jesus, Jude. You had someone looking over your shoulder today. So, question, did you pull over? Call the police? File an accident report or anything? Curious.

And if it makes you feel better I did stupid shit all day. I forgot my metrocard (and with work and therapy today that was a $7.50 oopsie), forgot my schedule so had to ask my manager at work if I had physical therapy today, got on the wrong train and ended up in Brooklyn when I was supposed to be going back to work, and in my crowning glory I tried to go out the automatic doors that say DO NOT EXIT in red letters and got smacked in the face with the door when someone tried to come in the right way. I think today was just dumdum day.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't file an accident report or anything. There really wasn't anything to report, you know? I mean, I don't know what it was, or where it came from, or why. It's not worth going through my insurance, either, because the cost of the windshield is less than my insurance deductible.

At the time, I didn't even think about pulling over. You know when you drive in the winter in Maine and there's all that salt and sand, and some car or truck spits a pebble up at you and makes a ding and you're just like, "crap!" and there's nothing you can do? It's a hell of a lot like that, just bigger. A lot bigger. I mean, it could have been something from the bridge. Or someone could have thrown a rock, but I doubt it (it was POURING cold rain, and during school hours, and on highways). It wasn't on the correct side to have been kicked by the semi.

Still, if there's one thing I learned today, it's that I'm very fortunate. I was shaking and all freaked out, but the very first thing I said out loud was a praise and a thank you. A big one. Yikes.

I'm sorry it was dumdum day all around. Seems like lots of people threw money away today. Maybe it's some planetary thing. I'll ask my dad. ;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I didn't even have time to swerve or whatever. I didn't see the thing coming - I can thank the sheets of rain for that. I really didn't even know anything was coming toward me until I heard it hit and saw the big huge hole.

If it hadn't been for the rain and the reduced visibility, I might have.

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[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

I should have worn my tinfoil hat today.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You know, I think the visual I just got, with you drunk off your ass, wearing Lia's (or Pam's?) yellow Freddy Flintstone baseball cap with tin foil sticking out one side.

My goodness, that image is worth everything that happened today. I love you.

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[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

HAHA! I'd forgotten all about that.

Jesus, return policies and full coverage

[geekturtle.livejournal.com]

Did you have the magnetic Jesus on your dash? My grandfather had one in his Pinto. Is that when dashboards were made of steel? Anyway we would always say "You never crash with a plastic Jesus on yer dash". I don't think they make them anymore but maybe a holy air freshner to ward off flying objects.

As for you camera battery. Take the sucka back and exchange it for what you want. Power to the consumer. But sometimes it's not worth the trouble but you still need the right battery?

And I don't know if you have full coverage insurance, but I had my windshield broken( in KY) and found out if you have full coverage they will replace it without you paying the deductible. Something about safety and such. I know you are in Ohio and that is like a whole nother country and all so.....who knows.

Glad you are ok :)

[00solstice.livejournal.com]

dude, that is such a lame reason for not coming to lunch with us... couldn't you make up something a little more creative?!?

(i'm glad your okay)

xo.

[leoclaire.livejournal.com]

it makes me glad that you weren't hurt.

Re: Jesus, return policies and full coverage

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Nope, no Jesus in my car. Maybe my grandparents' saintly medallions are rubbing off on me or something. Either way, something was watching out for me. Eep!

And I can't return the battery because I opened the package. Phooey. Have to go back and get another one sometime soon, before the weekend. (I'd have to go anyway, the other battery I wanted was unfindable at the grocery store.)

Aah well. Life. It's fun, isn't it? :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You are one of the funniest people I know. I love you.

(you're)

Re: xo.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It makes me pretty glad, too! :)

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

i miss you

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

you get 1,000 points for not getting into an accident after that happened btw. i would have passed out had that happened, and killed myself in the process.

[mayna.livejournal.com]

Geez, I would've freaked out and started shaking.

If you think you got lucky, check out THIS post (from yesterday):
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=shockabra&itemid=41152

These things come in 3's... I hope that yours was the 3rd!

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Couple (No, not a couple, because I am OLD) years ago I was driving back from Woody's last NC party, and I was behind an 18-wheeler on the highway in Talladega, and the truck threw a tire. It was a good thing that I was following properly bcause if I'd been closer, it would have gone through the windshield, as it was, it just knocked the bumper askew.
But I didn't have an accident, either...maybe it has something to do with just being so stunned that you're too stunned to do anything abnormal.

I'm so glad you're okay!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

YIKES!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

When I drove from RI to LaGrange with Carol Jean and Mr. John Campbell, the Ryder truck ran over a couple of tires and tossed them back at Mama Hamilton's minivan, and we ended up doing a WHOLE LOTTA damage to it.

Oops.

I agree about the stunned thing. It just happens so damned fast.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Nah - you'd be amazed at what you can do.

My first coherent thought was just to keep on going to work.

[happy2beso.livejournal.com]

(you're)

Haha!

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

At the time, I didn't even think about pulling over. You know when you drive in the winter in Maine and there's all that salt and sand, and some car or truck spits a pebble up at you and makes a ding and you're just like, "crap!" and there's nothing you can do?

Yeah... and here in Colorado, it's like that all year-round with the sand. It's apparently too expensive to sweep the paved roads. They don't salt the roads here for some reason. (It's silly, especially when you look to the south of I-70 up near the Continental Divide and see near-dunes of sand from winters past.)

The only time anyone in my family stopped for anything dropping on the car was on I-64 in West Virginia when some idiot dropped an egg off an overpass. Even at 65 MPH, it mostly just damaged the paint, although the passenger window was open a titch so we got some goo on the upholstery. Dad would've gone back and found the perps, but two Mexicans against potentially many rednecks seemed like a bad idea. (We also had to be in Hell... er, Staunton the next day.)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

They don't sweep the roads in the spring? That's just nutty!