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this morning i got my license, something i looked forward to for three years. So far, it was a great day, but this afternoon, while pulling into the gas station some old man chased after a dollar he dropped on the ground, i swerved to miss him and ran my car directly into a pepsi sign. Now my front fender is smashed. By far worst day of my life

Well, you're okay, the old guy's okay, so not too bad, eh?

Could have been worse, you could have hit him and/or someone could have been hurt.

everyone is fine, but still it scared me, what if i didnt see the guy in time. It's not like i was speeding through the station, the guy justran out in front of me, i wasnt mad at him, he didnt know i was pulling in but, dang my car is messed up pretty bad and its gonna cost alot of money to get it fixed.

what kind of car?

In an ideal world you'd have been able to fun the fether over, but alas this is not the case :(

Tough break on the damage; again, another ideal world would have the old guy shell out for the repairs, but that's not the case either :(

Too many ideal worlds that aren't this one :|

Shame to hear about wrecking your car. Everyone has a bingle when they're young though, it sucks but you kind of have to go through it.

Still, doing it on the first day makes for an interesting story, yeah?

Congrats on the license first of all!
now i know it didn't go the way you planned, but it ended much better than it could have.
sucks about the car damage, but it's easier to fix than a person. and look at it this way, it's
bound to happen sooner or later. you just got it out of the way sooner! now you're free to
roll on along!

JFizzle51 wrote:everyone is fine, but still it scared me, what if i didnt see the guy in time. It's not like i was speeding through the station, the guy justran out in front of me, i wasnt mad at him, he didnt know i was pulling in but, dang my car is messed up pretty bad and its gonna cost alot of money to get it fixed.

You did see him, so don't worry about it.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Better to get it out of the way early on. Means you will drive more carefully from now on (even if this was not your fault) and so will be less likely to have an accident in the future.

But it is a shame you messed up the car to do it.

If a minor fender bender is the worst day of your life, you have had a charmed life.


In one day of ops in Sierra Leone I found a guy tied to a tree with a tyre melted over his face, got a dear john letter off my girlfriend and had to pull a leech off my balls. And it was merely a pretty gak day.

There's also a few thousand Japanese people floating in the ocean, let's not forget them.

Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

At least you got your first car accident out of the way pretty quick

mattyrm wrote:Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

Your stories are always so interesting

Have you thought about doing a Chris Ryan and put out a book? I'd buy it

SilverMK2 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

Your stories are always so interesting

Have you thought about doing a Chris Ryan and put out a book? I'd buy it

Sweet Jesus And Mary Chain, it'd be like Sid the Sexist crossed with 'Bravo Two Zero'!

JFizzle51 wrote:everyone is fine, but still it scared me, what if i didnt see the guy in time. It's not like i was speeding through the station, the guy justran out in front of me, i wasnt mad at him, he didnt know i was pulling in but, dang my car is messed up pretty bad and its gonna cost alot of money to get it fixed.

Could have been worse. Could have got raped.



Just sayin'.

Albatross wrote:Sweet Jesus And Mary Chain, it'd be like Sid the Sexist crossed with 'Bravo Two Zero'!

I have to say that I was thinking about something along the lines of "Viz goes to war!"

Albatross wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

Your stories are always so interesting

Have you thought about doing a Chris Ryan and put out a book? I'd buy it

Sweet Jesus And Mary Chain, it'd be like Sid the Sexist crossed with 'Bravo Two Zero'!

JFizzle51 wrote:everyone is fine, but still it scared me, what if i didnt see the guy in time. It's not like i was speeding through the station, the guy justran out in front of me, i wasnt mad at him, he didnt know i was pulling in but, dang my car is messed up pretty bad and its gonna cost alot of money to get it fixed.

Could have been worse. Could have got raped.



Just sayin'.

Yup, that old man could have orchestrated the whole thing in an elaborate rape trap.

Karon wrote:Yup, that old man could have orchestrated the whole thing in an elaborate rape trap.

What he didn't see however was the "ice cream truck" the old man was refueling on one of the other pumps before he spotted a chance to have some fun...

I feel sorry for the innocent Pepsi sign, there it is trying its hardest to get noticed by passers by, only to be brutally and without any warning run down.

Alas poor Pepsi sign, no more shall we see your neons lighting up the night on that lonely forecourt.

Karon wrote:

Albatross wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

Your stories are always so interesting

Have you thought about doing a Chris Ryan and put out a book? I'd buy it

Sweet Jesus And Mary Chain, it'd be like Sid the Sexist crossed with 'Bravo Two Zero'!

JFizzle51 wrote:everyone is fine, but still it scared me, what if i didnt see the guy in time. It's not like i was speeding through the station, the guy justran out in front of me, i wasnt mad at him, he didnt know i was pulling in but, dang my car is messed up pretty bad and its gonna cost alot of money to get it fixed.

Could have been worse. Could have got raped.



Just sayin'.

Yup, that old man could have orchestrated the whole thing in an elaborate rape trap.

Yeah, go ahead. Blame the victim.

POW!

I'm going to be sensible here, and again state that everyone was o.k and no one was injured, that's a plus, you had your first minor fender bender and in the scheme of things it wasn't too bad, you didn't get smashed up or raped by an old man who sells ice creams, that is also a plus! you will now drive with this in your mind so you'll be safer on the road and you'll get your car fixed eventually! all good

You get 100 points for an old timer! How did you even get a license?

SilverMK2 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

Your stories are always so interesting

Have you thought about doing a Chris Ryan and put out a book? I'd buy it

Ive got some even better ones than that, but I risk an instant ban and a war crimes tribunal.

Seriously though, man the feth up son.

Thats it? I've wrecked my dads car once, and my own has lost the same headlight twice, in about a month. Bloody tree, and bloody guard rail >_<

Feth rain.

SilverMK2 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:Self pity is for girls! Pull yourself together son!

Your stories are always so interesting

Have you thought about doing a Chris Ryan and put out a book? I'd buy it

I can beat this story, though not in terms of crappiness. It involves last night, Lady Gaga and two lesbians.

@OP: Just try not to let it shake your confidence. I know it can be crappy to have a little scrape early on, but the best thing to do is just keep driving.

Doesn't everything you say involve lady gaga?

I ran over an old guy one night when I was young.

He was riding his bike on the side walk (which is illegal here) and I was turning right onto a one way road. So I was mostly looking left. A spot opened up on the road. I pulled forward just as the old guy rode across the road in front of me coming from the right.

Bam, old guy on my hood.

He hopped off the hood grabbed his bike off the front of my car (it was just leaning against it) threw his bike about 20ft across the road, starting jumping up and down, shaking his fist screaming at me. I looked over at my friend said "he looks fine!" and put 20ft of rubber down on the road as I peeled out of there. (BACK when LAF plates were legal)

Wow, that's a dick move. XD

Never hit someone with my car.

I've been hit by cars 7 times now. My friends tell me I have a magnetic personality ._.

I've actually somersaulted over a hood once when I was hit by a car going about 60km/h. (it was not an active movement, it was because of the way it hit me) Somehow, I landed on my feet on the other side, ran back home screaming, coming home with not even a bruise, the cars hood was severely dented. (I was 8 or 9 years old )

mattyrm wrote:Ive got some even better ones than that, but I risk an instant ban and a war crimes tribunal.

Just bill the book as "fiction" and change a few names

Soladrin wrote:Wow, that's a dick move.

Karma, 2yrs later I was run down on purpose by a guy I worked with.