THIS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

Today is not a happy day for the Shababbler. To be quite honest, I'm rather unhappy. I woke up this morning at 9:30 to the doorbell ringing and then knocking blasting away. I thought it would be my roommate's parents because, even though she is never here, they often come over on Sundays to do her gardening. Instead it was my neighbor, greeting me in my pjs on this drizzly morning with the news that my soccer-mom car had just been side-swiped by a hit and run driver =-(. He heard the brakes, the crash and then the acceleration - but by the time he was able to look all he saw was the car behind. Brilliant. I went out and took in the damage. Ya - it could be worse - but for everyone who feels like that is an appropriate comment to make - GO BITE YOURSELF!!!!! Deep breath, deep breath.....I'm not taking it out on you, dear reader, but since similar comments have been made to me today, I'm finding it pretty damn annoying! Because they're really probably thinking "Could have been worse" - followed by the unspoken - thank goodness that didn't happen to me!

So there's about two feet in the back that is completely scraped up and some places where the paint is even down to the metal, and the side reflector light was busted and broken out. My tire was thrashed from the experience and I just had to spend about $80 at Costco to get their cheapest replacement for my wheel =-(. That may not seem like a lot of money to many of you, but to me it's a helluva lot and that $80 really could have gone toward something else....like oh, I don't know.....rent maybe. And - to make matters worse - even if I had the money for the deductible (which I don't) - I couldn't claim it anyways because they'd want to know why the hell I was up here and hadn't switched my coverage yet - I don't even think they'd be legally required to pay for it.

Had I expected something like this would happen (I was naive) - I certainly wouldn't have been parking on the main street in front (that I thought was safer because it was well-lit) when I could have been parking in the ominous back alley area. In the close to three years my roommate has lived here nothing like this has ever happened to her's or her family's cars, but when I started talking to the neighbor he started telling me about all of these houses whose cars had been hit =-(.

So I'm an extremely unhappy camper today, and even though it could have been worse, it still sucks that it happened at all. And when I spoke with one of my friends, the comment that was uttered from their lips was "It's only a car." Although this was over the phone, I could literally see the shoulders shrug with a lack of concern. This person went on to make another comment, which I didn't hear, and when I asked what they had said they responded with "never mind" - so I'm assuming it was another patronizing comment. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......so keep your "It's only a car" and "It could have been worse" comments to yourself because, quite frankly, I'm not in the mood for that!