Crunch
My poor car got rear-ended last night while I was heading back (early) from the gym. That will teach me to be tired and lazy.
Houston’s Finest (there is a finger-shaped deformity in the city limits to ensure “Space City” includes NASA) left me out in the cold in my sweaty gym shorts for about an hour before a tow truck driver informed my new compadre and me that we could just drive to the station.
We had caught a shift change, which is apparently the point in time where only police interest is served and protected.
We formed a two-car caravan and drove down the street to the station, where we were made to wait five minutes in the lobby before being handed police report forms. There was no officer involvement throughout. We weren’t even allowed to turn in the form at the station.
The damage dealer (+2 Decimator of Bumper, Chevy Class, 5d20 + Dark Bonus) was a rental, and phone support from all involved parties was patently useless.
I did learn that I do a lot of reasoned things unconsciously when under shock. Upon impact, I emitted what might be classed as a bass clef transposition of the Macaulay Culkin Home Alone “Ahhhhhhh!” (no face slapping). After taking account of my situation, my car was in park, my radio was turned down, and I was rolling down my window to direct traffic while checking in the rear-view to see if the driver was okay.
She was just scared.
So, bah. I have to go get fingerprinted and ID’ed today to help Secure our Homeland, which will take some time. I’m on a business trip from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning. Hopefully the body shop and rental car process will be a smooth one. Perhaps I’ll be rolling in Impala in no time flat.
I wonder if liability insurance pays for dubs.
Work continues to evolve into programming and ever-more-sophisticated Excel work. I’m starting to think we should require a class in “standard” string services, conditionals, variables, and flow logic as a math class in most college programs. This would be stuff like substrings, strlen(), and if-statements. Since we even have access to those features as Excel functions, it’s getting pretty important.