[CivRacer95]

July 10, 2005. At approximately 2:20 PM things went wrong for me. Please, this is quite an interesting tale, take the time to read it.

It was what seemed to be another beautiful, sunny day here in Utah. I was meeting up with friends at Carls Jr. I had just gotten ready. Took my car to Chevron to gas up, and even decided to give the Civ a nice little car wash. Life was peachy. Everything was going right up until the incident.

I left to Carls Jr. a little early, just to cruise around for a while. I took a little detour before I went to Carls and decided to take the long way back around. I was just heading back to Carls and I was going to hop back on to University and head towards my destination. I pulled behind a pretty good looking 2002 BMW 325i (which I later discovered what it was) who was signalling in my same direction. Him ahead, and me just following up. Traffic was clear in the left direction. So it appeared that he took off. So I looked left, signalling, I decided to take off as well. Well, to my surprise he had stopped no more than 5 feet ahead of me. I had no reaction time at all to stop for him. And it just happened. "BAM!!"

My body shook for a moment, my head jerked, and there he was. Right in front of me. I was puzzled as to why he stopped and my first thought was "WTF??". Seconds later, a group of small ducks were seen crossing in front of him. He stopped for a group of fucking ducks. I got screwed over by fucking ducks. Oh how I just wanted to run them over at that moment. But my attention immediately turned to him, wondering if he was alright. I hopped out of my car and asked him to pull ahead because we were blocking traffic behind us. As soon as he hopped out of his car, I was a little relieved.

My buddy James' old roommate, Paul, a man I have met a few times was right there in front of me. He noticed me right away as well, and we shook hands. I apologized numerous times to him, because he had just purchased the car a few months previous to our incident. He was very calm about it, cool, and we decided to call the police and notify our insurance agencies. The damage on my car wasn't nearly bad enough. Although his car, well, let's just say the damages were worth more than my car. Although, there are some other things that played out in this scenario.

The officer who took down our info called Paul back to his car. It appeared that his liscense was suspended at the time of the incident. I don't know for how long, or why, but it didn't seem good for him at all. He was cited right on the spot, but luckily his girlfriend showed up to drive him away from the scene. Me on the other hand. Well, for me my insurance is going to sail back up. I was very delighted a few weeks ago to find that my insurance payments had dropped by nearly $50. Now this isn't going to help me at all. It's going to shoot back up again.

A few things are for sure, my plan for an H22 is going to be delayed. I'm going to be paying a butt load of insurance. The damages on my car will need to be fixed. And, I plan on taking a road trip back to see my sister the beginning of August. So, I can just see it all as one big pile of shit getting dumped all over my head. Ah life, I guess you just have to roll along with the punches. Although, as far as this incidents goes. I don't know how it's going to pan out. He shouldn't have been driving in the first place, too. The insurance agencies haven't contacted either of us yet at all.

What I did find funny however, is that Paul was going to pick up James, a good friend of mine, from Church. And James, along with a few other friends, were who I was going to be meeting at Carls Jr. Ironic isn't it? Well, it was all too funny to each of us when I heard about this from James. If only Paul didn't have to pick up James from church, this wouldn't have happened I guess. But, things happen for a reason I guess. Enjoy!!...wait...no don't enjoy....