Oh, is today Friday the 13th...?

[lifeboat]

...because it never occurred to me at about 0630 this morning when I backed my brand new car into another vehicle on my way to work.

Son. of. a. BITCH!!!!

issed:


Stopping about three cars back from a red light, I was blocking the entrance to a gas station where a woman was trying to get out. So, being the nice guy that I am, and knowing full well that no one was behind me on the road, I threw it reverse real quick and backed up to let her out.

WHAM!!!

Turns out someone heading the opposite direction as me had turned left, right behind me, to go into the gas station. I never saw him. Backed right into his door. Crap.

Eh, shit happens.

No one was hurt and that's what insurance is for.

[Taur]

... that's what insurance is for.

No, that's what your rearview mirror is for! Glad no one was injured, lifeboat.

[Carolia]

Oh, yikes! The sound of your car hitting another car is just stomach-churning, especially if it's your fault. I'm glad nobody was hurt!

[lifeboat]

Originally Posted by Carolia

Oh, yikes! The sound of your car hitting another car is just stomach-churning, especially if it's your fault. I'm glad nobody was hurt!

Yup, and even though I had no idea what I hit when it happened, I knew it was completely my fault because I didn't turn my head to check behind me.

It sounded like a train-wreck, too. Oddly enough, this was the exact same spot where a train did wreck about two weeks ago. The road just opened up a few days ago.

It sounded worse than it was, however. I have scratches on my bumper, but the poor guy I hit will need a new door and quarter panel. But he was cool about it. Waiting for the cops he started chatting with me about the Bears game last night and the Bulls chances this year.

[Islander]

Wow. I wish everybody whose car I hit was that laid back.


Wait, I think I said that wrong....

[Falcon]

Originally Posted by lifeboat

YuIt sounded like a train-wreck, too. Oddly enough, this was the exact same spot where a train did wreck about two weeks ago. The road just opened up a few days ago.

I have decided it's dangerous to be in your vicinity. Trains wreck. Not once, but twice. Neighbors disappear under mysterious circumstances.

Any news on the neighbor? Any bodies discovered in the house? Or was it just full of trash?

Anyway, glad the accident wasn't worse!

[lifeboat]

Originally Posted by Falcon

I have decided it's dangerous to be in your vicinity. Trains wreck. Not once, but twice. Neighbors disappear under mysterious circumstances.

Any news on the neighbor? Any bodies discovered in the house? Or was it just full of trash?

Anyway, glad the accident wasn't worse!

I probably should have written that better - there was only one train wreck. I kept referring to the same incident in several ways. I'm not a very good writer.

On the neighbor front: No news on his whereabouts. However, for two days this week there were professional cleaners in the place throwing everything out. They filled up a huge 40-yard dumpster. As the townhouse was his property, and someone made the decision to go in there and clean the place, does that mean he was located? Did the county or city step in and take control? I don't know. Weird.

[Omegaman]

Yeah. Hide the wife and grease the cat's ass.

Fuckin' party time.

Fuck M' all big an small!

WOOT!!!

[Falcon]

Originally Posted by lifeboat

I probably should have written that better - there was only one train wreck. I kept referring to the same incident in several ways. I'm not a very good writer.

I wondered about the odds of having two train wrecks in the same city on the same day! Probably not your writing, but rather my overly-exhausted brain hampering comprehension. Work's been difficult the past couple of weeks.

Put it this way, when my furnace broke earlier this week, I told the repair folks that I needed someone to look at my air conditioning. :o

On the neighbor front: No news on his whereabouts. However, for two days this week there were professional cleaners in the place throwing everything out. They filled up a huge 40-yard dumpster. As the townhouse was his property, and someone made the decision to go in there and clean the place, does that mean he was located? Did the county or city step in and take control? I don't know. Weird.

Definitely quite weird. Have you tried Googling his name?

[lifeboat]

Originally Posted by Falcon

I wondered about the odds of having two train wrecks in the same city on the same day! Probably not your writing, but rather my overly-exhausted brain hampering comprehension. Work's been difficult the past couple of weeks.

Put it this way, when my furnace broke earlier this week, I told the repair folks that I needed someone to look at my air conditioning. :o



Definitely quite weird. Have you tried Googling his name?

I don't know his name - I'll ask my wife later today if she knows.

To me and the kids, he's simply known as The Missing Man. We know he drives a white van, so every time the kids see a white van they yell, "there's the missing man's van! There's the missing man's van!!"

Do you know how many white vans there are in the greater Chicago-land area? About every third vehicle from what I can tell.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by lifeboat

Do you know how many white vans there are in the greater Chicago-land area? About every third vehicle from what I can tell.

And they're always on the corner.

[Falcon]

Originally Posted by lifeboat

Do you know how many white vans there are in the greater Chicago-land area? About every third vehicle from what I can tell.

Sounds painful! Maybe it's time to hear that the missing man has painted his van blaze orange?

[Zeener Diode]

I was going to start a thread That Day's Number yesterday but thought I might be tempting fate. I tell myself, "it's just another day" and try to go about my business but I'm always looking around for something bad to happen. And to be honest, bad things happen on any given day, but when they happen on That Particular Day it gets remembered as The Bad Thing That Happened On That Particular Day.

FTR: I stubbed my big toe as I stepped into the shower yesterday. And I lost three straight rounds* of Texas Hold 'Em to a buddy. But those things could happen any day, right? Right?




*my buddy and me (and sometimes more) get together every other Friday after work to play mini-tournaments of Texas Hold 'Em, for $5 per round. I might lose two tourneys in a row, but rarely three straight.

[Uthrecht]

Friday the 13th? No worries, that was my settlement day. We just took ownership of a new townhouse. Then we had the fun part of moving. Just finished getting all the odds and ends out of the old place.