i've been in a car accident....

I'm extremely glad you are intact. That's awful. I hope you had no emotional attachment to the poor contraption.

Clearly this is because earlier today I thought, out of nowhere, "you know what band nobody has mentioned in my presence lately? Cannibal Corpse."

get & be well, N

glad to hear yr ok, car accidents are scary

thanks all. neck pain is better, actually was never that bad. found a degenerative disc condition in my neck but I'm willing to bet they would have found that pre-accident too.

psychologically, I was initially a mess, but had so many friends call me to check on me.

this work project is cursed. the following has happened to members of my team:

Original analyst (which is my job) got laid off
Domain mgr had to go on leave due to boyfriend w/ life-threatening condition
Customer service manager totaled *HIS* car falling asleep at the wheel last weekend
now I wrecked mine

there's only one dude left who has gotten away scot free.

Clearly that guy should just not leave whatever room he's in. Glad you're in one piece for sure.

Glad you're doing alright man

his insurance accepted liability. score.

my pain is gone. my neck is resilient.

Headbanging strengthens the neck muscles! \m/

haha i did joke to my friends that I expected the injuries I sustained on Friday night, but that I got them from a different activity than originally planned

got new wheels. fatigue has been a huge problem since the accident. neck doesn't hurt but definitely feels 'crick'-y at times.

still...good week considering.

this blows

i was rear-ended last wednesday. i suffered a concussion, was home resting pretty much all last week

the insurance rep called me this week and lets me know that my car (that i just spent $1800 on repairs 5 days before the accident) has been deemed a total loss. they will only pay for my rental car for 10 days. i haven't even thought for a second about buying a new car, a decision i thought i wouldn't have to make for another 3-5 years and would be able to spend months researching. now i have 10 days to do it!

Jeez. What a horrible mess!

yea it is a bummer. it was my first car too. wasn't ready to say goodbye to it

that's a bit of a pisser but physically i hope you're okay now marcos

fuck that suuuucks marcos :(

thanks everybody. i'm feeling better and as far as car accidents go a minor concussion ain't too bad. it could've been worse. i am just so bummed about the administrative hassle of having to deal with this. big purchases suck.

Fuck, best wishes

marcos, if you want me to hook you up w/someone who works in new car sales let me know. I have a friend who can help you out - he's sold cars to several of my friends and will give you a good deal. He works at a dealership down in Hudson.

good to know, thanks phil! i'll likely be buying a used car - when i said "new" i guess i meant to new to me :) if i change my mind tho i'll let u know thru ilx mail!

man sorry about that marcos. I'm still dealing with the admin issues of mine (mostly the medical bills)....Really really fuckin sucks too when you just sunk a fortune into repairing it :(....

yea that is the worst part i think? i had put off repairs for like a year and then finally did them, all a bunch of small things, new tires, etc. hopefully i can recoup some of that but idk

one very small silver lining is that i will finally get a car with an aux port or usb or whatever. i still buy cds because my car doesn't have a tape deck or an aux port

SO GOODBYE CDS

(though i will probably still buy them)

When did the USB/AUX port become standard? I drive a 2001 civic so I have no clue what is standard with newer cars.

Anyway, it sucks you have to deal with that over a short-term. I get anxious having to rush through big-purchase decisions that you know are going to affect you for years to come.

usb/aux been standard for like 5-6 years at least.

many new cars don't have cd players which really fucks me up.

lol marcos I was kinda happy to get a new one with Bluetooth as I'd pretty much been USBing all my music in the old car as I tend to lose CDs very easily.

the money you spent on repairs should increase of ACV of the car that they give you, not necessarily by that amount, but it'll help. do you know if you'll be getting more than you owed on the car? that's always nice when you can use it for a down payment.

thankfully i paid it off already which helps a lot

Oh def

um

fuck my life

oh no

i bought a new car 3 weeks ago and got into another accident this morning

i am okay but like FUCKING HELL ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Holy shit, dude.

glad you're ok. how is the car?

thank you. car has huge deep scratches on the whole passenger side and veers left when I drive it. alloy wheel has half-inch gashes in it

as deeply annoying as that accident is, it's nothing at all compared to your being physically intact. pilots say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. they're right.

aww geezus man. that was my biggest fear after my last wreck. the stress of two back to back in short time is hard to deal with.

glad you're ok, but sorry you have another PITA in your life

<3 marcos that sucks so much, glad yr ok

thank you guys <3

so stressful. i'm stressed out of my mind. because i am a serial procastinator i hadn't yet put my new car under the policy, i thought i was within a 30-day grace period but the period is only 14 days, so my insurance co doesn't want to pay for it. im trying to work something out with them but FUCK ARE YOU SERIOUS ugh

i feel like im gonna post in the lump thread. everything sucks right now, this is such a burden that i don't feel like i can handle becaues a whole bunch of other shit is happening that i can't deal with

life is stressful and expensive

agreed :(

So what happened?

made a left hand turn and didn't see a car turning right from the curb lane. wasn't going fast but the collision was a slow deep grind

ugh, I'm sorry, marcos

for what it's worth I had nearly a decade of no car drama (outside of a poor raccoon that popped up on the interstate) and once I got a different car several years ago, I had *three* incidents within one year.

one was purely me and caused no damage to the other car, one was a dumb parking lot thing where I was 3/4 of the way out of the spot and stopped looking in the rearview just long enough for a lady to back out where I was moving, and for the coup de grace, I had my car parked on the street and someone sideswiped my front fender overnight and left no note

it's been smooth sailing since then, so maybe it's a jinxed period of time. it'll stop!

ha definitely feels jinxed for sure

one good thing is that I read my insurance policy and the guy I talked to was most certainly wrong in telling me that the new car wasn't covered yet

I was right on the 30 days

get on that quicker in the future!

I think when I got this car I was paranoid enough about it that I’d logged into my insurance company’s website and added the new car to my policy by the time they’d finished pulling it around for pickup at the dealer

lol i did that

buddy it’s the US of A, you have one thing happen when you’re not covered on some sort of insurance and you’re fucked for life

well more so on health insurance but point stands