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ProfessorGAC

(75,279 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:14 AM Oct 27

So, How Has Your Day Been?

Hope well. Mine, not so much.
At around 6:50, I got a call from a school 18 miles away that they needed a 8th grade math sub. They start school at 7:45.
So, I hurry to get ready, jump in the car and head there. I called them at a red light letting them know I'd be there before the first class but not "on time".
As I'm turning down a lane in their parking lot, BAM!!!.
HS aged girl hits me broadside. Just jetted out of the spot she was in as I was turning.
Given the low speed, my door is pretty screwed up.
Hope your day has been better than mine.

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So, How Has Your Day Been? (Original Post) ProfessorGAC Oct 27 OP

That sucks, Perfessor! lastlib Oct 27 #1

Parking Lot Speeds ProfessorGAC Oct 27 #4

Better than yours. No good deed goes unpunished. surfered Oct 27 #2

Are you also available True Dough Oct 27 #3

Glad you're ok! berniesandersmittens Oct 27 #5

It's Worse! ProfessorGAC Oct 27 #7

That sucks, I was recently in a car crash too. Rizen Oct 27 #6

What a shame. Going to do something good and Bam. Hope you weren't injured. Fla Dem Oct 27 #8

Nah! ProfessorGAC Oct 27 #9

Still sorry for ANY damage you may have incurred, but glad you suffered no physical damage. Fla Dem Oct 27 #10

lastlib

(27,164 posts)

1. That sucks, Perfessor!

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:32 AM

Oct 27

Sorry you're having such a "fun" Monday. Hope you're not hurt! I hope you both have good insurance.

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ProfessorGAC

(75,279 posts)

4. Parking Lot Speeds

Reply to lastlib (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:35 PM

Oct 27

Nothing close to injuries. But, the car, while still drivable without issue, doesn't look yo good.

surfered

(10,367 posts)

2. Better than yours. No good deed goes unpunished.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 12:08 PM

Oct 27

Glad you weren’t hurt. Hope it all works out.

True Dough

(25,178 posts)

3. Are you also available

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 12:45 PM

Oct 27

as a driver's education instructor?

Hope the insurance/repair hassle is only a mild headache and not an extremely aggravating one.

berniesandersmittens

(12,863 posts)

5. Glad you're ok!

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 02:28 PM

Oct 27

At least it wasn't your fault. Bet she'll check twice before backing out from now on. Too bad her learning experience was at your expense.

ProfessorGAC

(75,279 posts)

7. It's Worse!

Reply to berniesandersmittens (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 03:47 PM

Oct 27

She was going forward! She simply drove into a car that was right in front of her going only 4 or 5mph.

Rizen

(993 posts)

6. That sucks, I was recently in a car crash too.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 02:31 PM

Oct 27

Last Thursday I was driving on the freeway and someone tried to merge into me. I swerved left to try to avoid them but my car spun out at 65mph and crashed into the median. I walked away with no serious injuries but my car was totaled and I didn't have collision insurance so I'm screwed without a car for a while.

Fla Dem

(27,313 posts)

8. What a shame. Going to do something good and Bam. Hope you weren't injured.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 05:36 PM

Oct 27

ProfessorGAC

(75,279 posts)

9. Nah!

Reply to Fla Dem (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 06:00 PM

Oct 27

I was only going a couple mph coming out of a right turn; in a school parking lot.
And, she wasn't in the parking space I was going by. She was the next one back.
She still hit me hard enough to put a little hole in my passenger side door.
But, still not fast enough to cause injury. My suspension absorbed half the impact. It wouldn't have knock a vase over.
Still, my car doesn't look great.

Fla Dem

(27,313 posts)

10. Still sorry for ANY damage you may have incurred, but glad you suffered no physical damage.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #9)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 06:58 PM

Oct 27

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