Hit and Run

Today I pulled into the driveway and as I was walking towards the front door, I noticed something laying out in the street in front of Gene’s car. The closer I got, I realized that it looked strangely like the yellow covering that goes over your turn signals on your vehicle. I started to panic and walked much faster and when I got to the road I realized what had happened. Of course, at this point I’m hoping that maybe someone just lost the cover of their car as they were driving by but I knew that was preposterous. So I turned to go around the other side of the car and this is what I find:

The only word to describe my thoughts is: PISSED. I started checking all the crevices of the car to see where THE NOTE IS. You know what I’m talkin’ about here.. The NOTE THAT YOU LEAVE WHEN YOU HIT SOMEONES CAR BAD ENOUGH TO CAUSE THIS KIND OF DAMAGE. The one that NICE people with COMMON COURTESY would leave. Does GOOD CITIZEN ring any bells here?

So we have no note. No nothing. We called insurance. Since Gene’s car is on it’s 857th life, we can’t really do much. We called the police and they came out to look at it. They asked the lady across the street if she knew anything and then when her husband got home she told him that she thought we suspected it was them. So he rang our doorbell to tell us they didn’t hit us. I tried to explain to him that we in no way suspected them at all. I mean, they are seriously like The Nicest People Ever in The Universe.

Why do these people do stupid stuff like this? They had to have been backing out or driving fast enough to cause METAL TO CHANGE FORM. This does not happen EASILY. You can’t bend metal by backing out of a driveway at 5 miles per hour or less. I am still really enraged. Trying to calm down here! And boy I’ll tell ya, it is not easy to have faith in the human race and people these days in general when stuff like this happens. How do you trust anyone anymore? I honestly just don’t know.

This is the kind of crap we have to deal with as we grow up. Growing up stinks, sometimes!