So, things have been pretty hectic lately, what with all the phone calls and trips to body shops and working 35-40 hours a week and helping friends who ALSO have car trouble. (At least Pearl is ready now, but I can’t go get her until Thursday, because of scheduling) I didn’t get the accident form filled out until this week, and with the accident having been on March 19, I had to get that off today. I had questions about it, so I had to call the insurance company, but the representative wasn’t available when I called. I ended up asking someone else there, just so I could get the form finished. Because my car is in my dad’s name, I had to have his signature on it, so I didn’t have the form finished until last night. Today, I went to the post office to overnight it to Montgomery. The guy in front of me went slow enough coming up to the light that I didn’t get to the turn before the oncoming light turned green, so I had to wait. I saw a hole in traffic that might work, so I started forward, reconsidered, and stopped to wait for the rest of the traffic to clear.

BAM!

I got rear-ended by a girl who apparently thought I’d gone ahead and gone, so she’d been looking at the oncoming traffic instead of looking where she was going. I was shaking again, and thoroughly frustrated. The irony of being hit again while on the way to mail the form from the last time…! Fortunately, she hadn’t had time to get up to any great speed, so there wasn’t any noticeable new damage. There’s a lot of minor damage on the back of that van already anyway, and I couldn’t tell if she’d added anything new or not. I was already on my cell phone talking to my mom (I’d called to find out if she wanted stamps while I was at the post office) so I was a bit distracted when it came to dealing with the other driver. She was profusely apologetic, but I don’t think I really looked at her much. I checked the back of the van and determined that there wasn’t any new damage that I could tell, nodded at her when she asked if I was all right, got back in the van and started back toward the post office.

At least the post office was not slammed busy; I was able to get my form mailed off (overnight is $14.50 - ouch!) and picked up a book of stamps. If I’d remembered the new Forever stamps were available, I probably would have picked up a roll of 100 - they’re pretty cool. Buy now, use forever. I like that, especially considering we don’t go through a lot of stamps anymore.

Anyway, I’m closing at work again tonight - and there’s another long story. Work has been crazy; I’m starting to wonder if it will ever settle down, or if I just need to find something a little less stressful. We’ll have to see.