but here’s the latest: when last we visited, i had been scammed by a woman at a stoplight at the end of a freeway offramp, who threw on her breaks when the light turned green so that I might run into her, which i barely avoided doing since i take my foot off the brake when lights turn green, but still hadn’t put it on the gas, so i was able to avoid actual collision, just kissing the back of her bumper, which didn’t seem to matter to her since she still set up a hue and cry and called her husband on her cel phone and handed the phone to me while the sherriffs came to see why there was a snafu at the offramp and were so bemused they just moved her off to the nearest parking lot and handed her a form, since there was absolutely no damage, at which point i became more aware of things beyond the absurdity of the situation and used the camera i always carry for my art practices to take pictures of the rear end of her car, which had absolutely no damage, and filled out the papers and left, only to receive a call from my insurance company a couple of days later that she was not only claiming, but claiming bodily injury, at which i emailed them the photos of her car which i had taken at the scene and they sent somebody out to take pictures of my car, which also showed no damage, no marks at all really beyond what scratches one might expect in 2005 on the bumper of a 1999 car, which bumper is set to crumple completely at impact of merely 3 miles per hour yet showed no eidence of any hit at all, because there was none, and then i decided to forget about it because if this woman wants to sue there’s not much i can do about it, which turns out to be correct as today i got a message on my answering machine that my insurance company wants to talk to me before sending me a letter, which doesn’t sound good at all, and so i am prepared to have everything taken away from me for this thing i didn’t do and to be able, at last, to start again (again) from scratch somewhere else; please?
but here’s the latest: when last we visited, i had been scammed by a woman at a stoplight at the end of a freeway offramp, who threw on her breaks when the light turned green so that I might run into her, which i barely avoided doing since i take my foot off the brake when lights turn green, but still hadn’t put it on the gas, so i was able to avoid actual collision, just kissing the back of her bumper, which didn’t seem to matter to her since she still set up a hue and cry and called her husband on her cel phone and handed the phone to me while the sherriffs came to see why there was a snafu at the offramp and were so bemused they just moved her off to the nearest parking lot and handed her a form, since there was absolutely no damage, at which point i became more aware of things beyond the absurdity of the situation and used the camera i always carry for my art practices to take pictures of the rear end of her car, which had absolutely no damage, and filled out the papers and left, only to receive a call from my insurance company a couple of days later that she was not only claiming, but claiming bodily injury, at which i emailed them the photos of her car which i had taken at the scene and they sent somebody out to take pictures of my car, which also showed no damage, no marks at all really beyond what scratches one might expect in 2005 on the bumper of a 1999 car, which bumper is set to crumple completely at impact of merely 3 miles per hour yet showed no eidence of any hit at all, because there was none, and then i decided to forget about it because if this woman wants to sue there’s not much i can do about it, which turns out to be correct as today i got a message on my answering machine that my insurance company wants to talk to me before sending me a letter, which doesn’t sound good at all, and so i am prepared to have everything taken away from me for this thing i didn’t do and to be able, at last, to start again (again) from scratch somewhere else; please?