Thursday, January 07, 2010

One of the Stupider Things I've Had To Do in Awhile

On September 25th I was running errands on the way home from work and was stopped at a traffic light.  when I heard a loud crash in my car.  The car jerked forward and bumped the car that was stopped in front of mine.

"What the hell?!" I hollered at my rear view mirror.  I got out of the car, and some punk kid driving the car that rear-ended mine was freaking out in the middle of oncoming traffic.

"OhmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodareyouOK?" he blurted out.  I convinced him to get out of traffic and told him I was fine.  We swapped information.  Two weeks later my car was fixed.  Then the insurance settled the claim.  On Friday I was on a desk cleaning binge and I happened to have tossed out the address and insurance information from the guy who had hit me.

Then in Saturday's mail I got a letter from the state of RI.  Inside was a long form, on that ridiculoulsy long paper that you'd find in the bottom drawer of the printer at work.  It was printed double-sided.  There was a cover letter inside the envelope that says "You need to fill out this accident report.  If you don't we'll suspend your license and make you pay $76.50 to get it back." 

Here it is three months later, and I am under threat to have my driver's license revoked because some jackass wasn't paying attention and slammed into the back of my car.  And the only reason why I am filling out this stupid form (no, I don't know the guy's VIN number.  Really?  You think I know that?) is because I really like my license picture.

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