Backed into a superior’s car in the parking lot at my job, after a 10 hour night shift and a 1-and-a-half hour meeting. Insurance exchanged. Cops called. She tried to calm me down but I am so beat up about it and feel like an absolute idiot. Occasionally having to stifle tears. Looks like minor paint damage but with these shitty plastic builds who knows. Have liability insurance. My car got the worst of it, but idgaf about cosmetic damage. I just hate that in my sleep deprived state I was forced to get into that death-trap by the way our infrastructure is set up and wound up in my first collision in my life. No one hurt, she wasn’t in the car at the time. At home but still on edge as fuck. I can’t let something so dumb make me destitute again.

Have any of you been in a minor scrape like this? At-fault or otherwise? Did it go ok? I’d appreciate experiences in part so I feel less like a total dumbass.

  • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    If feeling less of a dumbass is what you want. You shall recieve:

    spoiler

    I’ve probably gotten into roughly a dozen or two dozen tiny collisions like this, a half dozen to a dozen medium ones and 3 much more severe ones.

    Luckily, all 3 of the severe ones range from: not my fault at all, less than half my fault, and not my fault at all.

    The minor ones? Well…lol. Let’s just say that I drive a manual and forgot for a while repeatedly to engage the parking break…that accounts easily for half of them 😅

    Another third were just me driving like a dipshit or an asshole. The former because I’m stoned and on my phone or the latter because I’m impatient and/or thrill seeking.

    I DoorDash for a living from about 2020 to probably at least 6 months from now so I am on the road a LOT and have eaten up a LOT of miles. My car is in ribbons and held together by zip ties and super glue.

    So, please. Know there is much worse. Most normal people I know have gotten into little parking lot shit at least once, twice, three times. I can only imagine the intense stress that I would feel if this occured to someone such as my work superior, or someone in a similar position of power over me. But if she says it really is fine and to not worry I would try as best as you can to do so.

    Some minor PTSD from car mishaps is normal (don’t even get me started about when I hit a deer), so if you get flustered or shit in parking lots in the future don’t be hard on yourself and just know it’ll abate as time passes.

    I don’t know your personal situation but I would seriously just assume that it’s not a big deal and that you’ll be able to forget about it within a month. If her damage is minimal I wouldn’t worry too much payment wise. Best of luck, and remember this is much more common than you would think. There are piece of shit douchebags like me on the road doing more than our fair share, you are not one of them for one small mistake, very very normal.