My husband nonchalantly mentioned in our phone conversation this morning that he was in a car accident.
Before I commence frothing at the mouth, let me say that I am happy and relieved that neither her nor the person in the other car were hurt. The reason I get so worked up about his driving is that I worry that someday his carelessness will get him into an accident that will get him killed. His carelessness is unfair.
Now for the rant.
I'm a "retired" professional driver. I drove 18 wheelers OTR (cross country) for almost 8 years. By myself. I averaged 4-5000 miles a week, and never so much as scraped a bumper. I'm constantly on the lookout for what other drivers are doing and I leave myself an out. I don't participate in dangerous behavior like tailgating, speeding, or not using indicators. Like in the trucking world, to me there is almost no such thing as an accident that wasn't entirely the driver's fault. I have seen so many accidents over those hundreds of thousands of miles that resulted in people being hurt or killed, when just a little caution would have prevented the accident to begin with. It's such a waste.
I bought my car new in 2002. Nothing fancy, a nice silver little Ford ZX2. I haven't exactly babied it, but I have tried to take decent care of it. It just rolled over 30k miles last week. I've never put a scratch on it. Shawn took it to work one day a few months ago, and wrecked it. As he was coming up a hill with 4 lanes, he knew he had to be one more lane over to his right. There had been a cargo van there, and he claims that since he saw one that looked exactly like it go by in the far right lane he thought the guy had moved over for him. So of course when he moved right, BOOM. A second-long glance over his right shoulder to check the blind spot, or hell - even a look in the mirror would have prevented this. 2 months and $2500 worth of repairs later I get my car back. Thank goodness we kept full coverage on both our cars after they were paid off.
Today, he's sitting in a turn lane wanting to turn left. He swears he had a green arrow and that the lady coming from the opposite direction didn't stop for her red light. My question, and what gets my blood boiling, is why the hell didn't he think to himself, "wow, that lady's moving awfully fast, perhaps I should postpone my turn until I see whether or not she's going to stop". Nope, just pulled on out there and tore up the front of the Honda pretty good. Again, thank goodness for full coverage. But at what point will his carelessness cost us our insurance policy? We're already paying $200 a month on cars that have been paid off for a couple years. His nickname back home is Crash Lorrain for a reason, and I've worked hard to get his safety record up and our insurance rates down. Mostly by me driving everywhere we go together.
I need to take some deep breaths before I pop his head off when he gets home.
I love him, but sometimes I wanna hurt him.
Before I commence frothing at the mouth, let me say that I am happy and relieved that neither her nor the person in the other car were hurt. The reason I get so worked up about his driving is that I worry that someday his carelessness will get him into an accident that will get him killed. His carelessness is unfair.
Now for the rant.
I'm a "retired" professional driver. I drove 18 wheelers OTR (cross country) for almost 8 years. By myself. I averaged 4-5000 miles a week, and never so much as scraped a bumper. I'm constantly on the lookout for what other drivers are doing and I leave myself an out. I don't participate in dangerous behavior like tailgating, speeding, or not using indicators. Like in the trucking world, to me there is almost no such thing as an accident that wasn't entirely the driver's fault. I have seen so many accidents over those hundreds of thousands of miles that resulted in people being hurt or killed, when just a little caution would have prevented the accident to begin with. It's such a waste.
I bought my car new in 2002. Nothing fancy, a nice silver little Ford ZX2. I haven't exactly babied it, but I have tried to take decent care of it. It just rolled over 30k miles last week. I've never put a scratch on it. Shawn took it to work one day a few months ago, and wrecked it. As he was coming up a hill with 4 lanes, he knew he had to be one more lane over to his right. There had been a cargo van there, and he claims that since he saw one that looked exactly like it go by in the far right lane he thought the guy had moved over for him. So of course when he moved right, BOOM. A second-long glance over his right shoulder to check the blind spot, or hell - even a look in the mirror would have prevented this. 2 months and $2500 worth of repairs later I get my car back. Thank goodness we kept full coverage on both our cars after they were paid off.
Today, he's sitting in a turn lane wanting to turn left. He swears he had a green arrow and that the lady coming from the opposite direction didn't stop for her red light. My question, and what gets my blood boiling, is why the hell didn't he think to himself, "wow, that lady's moving awfully fast, perhaps I should postpone my turn until I see whether or not she's going to stop". Nope, just pulled on out there and tore up the front of the Honda pretty good. Again, thank goodness for full coverage. But at what point will his carelessness cost us our insurance policy? We're already paying $200 a month on cars that have been paid off for a couple years. His nickname back home is Crash Lorrain for a reason, and I've worked hard to get his safety record up and our insurance rates down. Mostly by me driving everywhere we go together.
I need to take some deep breaths before I pop his head off when he gets home.
I love him, but sometimes I wanna hurt him.
I've seen people doing some crazy things in their cars over the years.
