klwilliams

I love my car. I bought it new 17 years ago, and it runs great (mostly). I realize that with slightly over 225,000 miles on it I'm going to need a new one fairly soon, but even though I've started saving a new car just isn't my budget. Today, with that in mind, I went a slightly longer yet safer way to head to work, and found myself stopped at a red light at a big intersection close to work. I mention this because had I gone the regular way I would have missed the red light and not been there.

I was sitting at the red light minding my own business when I looked up and thought, "Those two cars are going to hit--" and then I saw the two cars spinning in circles across the intersection. I thought, "I hope those two cars don't hit me" milliseconds before they did, in fact, slide into me.

My car is the white one on the left.

Only the front left fender and the bumper are damaged, but my car is 17 years old. The insurance adjuster was nice, but she said it's very likely that once the other two finish fighting over who was at fault they're going to want to claim my car isn't worth fixing. I may be getting a new car sooner rather than later. We'll see.

I, by the way, am fine, though a little shell-shocked.