Today’s traffic wasn’t that bad, ‘I might actually get to work on time today’, I thought, sitting in my car waiting for the cars to move forward on Long Island Expressway around exit 41S. The car in front of me started moving when I heard the sound of a crash behind me, BOOM! I saw through the rear view mirror a white SUV jerking forward a few cars behind me, and I heard the subsequent series of a car bumping into another one coming closer and closer while I looked for a way out, slowly moving forward following the car in front of me. There was no way out. The next boom was the sound of my car getting hit. I was rear ended. The car in front of me escaped this 5-car pile up and my car was in the front of the pile up. ‘Crud. I should have passed that car when I had the chance’, I thought looking longingly at the rear of the car driving away from me, since then I would have escaped this accident.

It’s a pretty funny feeling knowing that I’m going to be in an accident a few seconds ahead, see it and hear it coming, but there is nothing I can do to avoid it. That kinda shook me up. And I sat there shaking for a couple of minutes. Fortunately I’m not hurt, no bumps, no whiplash, no nothing, my head didn’t even jerk. The only thing messed up is the rear bumper of my car, which is bent a little – my car being a Jeep Wrangler, the front part of the car behind me looked pathetic having said hello to my Wrangler’s steel bumper. Other than the bent bumper, there is not one scratch as the result of this accident.

The idiot who started the pile up obviously wasn’t paying attention since there was no excuse for it – there was no hard break involved. I didn’t even get a good look at the idiot or his car since the cops showed up surprisingly fast and directed everybody to stay in the car. Now I’m left with the hassle of going to the police precinct and pay $10 to get the accident report, and contacting the idiot’s insurance company next week and getting the bumper fixed.

I need a vacation.