I was leaving campus to go to work and some idiot ran a red light and hit me right in the rear fender. I was so mad that I had to sit in my car and count to about 50 I think it was. I wanted to get out and rip him a new one for being so stupid but then I saw it was a young mother and she was coming up to me with a baby in her arms to see if I was okay. I think I scared her when I didn’t hop right out.
I felt so sorry for her because she was crying her eyes out and kept asking me if I was okay and if I was sure I was okay. She said that her baby had been crying and crying and she was headed to her mothers. She had taken her eyes off of the road to glance back at the baby and see if she could soothe him and that must be when the light changed. Her car wasn’t much and I bet she was struggling just to make ends meet. I felt like a dog for pulling out without looking better myself.
I told her that I would tell the cops that I pulled out to make a right turn and didn’t see her and it would be my fault then and not hers. I figured I could afford the raise in insurance better than she could. Besides, that way, my insurance company would fix her car too. I didn’t know if she had enough insurance to fix her car or if she had a high deductible so she could afford insurance at all.
Yeah, Yeah, that was my good deed for the day. Now to explain it to my parents. They won’t be mad though because we have Nationwide insurance and they’re really easy to deal with on things like this. I had to help her out. If that had been my mother when I was a baby, I would like to think that there was someone out there that would have done the same thing for her. Besides, we’re supposed to help each other.