Ow, my neck!

I dropped off all the kids today, as I normally do on school days. The Boy first, then the little boy at daycare. Then the daughter and I went to get some gas - I was down to half a gallon left. Finally, we go to her bus stop, which is fun in a car with no heat. Anyway, we get her dropped off, I head back to the apartments. Due to timing, if I get to the complex a minute or two later than normal, I end up having to wait for the middle school kids to get picked up by their buses, which happened today, so I'm stuck about 30 feet from the entrance to the complex, with two cars in front of me. Well, as I'm standing still, since I can't go anywhere, the car in front of me decides it might be a good idea to put her car in reverse and back up. At first, I think she's just going to go back a few inches, and then I realize she ain't stopping. And sure enough, she backs right into my car, which was at a complete standstill. I had tried putting it in reverse, but being an Escort, it doesn't respond to desperate pleading, so I hit the horn, which sounded pretty much at the same time the car made contact with mine.

Of course, the lady doesn't speak English, doesn't have insurance, doesn't want me to call the police because she has other tickets, and wants to pay for my damage - which fortunately is rather light - just a broken bumper and a scraped up turn signal. She looks at it and suggests to her friend that it might cost about $50-60. Her friend, apparently a little more pragmatic, said it would probably cost a couple hundred. In the meantime, I now have to miss half a day of school to go get my car's damage estimated so I can get the money from her so I can get it fixed, which I don't want to do because it's an Escort, and I still hold out hope that you good readers will surprise me with my graduation present.

I hate my car.