new york gets some credit

have i mentioned that i really, really, really love public transportation?

last night i went downtown with my friend the bachelorette and many of our lady friends for one of those obnoxious last nights out. seeing as we were the ones running around with large inflatable penises and were getting free drinks i thought it was swell. plus we all had hand-made tiaras. neat. anyway, we were downtown, which is only accessable by car unless you live remotely near there. stupid sprawl.

we had all our bases covered as there were two designated drivers- one who was going in my direction even. well as we dropped the bride to be and a bridesmaid off at their hotel and were cruising down the feeder road, it happened. i got in my very first collision. we were stopped at a light, chatting about something or other, and then there was a bang. then a jerk forward. luckily the worst of it was shock and relatively little damage to my friend's car.

even though we were only in a fender bender the rest of the scene was a bit sobering. we were the third car in the collision. so some drunk uninsured dick slammed his shiny ford truck into the back of another shiny pretty truck which slammed into us. the drunk uninsured dick's truck was totaled in the front and the other guy's truck bed looked really really bad. once i saw the damaged truck bed on our way home the schock really hit me, because had we been directly hit by the drunk uninsured dick we would have been in really. bad. shape.

so maybe all the other shit i have to deal with in new york is just some sort of tax on not getting in drunk driver induced car accidents.