Yes, what a way to end the year. Got up early and saw that Mother Nature had dumped two-plus inches of snow on us during the night, with light flurries still falling. Kel had a doctor’s appointment in Lancaster and afterward was going to take Anthony to play with some of his cousins so she could visit with her sister. It was going to be a nice day.
I got the driveway shoveled out and Kel on her way a little late but with plenty of time to get everything in. Our development hadn’t yet been plowed but the major arteries were getting cleared pretty quickly.
All was going according to plan until some colossal asshole in a white car decided to drive in reverse on Route 283 toward Lancaster (for those of you not familiar with the Harrisburg area, 283 is a major highway). Monsieur Dickwad apparently missed his exit and decided to just drive backward down the middle of the road. Kel saw the car with reverse lights on and couldn’t believe what she was seeing. She swerved to avoid him, tried to go around, fishtailed, and slid sideways into the end of a guardrail with her passenger side door. The window exploded and the door crumpled in.
The fucktard drove three more people off the road before vanishing. No one was able to get his license number, so the son of a bitch will get away with his bit of reckless stupidity.
So no doctor’s visit. No visit with sister. But there is $2,300 worth of damage, of which we’ll have to pay $500 and then higher insurance premiums. Kel called the police to report the accident. They said they couldn’t do anything, and that it would have been better from an insurance standpoint to have just run into the fucker.
At least no one was hurt.
I sure as hell 2010 comes in better than 2009 is going out.
