I was returning home from my mom's boyfriend's fortieth birthday party, hosted at my Aunt's house. We had just played several rounds of Mario Party on N64 and despite the serious burn on my hand from playing that minigame where you have to rotate the analog stick in order to light the lightbulb, it was shaping up to be a pretty swell evening. So anyway, my 17-year-old sister Shell was driving me and my other sister, also 17, back home. I was in the passenger seat (shotgun, baby). We live about 25 miles away, and it was about 9:30. Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" was playing on the radio, which is one of my favorite songs, and I was mentioning the excellent cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" that Star****er did. As we were turning onto the highway, this red SUV comes out of nowhere. They're heading straight, and I guess Shell didn't see her coming or whatever, so I start screaming bloody murder and clutching onto whatever I can find. Shell skids to a stop and the SUV keeps going. I jerked forward (thank god I always wear my seatbelt) and I initially thought that we didn't hit them. I looked in the mirrors and saw them going away, my heart pounding, thinking everything was cool. So we're driving down the highway, freaked out, asking Shell whether the light was green, if she had the right of way, etc etc. All of a sudden I see someone tailgating us, flashing their brights, so we pull over. Shell rolls down her window and the woman does too. She looked about thirty, looked latino, and had a bit of an accent. She's like "I thought you were trying to run away," and sounded a little ticked off. Shell explained that she didn't realize we hit, but they got out, exchanged information & such. Apparently she's only got two scratches on her car and ours is pretty okay, a little scratch and dent but nothing major. She's going to call and see if there's any need to make a fuss tomorrow. tl;dr version: we clipped someone and I thought I was going to die.
I was listening to the Double Rainbow Song when reading this. So that plus this ^ made me laugh really hard.
