My Walgreens Encounter

I'm not sure why but it has been hard to blog lately. All kinds of interesting happenings but I have been spending my writing time on the editing and rewriting of memoirs, my goal being to have them ready for publication and signing parties by June 1.

Between keeping up with my schedule of appts and classes and political debates and housekeeping and entertaining it feels like I don;t have any downtime. So what have I not told you?

How about the fender bender I had in the Walgreens parking lot? Much like kankakee the Walgreens on Collier here is the busiest place in town. When I came out of the store the other day a huge Hummer was parked next to me, So backing out I was slow and careful when "bang" ..... a car behind me had started to back out and rammed my right side behind the wheel, The other driver was a young Indian guy who kept saying "this is my new car" over and over. He was driving a corolla, new to him, and his first car. I was just relieved that nobody was hurt and I kept saying " It's just a car". When the cop showed up to write a report he agreed that neither of us was to blane and nobody got a ticket, But this poor kid was rready to cry. I found out that he worked at one of the resort hotels, had been here 3 years and been saving for a car all that time,

To shorten a long story I gave him my business card and told him if I could fix my own car ( a matter of rubbing compound and touch up paint I thought but I wanted Rich's opinion first) I would split his deductible with him. He called the next day and said his estimate was $740 and if I could do as I said I would he was not going to put in an insurance claim...was I serious about the $250? I was, he came over, got check and was sincerely grateful.

I suppose some may think me a fool because I did not have to do that, but I felt a lot better as he did, so I made two people happy.