Okay, this is nothing as exciting as Prom Night o' Catastrophe, but I thought I should share my adventure of today.
So, I was assigned to take any of the students who were interested to the laundromat downtown. It's not too far, but I'm supposed to take the mini-bus and meet them in front of the dorms. Now, I had already tried such a trip yesterday, but nobody showed up. And today was no different. After asking around all the lounges to double-check that no one was interested, I get back in the bus and drive off to park it and turn in the keys.
These buses are larger than normal cars that I'm used to driving. And they remind you of this when you learn how to drive one. And they tell you that you'll probably forget at some point how much larger it is.
If it were the size of the vehicles I am used to driving, I wouldn't have swiped that parked car, taking out its left rear lights.
But since it was in fact larger than the vehicles I am used to driving, I misjudged that right-hand turn and heard a crash. I wondered, "did I hit something?" I looked at the faces of the people around me and concluded, "I hit something." I go to park the car, hustle back towards the parked car, see that I sure did take a nice bite out of it, head back to my room to write a note to put on the car, and leave it under the windshield wipers, where someone else had already left a note saying "your car was hit by a Brewster Academy van."
I go back to the summer programs office to tell them what happened, and when I get there they're already on the phone with an officer, and I'm told to grab the paperwork from inside the van and head back to the scene of the crime. I get there, and the officer says that he was considering arresting me for leaving the scene of the crime. I meet the nice folks whose car I hit (and the woman's 90-year-old mother), and after a bit, the officer realizes that I did in fact leave the note, which clears me of the hit-and-run allegation that was the general consensus of the witnesses.
Although maybe it would have been fun to be on the lam.
To be continued?
