it's about time girls started realizing this.... they pretty much can't drive after Jan. 1st anyways since the new law says you can't drive while talking on the phone

 

I'm won't assign blame to one particular demographic, this was all about her, plain and simple.

 

Glad your car isn't hurt, but was it worth you hurting your shoulder when her ins would pay for the damages??

 

In hindsight, I'd have to go with "no".

Anyone have some vicodin that they can spare?

 

I have a similar story from High school, I was stuck in a jam, car in front of me and behind. A guy starts backing his liften wrangler out of the spot, his tow hitch coming at my door. Luckily I was in a Volvo so at that speed not much damage, like stabbing the door and hitting me. The guy behind me just watched, luckily after two feet of backing out he realized....

 

No but i got something else that might dull the pain

 

Vicodin sucks... I hate it... Morphine is where it's at

 

He wanted to dull the pain, not comatose

but yeah vicodin sux unless you can get the norcos which are the most powerful vics minus the aspirin.

 

they gave me some narly vics for my arm after surgeory... I took one, it made me feel like **** to the point I had to go to sleep.. I never took another one again, i should have sold the bottle

 

They give me Norco for my back, fun stuff.

 

All the fun, none of the liver damage!! ftw

 

UPDATE:

My shoulder feels a bit better now, but the range-of-motion leaves a little to be desired.

On the plus side, I now have this handy new holder for all my pens!

 

qft

 

So I walked in about 15min late to work today, and my boss (who's just back from vacation) starts saying to me, "So what happened, did the traffic start getting backed-up at North Tex..." and then realized that I had my left arm in a sling. He said, "What the hell happened to you?"

To avoid having to repeat my story a hundred times for every dealership employee who asked "What the hell happend to you?", I had printed out a couple of copies of my original post on Tuesday morning, and gave one to him in anticipation of another round of 20 questions. When he got to the part where I wrote that I had straight-armed the car to make it stop, he asked me two detailed questions that no one else had bothered to ask.

"Did you get a big bruise on your back and shoulder?"
"No," I replied, "but I have this big knot in the muscle over my shoulder blade, like I tried to bench press 300 pounds."
"Sooo, did she have her foot on the gas while she was backing up?"
"Nope," I said, "the whole time she was riding the brake, and I never heard the sound of the exhaust go up above an idle."

After about a minute of thought, he looked up at me and said, "It sounds to me like the only reason she stopped is because you really did hold her car back."
"Whadda ya mean?"
"Well, figure this," he said. "If she didn't have her foot on the gas and was riding the brake the whole time, the car wouldn't have had enough power to overcome the resistance of you pushing against it. Since the vast majority of Camrys are automatics (he used to be a Toyota parts manager before this job), the torque converter would have started to just freewheel again."

And with that, it all came together in my head. If this brain-dead ***** didn't heed the warning of two car horns blowing simultaneously, why would she have stopped with me screaming for dear life? I was so intent on stopping her car with my own two arms that I involuntarily squeezed my eyes shut, and didn't see the action again until I felt her car come to a stop. Her haste in pulling into the parking spot and the way she jumped out of her seat leads me to believe that when she finally realized that her car wasn't making any more progress, she finally decided to look over her right shoulder to see me making a face that looked kinda like Elvis dying on the toilet!

After that, I sat on the stool at my counter in stunned silence for about a good 3 minutes. Think about it; it's not everyday that you find out after a crisis situation that you managed to pull-off a "Superman", except without the full-body ache of having to go flying off of a swing set!

 

Parker Jotter FTW, my farovitest pens ever. A Fisher Space Pen refill makes it even better