Lovely Masshole moment

So today in Harvard Square, an infamously congested and bewilderingly arranged area in Boston, I was stopped on a side street giving a big rig plenty of room to back into a loading dock. Just as I started moving again, a Rav4 rear ended me. I stopped right there, not wanting to risk the other driver running, grabbed my camera and surveyed the damage, which consisted of a barely perceivable scratch. I went up to the car and was about to pleasantly tell the driver not to worry and to drive carefully, but the lady rolled down her window and snapped "You Stopped!" I replied "Yes, I stopped". Then she screamed "YOU STOPPED!!!" to which I replied "yes I stopped and you didn't and you hit me, but don't worry about it". I went back to my car, but she screamed out the window "YUR AT FAULT!!!". I yelled at her to pull over, and once we had done so she started to explain to me that "there was NO LIGHT!" "You can't stop if there's no light. You're at fault". SCREAMED back "THIS IS HARVARD SQUARE!!! YOU STOP WHEN PEOPLE CROSS THE STREET, YOU STOP WHEN YOU PARALLEL PARK YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION AND DRIVE AND WATCH THE ROAD etc etc", all the while she's screaming "NO LIGHT, NO LIGHT" I also explained that if you rear end someone, it's always your fault, especially on a city street and when the other car doesn't even stop short or anything. At this point her boyfriend stepped out of the car, and I could deal with her but I didn't really want to deal with her boyfriend, so I screamed back "TOOTLES, LEARN TO DRIVE", and she was still screaming "YUR AT FAULT YUR AT FAULT" when I got into my car. I saw her furiously pull out her cell phone and dial...

Now, if I wasn't late for class, I would have waited around and watched (and maybe videotaped) the lady try to explain to the cop that I caused the accident because after all, you can't stop unless there's a red light, but alas, I guess I'll have to use my imagination...

And yes, it's after 12 so April Fools day is over. I'm not kidding you.

 

Woops, I accidentally hit the submit button before I finished writing, I've now edited it.

 

LOLOL! I was just waiting for her to say "April Fool's! You probably would have been too if it had been on April 1...

OMG I was backed into in NYC, and the lady stormed out of the car and said 'Well I didn't know you where behind me!" She told me I didn't need to call the insurance company or report it, and tried to un-crunch the crunched fender and somehow magically fix the broken headlight and eventually left the scene, but I took plenty of pictures and even though my insurance company couldn't track her down, they paid for it anyway and the shop actually did a whole bunch of other body work on the car and billed it all to the IC, so I was happy!

 

Funny you should mention mention this, as today I found out that a friend of mine had his Civic hybrid totaled in Boston the other day by a lady who made a left turn from the rightermost of the two right turn only lanes across 4 more lanes of moving traffic without really looking and no toot of the horn!

Guess what he bought to replace it!

I'm so sorry! I've been taking courses through the Harvard extension school to fill out my high school transcript, so I have to park on the street there multiple times a week. In the last few years it's gotten even more congested, and of course they plan the nonstop construction to strategically create as much gridlock as possible. It does beat highway robbery T and parking lots though.

My mother made me drive in Boston only a couple months after I got my permit = Scarred for life!