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God what a F'ed Monday this has been. So I'm off work sitting at a stop light in a crowded trucking area. I see that the truck in front of me has one of those new anti-terrorist/car chase devices that I saw on TV last month. Basically, when a cop car hits the back, it's supposed to lock up the brakes on the truck. It was this long bar looking thing and was quite obvious. So I'm at the light thinking weird things to myself like "I wonder what would happen if it was hit from behind on a corner...would it skid out and wreck?". Morbid stuff like that since that's how I am. Then all of a sudden I feel this semi-light jolt. I perk up out of my daze and check the rear view mirror...there's a car about 4 lengths behind me slowing to a stop. I quickly (more like INSTANTLY) scan to the right and there's parked cars and such and then to the left. On the left I see a PT Cruiser in the left turn lane and the guy is casually fixing his hair in the mirror. So I'm thinking to myself "WHAT THE F@CK!?". I mean, it wasn't violent at all...but did feel like I was tapped in the back at a low speed. But NO ONE was behind me and the guy on the side was stopped when I looked. So I'm dazed trying to figure out what happened...maybe the tranny jolted? But I was idle...can't be that. As the light changed and I go to get out, I scan over to the PT Cruiser and catch part of the plate just in case. I got 4MXF1 and that was it. I looked at the rear of the car and sure enough, I had a 5 inch vertical and 1 inch wide black scuff mark on my rear driver's side bumper. DAMNIT! I was pissed and baffled at the same time. HOW!? I looked up INSTANTLY and saw no car there...and I looked fast enough that I couldn't fathom him hitting me as he took the turn into the lane a little late. I was going to give chase, but it was too late as he got on the freeway and I was still trying to figure out how it happened. The only thing I could think of is that the REAR of his car hit mine as he took the turn too close...even then I checked chrysler.com and the car doesn't have wide rear bumpers. Argh. So I had just imagined a car hitting the back of this truck and then *I* get hit. Wonderful. So I get to a gas station and call up a family friend to run the plate (former PI, now a sergeant). I grab my cleaning supplies (Mr. Anal here) and thank GOD it comes off...there's the slightest of yellowish burn to it (downside of white cars when hit) but it's nearly invisible. Deja vu. I'm still pissed that this guy just ignored me...he KNOWS he hit me from that jolt and tried to hide it. Am I suprised? No. Would I have posted and bitched about it? Normally no...but there's more. So I get a call back about 40 min later with good news...he got a match. Based on the color (Light Blue or Steel blue as Ron told me) and the partial there was only one in California and it was registered a few cities South. Bingo. I got the name and number (after being lectured about NOT going and kicking this guys ass...he knows how I am with cars) and called up but no answer. I just got home 20 minutes ago and tried it again and got an answer. To make a long story short, I lied and said "Your car, license plate XXXXXX was involved in a slight collision today, am I right?". I got silence for a second but I had hoped spouting his whole plate# would scare him into being honest and thinking I was a cop. It worked. He tried to say that he wasn't sure what happened and I wasn't buying it. In the end, he agreed to pay for a detailing of the car though he kept asking how I got the number. I just made it clear that he was involved in a hit and run and he backed off that (even though I reported nothing...so I'd have no case). Man...I still can't believe that out of the 10,000 interesections I've been in in the last 3 years, the ONE time I think of a rear end collision, I get into one (of sorts). Like the subject says...maybe I need to think more positive and it will come true (yeah right). I'm telling you...I've had more weird stories with this car than anything else...too bad most come at my expense. I need a good break for once. Just the ones off the top of my head: Getting spun out by a big ass cholo gangbanger
Pulling a dead girl from a wreck right in front of me
Catching guy egging my car and him wetting himself at sight of my Samoan friend
Car getting broken into and trashed I should write a damn book.
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