Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Bumper Basher, part II

Husband came home from work this morning and says: So, did you happen to notice anything different about my car?!?

Cue me burrowing as far under the covers as I can get.

Husband: So, were you going to tell me?!?

Me: *wail* No. I mean yes, eventually.

Husband: What happened?

Me: I fill him in on the details of how I'm an idiot and backed into that stupid yellow pole.

Husband: Well, I actually feel better knowing some idiot didn't hit me and not even leave a note or anything.

Me: Really? Well, I won't drive your car again.

Husband: Yeah, and when I do something like this to YOUR car, you just remember this little incident.

Me: Okay. (Breathing a huge sigh of relief that my toenails have stayed intact.)

*sniff*...*sniff*... *wail*

So, when I was at the library today (prior to bashing Husband's new, white car's rear bumper into one of those short yellow poles in a parking lot, for which I will undoubtedly be hung up by my toenails, more on this later) I picked up the movie The Notebook.

Why?

Apparently, because I wanted to have a sobfest tonight. And holy cow did I cry. It was just such an incredibly moving, emotional, tragic story. *sigh*

And then I had to follow that up, once I stopped sobbing, with an episode of Sex and the City wherein Aidan moves out of Carrie's apartment and she has to figure out how to come up with a down payment to buy her apartment. But that was just sad, too.

Ok, so, for the bumper bashing story: I took Husband's car to do some errands today, including going to the library and returning some videos. After I had returned the videos and was attempting to back out of the parking space, oh so carefully, I hit one of those stupid, stupid, stupid, pointless yellow poles. Oh, I saw the FOUR surrounding the street lamp, but happened to miss the FIFTH one. Really, five?

As soon as it happened, all my internal organs immediately dropped about 5 feet. When I got home I discovered that while it's really not that bad (no dents), it's still fairly terrible. I placed a terrified emergency call to a friend, and she suggested trying some cleaner on it and then using white-out (his car is white). I used the cleaner, and while it helped a little bit, it's still pretty bad. And of course I couldn't find any white out...I tore the place apart and no dice. So, to preserve my life (my aunt suggested I just pack up my bags and come to visit her NOW), I'm waiting to discuss it with him until he notices it and brings it up first.

Think I can get away with saying his car got hit...with an inanimate object?