...with this goal right now. I was recently in a car accident, and my poor Lincoln was destroyed. It took me three months to find it, I flew 800 miles to buy it, spent 6 months modifying it, and now it’s gone. So many bad things had to come together to cause the accident that I just don’t understand how. The chances of it all happening so perfectly are just unimaginable. If that wasn’t bad enough, I was one out of ten Lincoln LS’s accepted into a car show later this month, and I found out the day before the accident that I had final approval to be in a calendar for 2007.
And as if things couldn’t possibly get any worse, the insurance company said they might not be able to cover the car, so I might just be out my $30,000 investment. I have a severely separated shoulder, i’m stuck wearing a neck-brace, and I got a concussion when I broke the driver’s window with my head, but other than that I wasn’t hurt too badly. The guy who was riding with me only has scrapes & bruises, but the entire back half of my car is gone. I reached in the back seat after the accident to look for my cell phone, and I was touching the inside-out trunk lid. The police said they were in shock when they came up on the mangled car, and we were just sitting behind it. In fact the CD case that I keep in the car was found over 30 yards from the accident scene.
All in all we’re lucky to be alive, so I can’t forget that, but it just doesn’t seem to even matter right now. I would be devastated if my friend was hurt badly, or god forbid killed, but I really couldn’t care less what happened to me. That car was everything to me, and I don’t know if i’m gonna be able to cooperate with the fact that it’s gone forever. Not to mention that I can’t work anymore, I now have no transportation to college, and I may have to make payments for the next 3 years on a car that doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve been through enough to understand how lucky I am to be alive, but I don’t think I deserve to have everything taken away like this. I’ve already been in one serious accident, and it turned my life upside down. I just don’t know if I have the strength to do it all again.
