Car Trouble

It's always fun to share my embarrassing moments with the world...

I'm driving home in our Passat last night, and I come to a stop at a left turn lane behind another car. I decide this is the perfect time to apply some chap stick, and I flip down the visor mirror to take a look at myself. A few seconds later I feel the car jerk just a bit, and I look behind me thinking that some idiot has rear-ended me. Unfortunately, the car behind me is about 15 feet away, and as I look forward my face falls as I am confronted with a very awkward situation. While looking at myself in the mirror, I apparently eased my foot off the brake ever so slightly and drifted right into the car in front of me.

What does one do in this situation? Well, I go about waving my hands in the air and mouthing, "S-O-R-R-Y" in an effort to convey that my little tap of their car was totally unintentional, all the while expecting that the person in front of me will exit their vehicle to confront me. Lucky for me, they just gave me a really dirty look and continued to stare at me bewildered in their side mirror for the several long minutes that it took for that light to turn green. Meanwhile, I wave my arms a few more times in apology and avoid all eye contact with any car in a one block radius.

Thankfully my car was the nicer of the two, and the other driver was very forgiving of my embarrassing vehicular blunder.