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Accidents unveil feelings of timelessness
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I am sure that you all arc familiar
with the feeling. It has happened to
everyone at least once, and quite often
to some folks.
You see it coming, but can do
nothing about it. It is finished before
it seems to have begun. There is an
eerie feel ing of timelessness, and some
people might feel as if they are float
ing above their own bodies.
Your mind works desperately fast.
You want logo back, to do someth ing
differently, anything, but it is all for
naught.
And then it happens, that horrible
crunch as your body plows forward.
That, too, often happens in slow mo
tion, as if you might still have stopped
it, had you grabbed hold of someth ing
just a moment earlier.
Then you are dazed for a moment
before climbing out of your car and
wondering why it had to happen to
you at this particular time and place,
or why it had to happen to you at all.
Traveling by car is a wonderful
thing, but there is always the fear of
getting into an accident. Of course I
would never hit anyone else, but you
always have to watch out for the other
person.
I have been in two recent acci
dents, both of them minor if only
unsettling. Both of them occurred in
parking lots.
The first was a couple of summers
back on the verge of a departure for
Colorado, where I would visit rela
tives and then disappear into the great
outdoors.
The parking slallsat my apartment
complex were rather small, so I backed
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my car into the space between two
rows of parked cars, leaving it there
while I did some last minute packing.
From my earliest years 1 was ad
monished to go to the bathroom just
before leaving for a long drive in the
car, and that adv ice had always served
me well until this incident.
The car was packed, the cooler
filled with ice and sandwiches, and
the maps were marked. I asked my
traveling companion to watch the car
for a moment and to move it if anyone
needed to get into the parking lot.
From inside the bathroom my calm
was shattered when I heard a horrific
crashing and grinding sound, as if a
refrigerator in the apartment above
mine had fallen through the floor and
landed atop my stove. 1 ran outside
already knowing that the worst had
happened.
My friend told me that it had hap
pencd before she could do anything. I
was naturally suspicious, but it turned
out that she was quite right. She
watched it all in q surreal slow mo
tion, unbelieving, like she had been in
the car itself.
A guy from an apartment across
the lot had casually gotten into h is car,
started it, and immediately backed
into my car, which was blocking his
exit. How he could have failed to see
my car parked behind his, I have no
idea. Had he waited even 20 seconds,
there would have been no problem.
As it was, he got out of his car, and
1 got out of my apartmen t and we went
through the ritual of surveying the
damage, each circl ing the pair of cars
with frowns on our l aces and hands on
our hips, stooping here and lapping
there.
His English was poor and my Chi
nese worse, so we did not get very far.
There really was not much to say, but
I wanted to work it out after our
return. My passenger door was wedged
shut and his car was essentially un
damaged, so I thought it might wait.
I suggested we exchange insur
ance information the following Mon
day upon my return and he nodded
vigorously. I moved my car forward
and watched the man load his family
into his car and drive away.
Aside from having one less work
ing door on my car, the trip went well,
and I felt a wondrous sense of renewal
in the mountains, regretting only that
my butt got sunburned while sitting in
the sun.
That Monday 1 went to the man’s
apartment and felt a sense of dread as
my knocks went unanswered. The
dread solidified as the complex man
ager explained that the man and his
family has just moved back to China
My other accident occurred much
more recently, just a couple of weeks
ago while visiting friends. It wasaboul
12:55 a.m. and we had just run out of
beer. You probably already know the
rest of the story.
I drove a few blocks to the local
convenience mart and pulled into the
parking lot. Now, as I understand
things, a person drives down the lot
and pulls into an empty stall. If some
one is in a stall, that person wait*to
back out until things are clear.
So there I am, turning into this stall
when, for some unfathomable reason,
this guy looks right at my car in his
rear view mirror and backs directly
into me, just clipping the rear of my
car as I slipped into the stall. Again I
felt the curious timelessness, experi
encing ages in an instant.
How do these things happen? They
just should not be. I sat and shook my
head for a moment, then sent my
friend in for the beer while I got out to
repeat the ritual.
I looked at his truck and he at my
car. I wondered why it was that the
person who hits another car never
seems to suffer damage to his/her
vehicle, especially when that person
is clearly in the wrong.
We stood there in silence until I
suggested that we simply forget the
matter. His truck was not damaged,
and I saw no point in hassling him and
his insurance company for damage
that 1 was not going to repair anyway.
He drove off with what I thought to
bean inadequate amount of gratitude,
and I sal again in my car trying to
figure out how these things happen.
My friend came outempty-handed
a moment later — they did not even
sell beer at this location.
Bryan Peterson is a senior Knglish, phi
losophy and psychology major and a Daily
Nebraskan reporter.
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