PSA: my worst week on the highway totaled three cars in six days

Last May I was driving home on I-85 near Atlanta and got rear-ended by a distracted teen on a Tuesday. Then Thursday morning a deer jumped right over the median and smashed into my rental's front end. By Sunday I was driving a loaner from my buddy's lot and some guy ran a red light at the intersection of Piedmont and Monroe. Three wrecks in one week. Each time I walked away without a scratch but my insurance premium jumped $400. Has anyone else had a stretch of bad luck like that where you just wanted to stop driving for a month?

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barbarahill5d ago

Wait, are you saying you actually want MORE wrecks in your life? I mean, three in a week sounds like the universe giving you a pretty clear message to stay off the road for a while. Your insurance premium going up $400 is annoying but maybe that's the price of learning to pay attention. I've had two fender benders in ten years and both times I figured it was my fault for not being more careful. Maybe instead of blaming bad luck you should look at your own driving habits.

jade_hernandez4d ago

That part about "the universe giving you a pretty clear message" really hits home. My friend Sara had a month where she got hit by a shopping cart, backed into a fire hydrant, and then her neighbor's tree fell on her car all within three weeks. She said she started taking the bus for a while just to give her car a break.