Long Slow Goodbye

Sunday was a dinner for my grandma's birthday. we were meeting the usuals from SF as well as my aunt and uncle from SoCal in San Rafael. we stopped off at target to get my sister a bathing suit and my brother a set of headphones. my aunt and uncle were gonna be taking them down home with them.

on our way from target to the restaurant we hit traffic. my mom started to change lanes as she usually does, looking for those extra few feet. we eventually made our way back to the fast lane behind a Volvo S60. a little ways down the freeway a Nissan Sentra pulled in front of us, with barely enough room. several seconds later the brake lights on the volvo lit up and the nissan nosedived as it came to a hault. my mom breaked hard, harder when she realized how stopped everyone was. we stopped within feet of the sentra. then a BMW which was behind us and apparently going pretty damn fast slammed into us. it his us so hard in fact that the bed of our truck slammed into the cab, and was noticeably bent from the impact. the bumper was several inches lower and the floor and side of the bed buckled and bulged. it hit us so hard that we ended up hitting the nissan anyway. we smashed the bumper and broke their tailight.

as far as my family.... it felt like sosmeone hit me full force in the back of the head with a firm cusion. it didnt really hurt superficially, but there was a soreness internally.... from slamming my head into the headrest. also, my back and neck were a little sore. my bro and sis had similar symptoms. but im feeling better now and im pretty sure they are too, they ended up going down to SoCal after all. my mom was fine except for some soreness in her arm. none of hour airbags went off, but the BMW.

anyways, we took it to the body shop for ana estimate.. we got the result today. totalled. i figured as much. sicne the floor of the bed was buckled like that and thats bolted to the frame, which was pressumably bent as well.

in other news im making steady but slow progress with school. i have yet to submit my FAFSA because of... a long story. and i now know when my classes will be. mon, tues, thurs and fri. looks like im gonna be living with my dad in south city. or something.

moms home. time to get yelled at.