Well, I had a fender bender car accident this morning, so that sucked The police didn't assign blame because we were both turning left from parking lots and collided in the middle even though she stated it was her fault (guess she got lucky!). Unfortnately, no eyewitnesses stopped once they determined it was a fender bender and everyone was OK. At that time of day, the direction she was facing, the sun was right in her eyes, and I always watch for people turning left from that parking lot. I think she zipped through the parking lines of the parking lot, came to the exit & didn't even stop & turned. No one was hurt, but there was car damage (mine worse than hers). I was driving a Subaru Forester (the older model, before they made it a bit larger), she a much bigger SUV (Nissan pathfinder).

I am going to try to file with her car insurance first, see if I get any luck. I had to take the car to an auto body repair shop, and even with the minimal damage, the estimate to fix it is $2000! Luckily, the car is still driveable, the lights and turn signals all work, so the damage appears to be mostly cosmetic. If I have to file through my car insurance, it will be $500. If I want my insurance to investigate and they find 50/50 blame or her to blame, I will have to pay $250, or perhaps less if they can wrangle the money out of her insurance (long drawn out process from what my insurance company tells me). I guess both companies have to do investigations and determine the fault, even if the police officer didn't ticket anyone or assign any blame.

So, so far, a sucky day.