It's All About the Golden Rule People

After reading this and this, it kind of makes you wonder if there are any good people left in the world. Well, I know of at least one.

The morning of June 13th, I had just finished working four shifts in a row, stayed late to learn how to use the new IV pump the hospital was introducing, and was pretty much exhausted. I was about to leave the hospital, when I remembered that I forgot to get a copy of the most recent work schedule. I reluctantly went back up to my unit, only to be greeted by the frantic unit secretary: "Oh my gosh you're here! Security's looking for you! Your car was hit in the parking lot and I heard it was pretty bad!" I immediately started to panic, but then I remembered that my car is a piece of crap anyway, and that it probably was not as big of a deal as she was making it out to be.

When I went down to the security office, the police were already there waiting for me. Now that's what I call service! I was expecting to have to wait hours for them to arrive to file the report. Apparently, the High Point police don't have much going on at 9am on a Tuesday.

Anyway, they told me that a witness had actually reported the incident about an hour earlier. Apparently, another employee was going a little too fast while turning into the parking space to the left of mine, and totally rammed into the rear driver's side door. She then proceeded to continue pulling into the space without stopping, got out of her car, looked at her car, glanced at mine, and then ran inside. Not to mention, when she opened her car door, she rammed it into the front passenger door of the witness's car (who was sitting in his car, one space over from mine), looked right at him, didn't even say anything, and just walked off toward the building.

At first, the witness thought that this crazy lady was going inside to report the incident. However, he actually knew this woman, so he also knew that she was not of very good moral character. He called security a little while later to see if any accidents had been reported that morning, and of course, since none had been, he went ahead and reported it. Well here's the kicker: When he went back out to the parking deck with security, the lady had actually moved her car! Can you believe it?! She was actually trying to pretend that nothing had ever happened. The nerve!


I am a firm believer in what goes around, comes around. And I think this lady must have had it coming to her. On the police report that I recieved a copy of, I saw that she was charged with "Leaving the Scene of an Accident" and "Unsafe Movement." LSOA is basically considered a hit and run (if you are leaving the scene without producing "necessary driver documentation"), and that, my friends, is a misdemeanor. (If I had been seriously hurt by it, it would have been a felony. Well my neck does kind of hurt... ) So there! Good guys: 1, bad guys: 0!

I am unbelievably thankful that there was a nice witness there to report this incident. Otherwise, I would have had to spend $1000 out of my own pocket just to get my poor car fixed. I'd also like to take this time to mention that this is the third time my car has been hit in a hospital parking deck. The first two times were also hit and runs! I'm sorry, does my car have a freaking target on it?!

Thanks to my nice witness, the crazy lady's insurance is taking full responsibility for getting my car fixed. Plus, I get a rental car, free of charge to me, while mine is in the shop. I did take the time last week to call up my witness and thank him over the phone (and that is how I was able to relate the detailed story above.) This week at work, I am planning on meeting him in person, so that I can also thank him in person. I am also going to bake him some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to show him how much I appreciate what he did. It's the least I can do. I just hope he's not allergic to chocolate... or oatmeal...

See? If you do nice things for people, you get home baked cookies! :)