Great Start

I hit a pole the first day I moved into my apartment here in Springfield. Where was the pole? In the garage that I have to park my car in everyday. Awesome, right? I didn't dent my car, but on the driver's side, front bumper, there's a nice shading of rust-red from about my headlight to the bottom of the bumper. Oh, the joys. I got my car this past March after my first car died. This was my first real step into independence and adulthood. At the time, I bought the brand new car without having a job yet. Probably not the smartest thing, but luckily things worked out and I now have a lovely car payment every month. I really like my car, and I was so upset with myself that I did that. I could have sworn I was gonna clear the pole, but whoops, my bad. I told my Dad and he was like "Your Mother and I were even just talking about how we hoped you wouldn't hit that, and I said that I'm sure you'd be fine." Double whoops. He wasn't mad though. Me on the other hand, I really was fuming at myself. A couple months before that, maybe a month after I got it while I was still at school, I came out of the grocery store and saw from probably 15 yards away a scrape on the driver's side back bumper. That was definitely not my fault. I thought, "Some stupid butt hole scraped it with their car bumper or a shopping cart or something!" Funny thing is that it wasn't even extremely noticeable (it was still black, the scrape took off the shiny paint but not the color and didn't leave another color on it), but it was just enough for me to notice and be upset about. It was the first "boo boo" on my car and it emotionally struck me. I looked at it, mouth open, got in my car, called my Dad and started crying as I started to verbalize the traumatic situation I just discovered. Now you should know I'm pretty (well, extremely) sensitive and things like that can just trigger me. It was upsetting to me and especially because it wasn't my fault and that I was just stunned that someone would do that and not have the integrity or courtesy to leave a note or something! I know I really shouldn't have been surprised, with the way the world is today, but I was nonetheless and it was very troubling to me. So my nice, shiny, cute Honda has two blemishes that I'd really like to get rid of. If only I could find that money. Anybody know of someone who does good car work for cheap?

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