Fender Bender Quotes

Do you think I’m a trainwreck, Ryan?” I huff a laugh. “You’re more like a cute little fender bender.

She thinks I am easily distracted when I drive. There were a few fender benders, but she doesn’t actually realize I was playing bumper cars because people just piss me off when I drive.

If you drive the same car as me, and have been in a fender bender, I’ll think, “Boy, that’s what my car could look like.” Same with clones. If one of my clones got beat up, I’ll think, “Boy, that could have been me. Better me squared than me.

Some orgasms were like fender benders. Quick, generally harmless, forgettable. Others were more like backing into a bus. More damage, more memories. And a select few were like a fucking train wreck. Blacked out, body-splitting. They turned you inside out and back again.

Metcalf came into the room and sat down with a sigh. "Did everybody go nuts all of a sudden? It's Thursday, for Christ's sake, and you'd think it was Saturday night. Fender benders, B amp;Es, domestic disputes-and some asshole just tried to rob one of our three banks." "Unsuccessfully, I gather," Lucas said. "Yeah, but not much credit to my people. Guy had a flare gun. A flare gun. I was ready to shoot him just on general principle. And because he fucked up my morning.

Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—

MISTAKES AND CURVEBALLS YOU MUST LET YOUR KID EXPERIENCE19 • Not being invited to a birthday party • Experiencing the death of a pet • Breaking a valuable vase • Working hard on a paper and still getting a poor grade • Having a car break down away from home • Seeing the tree he planted die • Being told that a class or camp is full • Getting detention • Missing a show because she was helping Grandma • Having a fender bender • Being blamed for something he didn’t do • Having an event canceled because someone else misbehaved • Being fired from a job • Not making the varsity team • Coming in last at something • Being hit by another kid • Rejecting something he had been taught • Deeply regretting saying something she can’t take back • Not being invited when friends are going out • Being picked last for neighborhood kickball

You banged a priest last night, didn’t you?” “Yup.” One of the elderly women behind them gasped in shock. Griffin turned around and gave her an apologetic smile. “She banged a Prius last night,” Griffin whispered to her. “Fender bender. She’s still a little shook up about it.

There were about thirty-five people, all of them middle-aged, with the academic’s strange mixed expression of merriment and weariness. “A cross between flirtation and a fender bender,” Martin had described it once.

Everyone’s path looks different,” she said. “Some people can get on a plane and get to their destination in a shorter amount of time. Others take a road trip all over before reaching where they want to be, and maybe they get in a fender bender on the way and they have to stop for a while. That doesn’t make it any less important to get to that goal. If anything, it provides life experiences the person on the plane didn’t get.

From now on, someone will. Every fuckin’ thing, every goddamn time. A dirty look, a fender bender, someone not talkin’ to you right—I’m there, or I’m on my goddamn way.

Safety should be your first priority. If you have a minor fender bender, state law requires you to move your vehicles to the shoulder and out of the way of traffic. This will prevent further damage to the rental vehicle and help you avoid being hit or killed by another car. If anyone has been injured, call 911 and report it immediately. Avoid moving anyone unless you absolutely must do so.

You, Jerimiah or Sunshine or whatever your dumb name is, didn’t get into a fender bender because Mercury is in retrograde. It’s because you’re a fucking idiot who didn’t look where you were going before merging lanes. This or that isn’t a sign that you’re destined to do whatever. There are no signs. Just life. Go cut your hair, wash your face, and shut your bloody mouth.

I once witnessed a fender bender in a grocery store parking lot. Two cars were backing up at the same time and their rear bumpers collided. The collision appeared to cause only minor damage to each vehicle. I watched as one driver jumped out of his vehicle and said, “Just what I needed. Why do these things always happen to me? As if I didn’t already have enough to deal with today!” Meanwhile, the other driver stepped out of his vehicle shaking his head. In a very calm voice he said, “Wow, we’re so lucky that no one got hurt. What a great day it is when you can get into an accident and walk away from it without a single injury.” Both men experienced the exact same event. However, their perception of the event was completely different. One man viewed himself as a victim of horrible circumstance while the other man viewed the event as good fortune. Their reaction was all about their differences in perception.

Anxiety Whenever you are tense and anxious, your thoughts speed up, triggering you to accelerate your speaking pace, too. The more adrenaline you have, the faster you will be tempted to talk, and the more verbal fender benders you’ll have along the way.

I'm so sorry," she apologized, explaining that her mother had been in a fender bender on the drive over. "She has a car accident every few months. She's a really crazy driver," Lila laughed sheepishly. It turned out this was the understatement of the year since Joie totaled more cars in a decade than most did in a lifetime.