Unfortunate (but not horrible) Circumstances

So, yesterday. The scene is me at the circulation desk. One of the reference librarians comes up to me and asks, "Do you drive a blue Mercury?"

"Yeah," I say, immediately wary. "Why?"

"Someone hit your car."

I immediately facedesk.

So I go to my work locker and I grab my wallet which has all the needed information, grab my cellphone and keys and go out to where I'd parked my car.

So, the library shares the land between four side streets. Diagonal parking on all sides. I usually park over near one of the street lights because some shifts I work until after dark and I like it when my car is in the light.

But it is way before sunset yesterday, so I go out and see my car is now vertical instead of diagonal. A driver on that street had drifted, hit the car next to me, ripped off a third of its bumper (which was stuck between the passenger door and the panel), crashed into my car, moved the back end of Hermes three feet to the left and crashed me into the reference librarian's van.

I can only stare for a long minute.

So, an hour later the accident is all written up, insurance information is exchanged, I've moved my car out with help from the cop and thankfully no further damage to my car or the ref librarian's. The cop says that the only insurance info we need is the guy who hit all of us, which is good news, and that we just need to call his place and get our information.

Mostly, my car has body damage. None of the lights broke, but the paint is scraped and the bumper is dented in three different places. And I might need a new license plate, since mine is now all scratched up and twisted...

So, that was fun.