Yesterday’s blog was a little "Manic"…and what a better way to end my day than:

…being in a friend’s car …getting smashed into by another car…and the other car FLEEING THE SCENE. Ain’t nothing like a little Hit and Run to top the day off right?…CRAZY!

I know, I gave away the punch line…now here’s the story.

I went to have dinner at about 8pm with my friend Val who drives drove this sweet 50 thousand dollar Lexus Hybrid SUV[I'm not really someone who is "into cars" but this Lexus is was fancy-shmancy]. I was the passenger while we were stopped at a crosswalk. Suddenly, I feel a hit from behind and hear a loud CRUNCH. A Minivan slammed into the back of the Lexus with us in it.

Val gets out of the car to get the lady’s insurance info and do all the regular stuff that you’re supposed to do when getting smashed into. The lady was DENYING that she did anything. It was FREAKY. Val continued to ask her for her info and the lady tries to cut around the Lexus…I’m now out of the car at this point so I stand in front of the lady’s vehicle and snap a picture of her plate with my cell phone just in case she was going to run off(I REALLY did not think she was going to run off). So, Val starts to call the police because this lady is not cooperating. Luckily, there just happened to be cop car that arrived on the scene with two officers in it.

One officer walked up to me as I was standing in front of her car and I think he asked if everyone was OK(or something like that)…I say "Officer, this lady is trying to leave the scene" and then I figured since the police were there, I’d done my duty and didn’t have to be a human roadblock any longer….so I move out of the way. The lady looks at the cops…and then TAKES OFF! Pretty BALLSY!

The cops asked what just happened…they seemed just as stunned as I was…they got back in their car and gave chase but she got away. They came back about 20 minutes later and told us to head to the Police Department and file a report. It was a good thing I snapped a picture of her license plate but I wish I would have taken more photos of her and the other gal she had in the car. Maybe I should have stayed in front of her car longer? Who knows…she might have run me over!

It was just a trippy situation…the bright side…no one was hurt. It was just SO weird and almost slow-motion. My guess is…she did not have Insurance..or she was in the country illegally…or maybe this late-40’s looking mother was actually a crack dealer with 4 warrants out for her arrest. God only knows. I just could never picture myself smashing into another car and then taking off.