Ooops...
I have reached another (this one somewhat humiliating) milestone in my new driving career: the fender bender. And I have reason to be embarrassed. It was completely and totally my fault. Good news is that no one was hurt, my car was left pretty much undamaged (although the left side of my front license plate is now a teensy bit concave), and the other girl's car seems to have sustained very minor damage (ie: a screw-shaped scratch on her already slightly scuffed rear bumper from where the screw holding in my front license plate made contact with her car). Hopefully, she'll just get me a quote and I can write her a check and all will be done (fingers crossed). I feel really bad because I'm sure the last thing she needs is to spend the time to go take her car to the shop, etc . I also feel really lame because the circumstances under which this mishap occured were completely avoidable and for a moment I was just totally not paying attention.What happened was that traffic was especially bad and I had spent 20 minutes going only like 3 or 4 miles. At one point all four lanes had come to (another) complete stop and I guess I kinda let my guard down. When the lanes on either side of me finally started moving, I took my foot off of the brake pedal without thinking and ended up bumping into the car in front of me. What was also working against me was that just before we had come to that complete stop, I think I had to stop more suddenly than expected, so I was close to the car in front of me and didn't have as much space as I would have usually liked. I guess I got really lucky in that I didn't actually accelerate into her car, and I was literally going 2 mph when I rear-ended her.
All in all, I'm just sort of embarrassed and a little bit peeved at myself for doing something so absent-minded and stupid. This probably/hopefully won't blow up into anything too huge (mostly due to the lack of serious damage to either car), but due to my carelessness, I've put myself in a vulnerable spot. Oh well.
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