Just Pass Me By

Strange is the word of the day. Yesterday morning I bumped into my garage neighbor car, but she not my neighbor on my floor. I didn’t have paper on me and had a lot of things to do, so instead of running back down and leaving a note on the car. I called management to see if they could tell me, who owned the car, this way I could just run over to them quickly and tell them I bumped their car.

I didn’t see any damage but it not exactly light in the garage, so I figured the right thing was to let them know just in case I didn’t see a scratch on the car. After dinner I figured no one called or knocked on the door, so I figured either they where on vacation or maybe nothing was wrong with their car which was the best the ideas.

Around 11 something I heard someone messing at the door and then a knock on the door. It was our caretaker, with a card telling me I won for decorating my balcony. Well, I don’t celebrate Christmas and this year my Chanukaih isn’t out by the patio window because I just haven’t moved anything in front of it because dad goes in and out and I don’t want him tripping over something. We where both a little confused as to what did I win, and how I won. So the caretaker told me open it, because she was interested in knowing what it was about.

I got a thank you note for being honest and saying something when most people would just leave and say nothing. The person who wrote the note said this might be strange or something a long that line. Yes I will give her that, because normally when mishaps happen people don’t reward honesty. Most of the time you get people claiming their is far more damage then what there really is, like what happened to my husband a few years ago. They tried to hit him for a good amount of money on a tiny scratch. Which could have simply been fixed with one of those paint bottles. In the back of our minds we was worried about that, and I was worried about a huge increase in car insurance. I never do stupid things, I guess yesterday wasn’t stupid. The van died and I put it in neutral to restart it, and it rolled I moved the wheel just the right way and it did the roll where it shouldn’t have.

So I guess people are still honest. I have to say, I am surprised I got a gift certificate just because I was honest. I just wanted to do the right thing, honesty is a treasure that is hard to find.  The reward even with out that is not having to worry about car insurance increasing, and not worrying about coming up with money for repairs. Plus the real reward is her being honest that there was no damage. I guess a simple “thank you” would have made me just as happy. Not saying I am not happy about the gift certificate because I am it actually helps us get some things which we don’t have the money for, so it’s a blessing.

I can’t wait till I start my new job, I had orientation on Monday and it went okay. My next trying is the 6th, to bad it can’t be sooner I am excited about starting the new job.