Mats' Fender Bender First off, I'm fine. My car is fine. I just wanted to let you guys know what happened with my car since a few people already know via IRC/text message and I mentioned it in the Google thread. →[More:]When I was leaving my job on the Eastside to head down to Portland on Friday, an old guy in a van changed lanes on top of me when I was in his blind spot, dented my passenger side door, and took off the clamshell holding my side view mirror. We were only going about 20-30 MPH (traffic was rush-hour style around Renton even though it was only 2pm), and there was no one in the carpool lane where the nose of my car ended up after he bumped me. The guy is a disabled veteran, and he offered to pay my auto body estimate in cash since he had some sort of problem with his employer not renewing his insurance in a timely manner. I made a report to my insurance company just to cover my ass, and am going to get an estimate today, and then check if I can get the money from the guy. If not, I am covered for uninsured motorist damage, although I would have to pay an up to $1000 deductible, and the damage is probably less than that. Anyway, it's my first accident since I learned to drive just over a year ago! The weirdest thing is that even though I saw him coming after me in slow motion, I didn't even have time to react or honk my horn, but I wasn't scared at all. I seem to have this strange ability to go into a totally competent headspace when I'm in crisis, and only get emotional later.