My Car-Personal Narrative

I was rushing to get to a morning club meeting, so I quickly gathered up all of my things and stuffed it in my backpack and hurried to my car. I was on my way out the neighborhood when I realized I forgot something at home. So, logically I had decided that I would make a quick U- Turn back home to grab what I had left. One thing that I had noticed over the past year is that there is always a big blue pickup truck parked right at the entrance of my subdivision. I only had my license for a couple months but a simple U-Turn seemed easy enough. So I hit the brakes on my car, checked all my mirrors for any cars or pedestrians, when I saw that I was clear, I turned my wheel and put my car in reverse. I was a little worried about the tight space between my car and the big blue truck, but I decided to put my car in drive and I slowly turned my car, and as I did, I heard the slight screeching sound of metal scraping metal. As I continued to turn my car, I realized that the …show more content…
That whole entire day all I could think about was how, my accident was going to send my family’s car insurance through the roof. My dad didn’t stay mad at me for too long because he too, was more worried about that this would do to our insurance. I was hopeful that the owner’s might agree to my family paying out of pocket for the damages that I had caused instead of doing this through our insurance. The next day my dad told me that the owner of the truck’s mother had contacted him. I was anxious to find out what sort of agreement they had come to. My dad explained to me that the lady’s son was the owner of the truck, and she was understanding of the situation, the lady explained that she has children driving as well, and one of her kids had a couple months prior had received a speeding ticket, so she knew what it was like dealing with new drivers. She told my dad that she would like to speak with me whenever I get free