Hit and Run

I think there is one thing that we can all agree on that is worst than being "Stuck in Lodi"- and that's being in "Stuck in jail (in Hawaii)". I came very close to experienceing this the other week. It's a classic Jaime/Jeni story. Jaime telling Jeni to do something and Jeni stupidly following without questioning... here's what happened:

Jaime and I were in our church parking lot. She was in her car and I was in mine. I backed up to leave and I felt a big bump. I thought I ran over something. When I turned around to look, these druggie guys were hanging out their car windows yelling at me and waving their hands at me. Yes, I had hit them (maybe I should have turned around to look BEFORE I felt the bump).

It was apparent that I had hit them. So I smiled at them with that I-know-I'm-an-idiot-smile, and pulled back into my parking space so that we could hash things out. I look over at Jaime and she is waving at me like a mad woman telling me to get out of there ASAP. The way she was looking freaked me out. I thought they had a gun or something. So I drove out of there as fast as I could (I'm suprised I didn't hit someone on my way out). As soon as I got onto the main road I called her and said, "Why did you tell me to leave?!" And she said, "Those guys were mad at you Jeni, they were yelling at you." "Yeah," I said, "Because I hit them." She then advised me to go back. I guess she thought that I was flirting with them because I was smiling at them and pulling back in. ???????? Thanks for the vote of confidence Jaim.

We went back to the parking lot and they were gone. Their car was there so we checked it out and there weren't any dents or scratches. And they were total druggies. They didn't have a liscence on their car, just one of those peices of papers that says, "Aloha." And it was awesome because a friend of ours from church was there and he looked around the car for any damage with us... there turned out to be none.