Yesterday was pretty shit. Had my first "car accident" by accidentally scraping somebody's parked car in the parking lot in front of my workplace and having to exchange information with him right before I could clock in. Problem was, I forgot to put my insurance info in my glove box after I got my car, so I couldn't give him my policy number right away. Was freaking out internally.
Was then called in for a surprise meeting in my department and while the meeting was going on, my phone was vibrating the entire time. After it was over, it turned out the guy was trying to call me, his wife, who was in the ER was pissed and was threatening to call the cops on me for not answering them about the car. I called him, he tried explaining that he was trying to get his wife to calm down since he felt it wasn't that big of a deal. His wife then called me, she was able to settle down and I told her I would get her the needed info as soon as I could.
As if that weren't enough, the store was swamped due to an upcoming "winter storm". (As of now, it's just simply raining, but who knows?) The toilet was clogged in the women's restroom and I, still reeling over what happened earlier accidentally caused it to overflow while trying to fix it and had to ask for help from one of my teammates. (Thankfully, there was more of us than usual)
Things calmed down after a while, and when I got home I finally got the info I needed and sent it to the couple.
For context, I had the biggest fear of driving for the longest while and due to having high social anxiety, that whole experience was probably one of the biggest contributors to that. I hated the idea of accidentally hitting someone's car and causing them problems. Now that's it seems like it's over and done with, I realize it wasn't actually all that bad. I just had to learn a lot of lessons the hard way.
I suppose the same could be the same for most things that happened to me as of late but, what the hell was I so afraid of?
