[!CrackMonkey!] People Suck

[Mister Bad]

So, I got a message on my (US) cell phone yesterday from an insurance
adjuster at some creepy company called "USAA." She said that I had to
call her back right away, about claim number 8533-something-something,
and the accident I had on April 28th.

And I'm thinking, "WHAT accident on April 28th?" Because I didn't get
in an accident. And I'm running through my mind thinking: did I clank
somebody's bumper at a stop light? Or maybe scrape a car coming out of
a parking space? Did I stop up real short at an intersection, and the
car behind me got rear-ended, and then I drove on not noticing? What
is she talking about?

So I called her back this morning, and left a message with my home
number here. And she calls back and tells me that I got in an accident
in Berkeley on April 28th, that I smashed up her client's parked car
and left my phone number on a note, with no other info.

I told her that I was in Montreal at the time, and I haven't been to
the Bay Area since January, nor Berkeley since like August, and it
couldn't have been me. She sounded kinda unconvinced, but then she
told me that lots of people leave fake notes on parked cars, so that
witnesses see them writing the note and think they're doing the right
thing and let them get away. Otherwise, folks will write down your
license plate number, etc., and rat you out.

She let me get off the phone, and didn't demand any proof or anything
that I'd been in Montreal, and hopefully that's the end of it, and
they're not going to launch some legal attack at me blindside. If I
have to, I can provide receipts and stuff for that time period, not to
mention my visa, which doesn't allow me to leave and re-enter Canada,
but I'd rather not have to bother.

I mean, how low can you go? It's bad enough that somebody hit another
car and didn't take responsibility for it, and on top of that wrote a
note so no one would think twice about it, but they also fingered me
for the job. Totally at random! They could have just written on the
note,

        "I'm writing this note so that people who are standing around
        don't know that I'm going to just run away from this
        accident. Ha ha, you'll never catch me."

But instead they gave a random cell phone number, which happened to be
mine.

People suck. Berkeley people suck x2.

~Mr. Bad

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