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2.Keep quiet and listen up

I had just picked up my new car, a very beautiful automobile if you’re into cars. A few months later, I was involved in an accident. That new and very beautiful car was destroyed.

The accident was clearly not my fault. The other guy was so busy on his cell phone that he went right through a red light and slammed into the passenger side of my car. It was even scarier because my niece was asleep on the back seat and her father, my brother, was in the front passenger seat. He was not happy, to say the least.

The police arrived and began taking statements. I explained that I had been going at about 55km. “So you were going about 50km…” he said.

“No, I said I was doing about 55km,” I said.

“Right, so you were doing about 50km…” again he repeated.

In a slightly annoyed tone because I felt I wasn’t being heard, I said: “No! I was doing about 55km!”

“OK, if that’s the way you want it,” this time the officer simply replied.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was shooting myself in the foot. My insurance company paid me for the damages to my car. However, I