“Re: Something to Prove”

"In reality, I was screaming obscenities and random German (I'd just taken a year of it)."

That's the weirdest part of accidents -- the way you react in shock right after the event. I was involved in a very minor car accident about 10 years ago where it was raining and the guy behind me didn't stop quite in time, hit my rear end and then pushed me forward into the car in front of me. It was very low speed and there wasn't even any physical damage to the cars to speak of, but I was immediately out the door cursing and just talking and not making any sense at all for about 5 minutes or so until I started to calm down and I had this feeling like I had just had an out of body experience and I was just now reclaiming control.

When I was hit on my bike as a kid I had a similar experience where somehow I realized that I had been involved in an accident and it was my fault and this idea just popped into my head that the cops were going to come and arrest me and I sat there for several minutes blabbering incoherently at the women who hit me about not wanting to go to jail! Very surreal.