I wrecked my mom's car

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I was driving to get gas, and there was a huge SUV in front of me, and I couldn't see the stoplight. Whenever this happens I rely on looking at the cars around me to tell me when to go. I thought the cars moved, so I released the brake, but the guy in front of me hadn't moved, so I rear ended him. He was angry out of all proportion to damage of his vehicle (a few bumper scratches and a dented hitch cover, it was just cheap plastic and he popped it out) and his wife kept saying "we just bought this car, we've only had it a month". I was actually damaged worse than he was, my hood bent and my grille was broken. Some paramedics witnessed it and called the cops, and the cops took down our info. My car was driveable, I drove it home and it didn't overheat or anything. My mom says I can't drive for a while.

well at least the damage was just cosmetic

That's not wrecked. Don't worry, some people are dead fussy about their cars. As long as you learn from this it will be fine with a little time.

People in general are extremely excitable and materialistic.

You'll be lucky if nothing worse comes out of it.

In the future, look at the car in front of you and only at the car in front of you. Don't move until it does.

I'm glad no one was hurt.

I was rear-ended a few months after buying a new car once and didn't even care about the damage to the car. It was the fact that I had injuries that was upsetting. If everyone was okay, they really should just be thankful for that.

You're thirty-eight and your mom grounded you?

Everybody makes accidental bumps, that's why they're called "accidents".

Cars are a big investment, think about how you'd feel if you just invested a ton of money in something and it got damaged.

But it is just cosmetic damage and it can be fixed.

I borrowed my sisters car and slid on black ice at 60mph on a mountain overpass, went off the edge, flipped once or twice, hit a boulder while upside down that crushed the roof and windshield, landed 45 degrees against another boulder. That was a wreck.

But still, you have to have some respect if you caused an accident. I would be mad too if someone rear ended me, and not for material reasons. Just learn from it and pay more attention, everyone makes mistakes.

On my 21st birthday the guy I was dating and me went out in my moms car that was less than a year old. He totaled it and went to jail for weekends for DUI and I got about 12 stitches in my head and a big gash on my leg. She was very angry.

When she got her rental and then bought another car she didn't let me drive it or take it out either. That isn't being grounded, that's being told you can't borrow someone's car. Luckily I was able to get mine out of the shop soon after though, and I had transportation again. I did NOT let the guy drive mine either!

I wasn't drunk, or off my meds. My mom wants to make sure that my ADHD meds are adjusted properly, that's all. I wasn't actually distracted though, I just thought the cars had moved. I've been in accidents where I was distracted, before I started taking Strattera, and this was different.

I didn't think you were drunk or off meds or anything. I was telling you that story to maybe make you feel a little less guilty about your situation cause wrecking somebody elses car, even in an accident like that can really make you feel guilty. Kind of so you could tell yourself that other people have done a lot worse and the whole thing could have been a lot worse, so you could feel better that it wasn't that bad. Not that you would have done anything like that anyway, but just so you could actually tell yourself that you are glad you aren't me and feel a lot better about the whole thing and see that it might not be as bad as it first seemed. I was trying to be helpful, like when you drop a hammer on your toe and it hurts bad and you limp and then you see somebody else drop a washing machine on his toe and it makes yours seem better somehow