In like 1993, I was 21/22...going through a major "stupid" phase...my friends and I were cruising pasadena in my car, me driving, since I had only had a couple beers that night. There were 6 of us crammed in a little saturn. This drunk idiot "friend" of mine started mouthing off to someone next to me. We were moving maybe 10mph. I looked to my right to see what he was doing, and I rear ended some girl. This "friend" started screaming and yelling, telling me I need to go.."go! go! go! go! get the **** out of here!"..normally I would have stayed but he had me so freaked out I wasnt thinking and took off. I peeled out down some street, went only 2 blocks down and pulled in a parking garage. Then we all rolled out and started taking a leak on the wall. Real stealth move right after a hit and run. I took off because my friend got me so wound up, and also because there were probably 30 open beer cans in the car. Well given the fact I was so brilliant that I only fled 2 blocks away and parked in there for 2 hours, a week later I got a letter in the mail from some detective at the pasadena station. It said my car was spotted in a hit and run and I could go to jail if I didnt respond. I guess someone drove to the parking garage and wrote down my license plate #. After I finished ****ting my pants, I called him and told him -the truth-. I said my friend riled me up, and I pulled a stupid move, wasnt thinking and fled the scene, and I cant believe how stupid I am and is she ok and all that...He was so used to being lied to that he worked with me and talked the girl out of pressing charges. My insurance paid for her damage (really wasnt any) and I asked the cop to tell her how sorry I was....only thing I didnt tell him was about the open beer cans. So even though I cant believe I did something so stupid, had I stayed there, I may have gone to jail for all the open beer cans/drunken wreckless driving or whatever they could come up with. I got real lucky. I have a feeling this girl wont be so lucky. She likely doesnt have insurance..the car is probably stolen or at the very least, its never been registered since she bought it. Maybe the car had drugs in it and she panicked. She's probably illegal. If she gets deported, she'll be back in a week. Such bull****.
On the other hand, when I was 19, my mom had asked me to stay at home and babysit my little brothers who were 10-15 years younger, and she would pay me. My mom took a 2nd mortgage, (against my dad's orders) on the house my dad built for us and invested in some shady junk bonds and then the market crash of 87 happened. We lost everything. My mom had to go back to work to pay the mortgage and started ****ing some 30 year old guy at work and then decided she hated my dad and never loved him in 20 years. So my parents divorced, and my mom took everything. I had a hard time finding a job after the babysitting thing ended. I finally found a job at JMS racing engines, but my insurance had just run out 2 weeks prior. I was about to get my 1st paycheck in 4 days, and then I could buy insurance. This place was only 1 mile from home so I risked it and drove to work. I was at an intersection waiting for cars to pass so I could turn left. I start turning my radio station and hear screaming and tires screaching. I look up and WHAM!..this chick hit me head on. She was doing her makeup and didnt swerve when the road did..the road swerves through the intersection and if you're not paying attention, you'll hit oncoming traffic. But at this time I hadnt figured that out yet. I was dazed and my mouth was blasted open and bleeding from hitting the steering wheel (lap belts only in 1970 cougars). I asked her if she was ok and saw all the makeup everywhere. It didnt process. So the cop shows up and gives me a ticket for causing the accident. He said I turned left in front of oncoming traffic (cause thats what the poor little crying woman told the cop). i said "if I turned left in front of traffic, then why is the drivers corner of my car smashed in? He wasnt listening. So now I had to go to court, I lost my license for a year and had to ride a bicycle to work for a year, lost my treasured beautiful hot rod, etc...after a couple months of going back to the scene, I pieced together what had happened. I went to court prepared and to fight it. The cop and the lady both didnt show up, so the case was thrown out. But it didnt matter. I was ****ed anyway. What really pissed me off was that this EMT girl who picked up the lady and put her in the ambulance, asked me if I wanted to hitch a ride down to the hospital..it was literally 1/8 mile down the street..right next to my apt. I said "sure" and next month I got a bill for 200 bucks for the ride I "hitched". Stupid scumsucking bitch. Then I get to the hospital and after my lip gets sutured, he sticks a needle in my arm for a tetnis shot. I was so wiped out and depressed from the endless barrage of horrible **** that kept happening in my life, that I was spaced out and didnt flinch when he stuck it in me. Then he says "oh you think you're a bad ass do ya?..Mr tough guy attitude!"..this is the dr. "consoling" me. He saw this lady who was all battered after an accident (she was 100% fine by the way..it was all an act until she found I had NO money)...the doctor sees this is decides Im a bad guy and he needs to **** with me. I swear all women have to do is bat an eyelash or cry and she can get anything she wants out of a man....so ridiculous.
to get this off your mind..
I should see the motor back and ready for assembly in 2 weeks. Then the Alum heads are going on along with a new cam grind. 
