So nearly two years ago I had the honor of rear ending a Christian Sorority girl in the back of her car with my BMW. Bad times. My grandmother passed shortly thereafter. All in all a very rough time.

However, I had this sort of light amount of luck. The responding officer at the time chose not to write me a ticket for failure to brake. I'm not sure why. Maybe he saw I was in a poor state. Maybe he figured all said and done the damage was worse on my end than hers. (It was.) Long story short, I just considered it a vague amount of saving-graces. He wasn't going to add insult to injury.

At the time--no big deal.

Now--a REALLY big deal.

I'm looking to apply to Western Dairy Transport as a CDL driver. They have a driver training course they do and it pays good money too. I just need to get my CDL permit in the mean time by taking the written course. Also I have to wait a month before turn 23 before I can apply. It was one of the requirements. Two more distinct requirements were---

-No more than 1 at-fault accidents in the past year.
-No rear end collision accidents in the past 3 years.

Scrambling, I requested a copy of my driving record online to see what all was what---and I'm in the clear!!! In Texas, apparently a non-ticketed accident doesn't show up on a report. And what was once a minor "thanks I guess..." is now a "OH DANG. THANK YOU MR. ANONYMOUS POLICE OFFICER WHOSE NAME I DON'T RECALL."

Seriously, Instead of waiting an entire year to start my driving career, I only have to wait a month. This is... really astounding. What I originally thought was the icing on the luck cake (no injury, no lawsuit, no ticket) turned out to be the batter, pan and oven. There WOULD be no cake without that one police officer who gave me the pass that one cold winter day when I trashed my car.

Keeping to the alignment of the planets,

~Red