Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

I just got a call from my insurance adjuster, asking me to re-affirm my account of the accident, because the other driver tells a very different story. She's now trying to get my insurance to pay for the whole thing by lying through her teeth, saying that she never left her own lane (lie), that she had regained control of her vehicle after initially fish-tailing for a moment (lie), and that I then went over into her lane and hit her from behind (big fat lie).

I'm so mad I'm practically shaking and feel chilled all over in a way that has nothing to do with the weather.

My insurance agent seems to believe me and is sending me a statement to sign, swearing to my account of the incident. After that, I guess it'll be up to the two insurance companies to haggle it out. But I'm just feeling sick at such bald-faced lying.

I have enough things that I am responsible for to feel bad about, without someone who's already done me an injury trying to insult and injure me further by blaming me for her mistakes!

I just want to ask this would-be "victim" how, if I came in from the left and hit her vehicle in that right lane, we both ended up being pushed leftward into the median strip by the force of the accident?

I know I shouldn't get so worked up about this further proof of human weakness, not when real disasters like the tsunami are resulting in the deaths of so many thousands elsewhere in the world. But especially when there's so much misery in this world that is beyond our power to prevent, why on earth do we have to go out of our way to willfully cause more harm to another person? It's the absolute uncalled-for-ness of it that galls me most, when I'd gone out of my way to be kind and understanding to that other driver.