I was rear-ended in the parking lot of a restaurant yesterday. I was meeting some friends for lunch in our city’s South Hill, a place known for its nice houses and multitude of the elderly. A woman, looking long past the age of when one should drive oneself, was turning around in the parking lot. It was a pretty tight space, I’ll admit, but when she backed up into my car, she didn’t even notice. She just stayed on her task and drove away.

It wasn’t a bad hit, and I wasn’t actually in the car at the time. I was putting my daughter in her carseat, so I saw the whole thing. A nice man walking by saw it, too. He asked me why I didn’t say anything to lady. I told him that you couldn’t even tell on my car, and that it was Christmas. He shrugged, and that was that.

Getting hit by cars at Christmastime seems to be my family’s theme. A few years ago, we were sideswiped on Christmas Day as we were driving home from my parent’s house. Although you could certainly see the damage, it was by no means catastrophic, so we just shrugged it off and wished the man a Merry Christmas.

Although my husband and I pride ourselves on being fairly nice and easy-going people, we typically do ask others to share their insurance information in the case of minor accidents. For some reason, getting into these little scrapes at Christmastime makes us throw all convention out the window and just share a little goodwill.

I think that this is an excellent position to adopt in the case of our freelance writing business, as well. Lorna and I have gotten into a few little accidents so far this year. There was the client who never paid us, the client who made me cry, or the client I recently fired (my first ever, thank you very much). Although we handled each of these issues and moved on, I don’t think we ever took the approach where we just looked at the situation, shrugged, and said Merry Christmas.

Let me do that now.

Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone has a great holiday and enjoys some time with family. We’ll be back at the end of the week, ready to start elbows deep in the new year.

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