The bad part of the night came after the party bus dropped us off at our car and we were driving home. Brandon was driving (because he's always our sober-sister) and as we were turning into our apartment, a guy on a motorbike slammed into our car. Oh my god. I've never jumped out of a car so fast - I ran around the back side of the car and saw a dumped bike and blood everywhere. There was at least a full two cups of blood splattered all over the pavement..... but no person. oh my god, oh my god - I was sure he was dead in a ditch 10 feet away or something. But no, he was pacing/limping back and fourth holding his hands on his bleeding head. I grabbed him and tried and tried to get him to sit down but he REFUSED and just kept "sorry madam." He was drunk. Big time. The poor guy was 27 years old (we found out later) and he wasn't wearing a helmet. I can't believe he wasn't killed yet alone walking around!!! Our back window was shattered and there was a huge dent on the back of our trunk - how is he ok???? Ten staff people from our apartment came out to the road to help (yes, they really do work at 2am - it's sooooo weird). Poor Brandon had to heard me away and force Josh to take Nelly back to the room (she was seriously blacked out and it turns out that she didn't remember any of this). He was scared that the cops were going to see a bunch of drunk Americans dressed in Pink and automatically blame us for the accident. Side note: for those of you that don't know Brandon, he was completely sober (as always). That's why his nick name is Juice, actually. I felt so bad for him; EVERYONE came to the scene (cuz that's how it works in Thailand)...the insurance company rep, the rental company guy, the apartment staff, the ambulance drivers, the cops - and of course no one could speak English except for our apartment manager who was piss drunk. Poor Brandon!! He thought they were all talking about how they should just shoot the stupid American and dump him in a ditch to solve the problem!!
Anyways, long story short: the kid admitted full fault because he was driving on the wrong side of the road (they do that alllllll the time on motorbikes), speeding and he was drinking. He was breathalyzed and he was a .12% so I guess that's why he didn't think he was hurt. He has to pay our insurance's deductible (2,000 baht = $57.) and he has to go to Jail for three days. Poor guy. He was a drunk driver but I still feel really, really bad. Brandon (who blew a 0%) was cleared of all charges but he had to sit at the police station until 4:00am. Our car rental company woke us up the next morning when they brought us a new Toyota Vios (like a Camery). Hopefully we'll have better luck with this one. I HATE DRIVING HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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