7:30 a.m. I woke up at my girlfriend’s apartment. The plan today is to drop off the flex car that she had been renting, because she had gotten the used 2003 Honda Pilot for cheap that I helped her get fixed and inspected so that she doesn’t have to continue getting robbed by the flex car rental agency.
9:00 a.m. I drove towards my friend’s house in Danvers. He wasn’t home so I stopped by his work and I talked to him. Like a lot of us, he has some stuff going on in his life such as substance use issues, and family issues, so it’s good to have a conversation on both our parts. I spend some time in his apartment taking a shower and washing my clothes. I needed to give myself a haircut so I use his buzzers to shave my head.
2:30 p.m. I’ve been hanging around my friend’s apartment waiting for my girlfriend to get ready to drop off the flex car at the The flex car rental agency. It’s in Auburn Mass so it’s more than an hour drive. I was hoping to start heading out that way before 1:00, but she had errands to run and she had to drop off her son with his father. We’ve been texting back and forth and she finally picks me up at around 4:00 p.m. We drive together to pick up the flex car that is at her work down the street, The rental car is a Mitsubishi outlander. She drives the Mitsubishi outlander and I drive the Pilot all the way out to Auburn Mass.
4:30 p.m. I had arrived at the Flex car rental place, and was waiting for her to arrive. I get a phone call from her while I’m waiting and she tells me that she crashed the car and she was only about 4 minutes away from the rental place! I’m at first glad to hear that she’s okay and there are people there helping her, other drivers said that they had seen the accident. She slipped on a patch of snow or ice and the car careened out of control. I went into the flex car rental agency and explained to them what happened. They gave me information about what happens when there’s an accident and I sent a picture to her of a number to call. Her and I exchanged a lot of texts back and forth. The police end up coming and a tow truck comes and takes the car. The location she sends me is not close to where she actually is because she’s on an off-ramp. The whole situation is stressful and she’s really freaked out. I ended up seeing the tow truck with her Flex Car on it coming down the off ramp, she’s also in the tow truck, so I follow them. The tow truck driver pulls over in a parking lot so I can pick up my girlfriend and direct the tow truck driver to the Flex car office. I had been talking to the tow truck driver on my girlfriend’s phone. The tow truck driver ends up taking the Mitsubishi outlander to the tow yard because I refused to give him money and she and I drive back over to the flex car rental agency. We give them the tow truck driver’s information and they tell us that it could be $2,000 in a deductible for the accident. Considering all the stress that she had experienced, it didn’t make much sense to really iron out the details at that moment. My girlfriend and I drove back to her apartment and I decided on the ride that instead of staying outside I would stay with her, and keep her company after experiencing that traumatic incident.
HINDSIGHT: 10/24/2025
I kept my calm the whole time this ordeal with the crashed flex car happened. My girlfriend insisted the accident wasn’t her fault. I was and still am convinced the accident was a result of her not paying attention while driving. I can’t understand how she has had so many car accidents. The number her son’s father gave me was 7 car accidents in the time he’d known her, so the flex car makes 8 accidents. The irony of it was she was just 4 minutes away from the flex car dealership. She is a person that doesn’t take accountability and would blame her mistakes on others.