car accident can be a bummer

Well I wasn't sure what I wanted to talk about today, but about three hours ago I was in a car accident which has pretty much dominated my thoughts since then. first is the initial "why the hell is a car turning in front of me and bits of her driver side window shattering about?" followed by the realization that oh crap, that's going to leave a mark. Basically, on a four lane one-way street some lady decided to turn left, which would be perfectly fine if she was in the left lane, but she was to the right of me. Her first comment was "but I had my blinkers on" which, again, would be perfectly fine if he had not turned across traffic into my lane. Luckily there were no injuries, but we were both shaken up. She turned the driver side of her car just in front of me as my right passenger/front wheel area by the headlight plowed into her door and pushed her car up onto the sidewalk. It's amazing how fast these things happen and how you question what the hell just happened. A man started walking towards us, and I quickly realized he must've seen what happened. My first instinct was to to ask him if the other driver had in fact turned in front of me from inside lane. He said yes she did. Good. That puts a few worries to rest. The lady realized she must've done it based on where her car ended up perpendicular to traffic and on the sidewalk.
So then the stage almost as traumatic as the accident starts, which is the aggravation of knowing your car is damaged and it's going to be in the shop for a while and getting a rental car. I called my wife to pick me up and had her drop me off at the car rental place while I was on the phone with the insurance company giving you the details. Of course they tell me that my insurance does not cover the car rental, but hopefully since the other person was at fault her insurance will cover that. And what ends up being the most frustrating part of it all: they get me a minivan from the rental place that's nicer than mine which is going to spoil me for a few days and then have me disappointed when I get my regular car back.
Oh well. But in the end what really matters is that the kids were not in the car, and even though the way this accident happened they would not likely have been hurt, they would have been upset by the accident. PS once at home all they wanted to do was take a ride in the "new car."