Honesty..for better or for worse?

My sis called it complacency. I called it being sleepy and lack of spatial awareness (as usual).

Point of contention: how i lousily manoeuvred the family car out of the parking lot and allowed it to "kiss" the left-hand tip of the car parked on my left.

I tell you, that "kiss" was so potent.

Such a strong caffeine booster that was: i made me turn from deadlog sleepy the previous second to super alert the next.

And the effect it had on the heart: capable of inducing cardiac arrest.

I tell you, if my heart raced any faster, i would have breathed my last that very second.

My breathing quickened. My mind turned blank for a minute.

Got of the car. Looked that the war-torn region.

Enemy casualty meter: Fair amount of scratches. Definitely capable of aggression when the realisation of injury sinks in.

Casualty at own camp: Nothing. No! Wait! Superficial scratches observed over a spread of 15 cm in depth. Ahhhhhh!! Ouch!! Ouch!! Ouch!!! Damn painful!!! So painful that my heart aches.

My dad is going to kill me. It's not the first time i doodled something on the car (kinda accident-prone). School-going children all around me. Did they see it? Nobody's watching me. Should i sneakily pretend nothing happened and drive off? Afterall, the owner wasn't there. And i came home late last night so he couldn't have known who parked next to him.

No, no, no. I can't do that. I'll be cursing and swearing if somebody just did a hit and run on my car.

Drive off? Yes. No. Yes. No.

And so, the usual angel-devil tussle played up in my mind.

Being my angelic usual self (hahaha), i did the angelic (some would say, foolish) thing.

Wrote a note to the owner and left. Gonna be late for school.

I felt lousy the entire morning, waiting to hear from the owner. Totally prepared for his/her verbal assaults.

Then the pleasant thing happened: he didn't scold me at all. He was nice, to the point where i thought he might the one who scratched my car and i was waiting to hear an explanation from him. You get the gist. He said i was nice to leave my contact behind.

Anyway, eventually, i didn't have to pay for any repairs. Phew. What a total relief!!!