hey guys

had a really bad day yesterday

You may know that I'm a delivery driver,
well yesterday I had a crash in my van.
One of our other drivers was ill so I had to do his run,
which I don't know.
I was already frustrated cos I was late in the morning :o

I constantly had my head in the A-Z (roadmap),
I would look at the map, drive, forget my directions,
pull over, look at the map again, drive off, forget again,
pull over....(arggghhhh!!!!!:mad::mad:)
My usual run is in central London whish is more busy
and my drops are closer, basically not much time to lose focus.
Anyway I was driving down one road which had slow moving traffic,
which I absolutley hate. my focus was all over the place
had a car in front of me that moved off then..........boom!!!
( talk about getting your focus back) to be honest I don't really
know if the car moved.
anyway the usual changing details happened, then the woman took
her crying baby out of the back seat, I said I was really sorry
(probably an autoresponse than a feeling):o, she turned to me
and said "sorry is not good enuff", When I heard this I nearly lost
it with the woman
even though I knew she was worried about things but I thought
I say sorry and you don't want to accept it :mad::mad::mad:
Then she left, her car had a little dent (those BMW X5,s are like tanks)
while the front of my van caved in (my van is made of paper:)),anyway when she left I suddenley felt so angry
I felt like david banner
turning into hulk. I almost wanted to lift up the van and throw it acroos the road
I know I wasn't angry about the crash I was angry at myself for letting it happen.
I just wanted to share with my new family.

P.s. I was also frustrated cos I left my trolley at the first drop but I didn't realise
until I had some heavy boxes to deliver on the 6th drop, funny really cos I been in the back of the van five times already:confused::faint::eyebrow::eek::mad::D!!

you are not alone!

Some folks say that if you're bad you go to hell...and if I ever do it will look like your day. Waiting in SLOW traffic and getting lost and losing things. That will be the hell I go to! :D

Stop beating yourself up over it when stuff like this happens. Look for the good part of it. If you were a crazy driver instead of a space case you might have actually injured or killed her baby....but you just shook them up a little.
Maybe you did the woman a favor because she was probably *****ing all morning about how she always had to take the kid to child care and it is such a pain...and you changed her perspective: Now she is SO happy that her baby is alive and safe and if her husband was driving in his little Honda the baby would have been killed....so it's better that it happened in that tank X5 so everyone is alright.

my most violent fantasies of murder are all in slow traffic, so you cannot beat yourself up about that...it happens to everyone. I think majority of accidents are in slow traffic, truly.

that ' sorry isn't good enough" is a mother type statement for sure, cuz she had the life scared out of her and I bet she was angry/scared like you were too. It was mutual??

Best of all, noone was injured. That was lucky and no youwill n ot go to hell, well, not right away....;)

thanks guys

Hi all, new here just tonight.
What I want to say is I am a delivery driver as well, and I wonder if it isn't a very common adhd job?
I love moving about, stopping here, there, everywhere.
maybe along with sales, this type of work should be a regular recommendation to people who ask about add friendly jobs.

Jeez what a day. I wrote down one of my worst days in the thread How do you cope? It was a bad day alright and so was yours. Did you have to pay any damage?