I got rear ended on my way home!

I was just sitting at a light forever and all of a sudden I got rear ended. Not really hard but hard enough. I guess he was probably looking down and the car started to drift...I am not sure.

I told him lets pull over, I couldn't see more than a scratch on my bumper. He was young and had a girl in the car, he looked a bit scruffy but was polite and asked me if I was okay. I asked if they were okay. His license was bent.

I told him I'm okay, my car is okay and your both okay so lets not worry about it.

Did I do the right thing? I would hate to cause a problem over nothing.

Hopefully the good karma will come back to me.

I admire you. I know there are many people who would go bazerk over something so tiny. He was polite, you were polite, everyone was fine.... no reason starting something large over a tiny scratch that could happen anywhere.

Thanks Kay thats what I think too. When I first got my license I drove a big ford pickup with a huge bumper, this other teenager hit me with a small car...he could hardly open his door, his mother was screaming at him so I said don't worry about you have enough troubles so don't worry about me.

My dad was kind of ticked when I got home but there was nothing wrong with his truck so he calmed down, he was a softie.

I truly believe you do unto others how you want done to you, it doesn't always come back but thats okay.

That happened to me a couple of years ago. I was sitting in bumper to bumper traffic and put on my brakes and the guy behind hit me. It was not hard and my bumper only endured a very tiny scratch and his was not damaged at all (we both had SUV's) I just let it go. Some things are just not worth the trouble.