Just when you think everything is going ok..When you think you’ve actually got things going on the right track…there’s always something there ready to fuck up all your plans….It all started when JackPot and I went to Walmart. We were just on another ordinary grocery run. We got there, got all of our stuff that was needed on the shopping list and we got out. We loaded up all of our groceries into the SUV and we were off to the dorm to drop off the groceries. Well, once we got to the dorm, JackPot preceded to reverse up to the door so it would be easier to get all the groceries out. And then we heard it. The thing that caused all of this mess to begin with…we heard the back of the SUV hit the hand-railing of the front steps of the dorm. Me and JackPot looked at each other and was like OMFG…did we really just hit something?! At that time we truly knew what the definition of fear was…He had backed into something..And wrecked the company car. Our blood started running cold as we both exited the vehicle to survey the damage. We walked up to the back and saw it. The tail light had been popped out, and the hatch had been dented. We looked at each other again and was like..no fucking way. This is so not happening for we knew what was going to happen once the boss found out. It was gonna be World War 3 back at the office. So we thought to ourselves, “What can we do or say to make this situation any better?!” Well after a second or two of thinking we decided that we were gonna say it just happened at Walmart, and that someone had backed into us. But the entire time, I was thinking in the back of my head, “This isn’t gonna work. We are only gonna get into more trouble by doing this.” But the half of me was so scared, for I knew the consequences that could be waiting for us back the office. And quickly I made probably one of the dumbest decisions I have ever made. We were just gonna say it happened at Walmart, and not at the dorm.

We unloaded all the groceries to the dorm, and we were off. But this time, Markell wanted to come up with us to the office. As every second went by and the closer and closer we got the office, the more terrified we got. We finally pull up the office and by this time, my heart is racing a thousand beats per minute. We slowly and solemnly walked up the stairs not knowing what our fate was gonna be, good or bad. We got to the top of the steps and rang the door bell. My heart jumped quickly to my throat and my blood started pumping even more. This was it. We were off the face the dragon; the boss.

Me and Markell go to the kitchen while JackPot goes straight up the boss’ desk. After a few seconds of pacing back and forth in the kitchen and just trying to figure out what he was gonna say, what I was gonna say and how everything thing was gonna work out, me and Markell walk up to the front and see what is being said. After a few minutes of listening to what he was saying, I knew what I had to go along with. I didn’t like doing it, but I was just trying to make the best of the situation. After talking with him for a bit, he dismisses JackPot and now I’m under the spotlight of interrogation. He asked me what happened, and of course my dumbass said the first thing that popped into my mind…”Yeah it happened at Walmart.” I just literally dug my own grave right then and there. In the back of my mind I said to myself, “What the fuck did I just get myself into?! I know the difference between right and wrong…and this was definitely the wrong decision.

So i just went back to what I was doing on the computer. But after a while, Rock and JackPot was gonna go up to Walmart to file a police report. And I said to myself, “Things are about to get really bad if they go up there..” So I texted JP and I said, “Don’t go to Walmart, it’s just gonna make things worse. Let’s tell him now before things go any further.” And that’s when he found out what really happened. I went over to the front while JP and Rock came back in. It was at that time I realized that I was in deep shit now, but over something I didn’t even do! I came up to the front couch and over heard their conversation and what had been said. And it all came out. After a minute or two with talking with JP, It was my turn. I made the longest walk of my life up to the desk and sat down. I told him straight up, “I don’t normally do this..we were just both terrified out of our minds of how you were gonna take this.” And after a minute of talking, we finally reconciled and came to an understanding. Accidents do happen, and in any situation, it’s best if the whole story is told upfront the second it happens. And its never, ever a good idea to keep something so major as this, to where it affected the companies personal property, and to not tell the boss. I honestly and truthfully regret doing what I did. I apologize from the bottom of my heart; for I know what I should’ve done right the first time. And you can guarantee that something of this nature will never, ever happen again, under any circumstances. At 18 years old I should have known what the right thing to do was. And from now on…I’m gonna keep trying my best to do the right thing, every single time. And I also have come to terms that this could’ve been the end of my career with this company as I know it. I would have literally just screwed myself over for the rest of my life…It’s scary to think how one minute everything is going great and everyone’s happy to where not even in a split second everything can change, and I could have been on the first plane back home….

Lesson learned today:

In the end your only gonna have yourself, and you gotta watch out for yourself because nobody else will. I could have fucked up everything I’ve worked for by just going along with what someone else had said or done. And that no matter what happens, just come out with it in the beginning, and you won’t have to deal with the aftermath later.

-codykyler.