TIFU by crashing my car into a shop

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Okay, so a little backstory. I'm a bit of an entrepreneur, and recently moved down to Mexico after purchasing a chain of 5 convenience stores (TAB, if you ever wanna look us up. I promise we're good) up near the Texas border, all pretty much aligned on this one stretch of almost entirely empty road near the suburbs, miles from any other shop, and the only place the factory workers will go. My drive from our home takes me round a blind corner onto this stretch, and (I'll admit it), I do sometimes rev the engine a little and speed onto it when I'm late (it's so empty i may as well be speeding on the moon). Anyway, when I moved down here, i bought myself a car. Beautiful, antique, Citroën DS safari (look them up and buy one, for the love of god). So our customers are primarily workers from the local factories, and after some bad experiences with the last store owners, they were eager to come to our opening weekend and greet us. Without thinking about this, i invest, i advertise, and i talk to people about how these shops are gonna aid the community. I employ locals, and by opening day, anticipation is roaring. I'd lived there for a couple of months while getting the shops ready, and I know the area well, so i know how much excitement there is. Our original plan was to open one store at a time, so we could gauge people's interest, but on the morning of opening, I (tired and already late for grand opening. Whoops) decided to tell the guys to open all the stores at once. Big mistake. As i zoom round the blind (usually deserted) corner, i see a line of cars, all waiting to park in our bays. Word must have gotten around from the employees to the people, and EVERYONE was here to try all the stores. As i say, i was late, and speeding, so i had no time to think, and swerved right into our first store, attempting to avoid the cars of enthusiastic locals. It was hell. My beautiful Citroën DS safari was practically in half, my store was ruined, and all because i misjudged how popular my business already was. ANYWAY, TL;DR, I had too many tabs open and safari crashed

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