Photo: Tom Callow, edited by autoevolution
They say that how a man reacts when faced with adversity shows his true self. If that is always true, then a certain Tom Callow, from Wareham, Massachusetts, is one cool fellow.
He was recently forced to react in a negative manner after he found out that his parked car had been hit by another vehicle, whose owner didn't even had the courtesy to wait for the authorities and come clean about his misdeed.
Surprisingly, Tom didn't react as most of us would have, and that is because the guy who involved his car into a minor fender bender and then made a run for it also left an amusing note at the scene.
“Yo I hit your car. I'm leaving this note cause someone's watching… they're still looking… OK I'm good. My bad ni**a. Peace out,” the passive-aggressive and ultimately amusing note said.
Probably because the scratches on his car's bumper will literally buff right out and partly thanks to the funny note, Tom wasn't even mad about the whole situation. On the contrary, he found it so humorous that the only thing he did afterward was to take a couple of photos to illustrate what happened and post them on his Twitter account.
Naturally, the rapid rise in retweets also gave him his 15 minutes of fame, since Tom was even asked to do a radio interview and his story started making rounds all over the world.
What do we need to learn from all this? Well, sometimes seeing the lighter side in bad situations is preferable, especially when getting mad won't solve much anyway. More of us should be like Tom, and maybe not run after hitting someone else's ride by mistake.
Then again, there's also that old story about the two frogs who fell into a bowl of cream. Only the one that kicked and struggled turned the cream into butter and managed to make it out of the bowl alive.
Surprisingly, Tom didn't react as most of us would have, and that is because the guy who involved his car into a minor fender bender and then made a run for it also left an amusing note at the scene.
“Yo I hit your car. I'm leaving this note cause someone's watching… they're still looking… OK I'm good. My bad ni**a. Peace out,” the passive-aggressive and ultimately amusing note said.
Probably because the scratches on his car's bumper will literally buff right out and partly thanks to the funny note, Tom wasn't even mad about the whole situation. On the contrary, he found it so humorous that the only thing he did afterward was to take a couple of photos to illustrate what happened and post them on his Twitter account.
Naturally, the rapid rise in retweets also gave him his 15 minutes of fame, since Tom was even asked to do a radio interview and his story started making rounds all over the world.
What do we need to learn from all this? Well, sometimes seeing the lighter side in bad situations is preferable, especially when getting mad won't solve much anyway. More of us should be like Tom, and maybe not run after hitting someone else's ride by mistake.
Then again, there's also that old story about the two frogs who fell into a bowl of cream. Only the one that kicked and struggled turned the cream into butter and managed to make it out of the bowl alive.
Not even mad about the scratches lmfao.....Hands down the funniest thing that has ever happened to me only in NewB - pic.twitter.com/Mc3WD6P12H
— Tcalloww (@TCalloww) May 5, 2016
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