I rear ended a guy because I glanced at my phone, and now I’m apparently the villain in a full blown tragedy. This was right before his birthday and right before rent, and instead of swapping insurance like adults, he immediately went nuclear about how I “destroyed his life.” He kept listing reasons it was extra catastrophic, only car, needs it for work, landlord won’t care, birthday canceled, like the calendar somehow makes the accident louder. I’m standing there owning that it sucks while he’s treating timing as an additional charge on top of the damage. Now he won’t stop messaging me about being stranded, broke, and stressed, like I personally scheduled his problems. I’m already dealing with insurance and repairs, but everyone’s acting like this wasn’t a dumb mistake, it was a moral collapse. One second on my phone and suddenly I’m responsible for his entire spiral.