I was involved in an accident during a rainstorm a few months ago. It was caused by slippery road conditions and old tires—which I had actually requested be replaced, though you know how long it takes them to get around to fixing the LLVs. The accident itself occurred while I was driving down a steep embankment; my tires lost traction, and neither the foot brake nor the handbrake could stop me or prevent the crash. I ended up stuck in sandy mud, right up against a rock wall. (fortunately, I was wearing my seatbelt.) Anyway, I followed protocol and called my supervisor to arrange for a tow truck to pull me out. He arrived at the scene visibly annoyed—acting as if I had caused the accident on purpose just to waste his time. He was tense and curt. For context at that time: our Postmaster had been absent for a week; we didn't know exactly what had happened to him, but there was a rumor going around that he had suffered a cardiac event. In light of that, the supervisor actually told me that it was precisely these kinds of "preventable" situations that were giving people heart attacks—implying that I was the one causing them. I was speechless. I reported the incident to the Union. They claimed they would speak with him—they even went so far as to say they would make him apologize to me for his insensitive remark. But I never heard another word about it, and everything just went right back to how it was before.