InstagramIf Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) accidentally hit your car, would you be mad? Of course not, and neither was Mr. Audie Bridges of Wakefield, Mass.!
The San Andreas star was driving to the set of Criminal Intelligence Monday when he accidentally sideswiped Mr. Bridges' truck. Fortunately, this fender bender was not a huge deal—in fact, the driver of the pickup Johnson hit was a fan, and the fellas actually became friends through their literal run-in!
On Instagram Monday, The Rock posted a photo of himself and Bridges by the damaged vehicle. "Here's a fun story to start your week off," he wrote. "I'm driving to set in my pick up truck—music blasting—I'm singing away like I'm having a one man party in my truck—then I hear a loud BANG. What the hell..? Look in my rear view and see I sideswiped another pick up that was parked in the street and destroyed the side mirror. First thing I thought was, 'Aw s--t.. someone's not gonna be happy..'"
Of course, being the upstanding citizen he is, Johnson "flipped a U-turn and drove back to scene." He approached the man (Bridges), and asked, "Sir, is this your truck?"'
As The Rock tells it, Bridges "stopped and stared at me for a good 5 seconds, looked around his neighborhood, looked back at me and 'Yes it is. Why?'"
He told Bridges, "Well, sorry to tell ya I sideswiped it and knocked the hell outta your mirror and may have done even more damage. You give me your info and I'll leave you mine and I'll take care of everything.'"
Bridges "stared at me again, cocked his head sideways and said, 'Uhhh.. Are you The Rock?'" Johnson continued. "I said 'Yup.' He broke out into a huge smile and said 'Wow, this is gonna be an awesome story!'"
The Rock "started belly laughing at that," he wrote, then Bridges "started laughing and before you know it we're both standing in the middle of the street pointing to his mirror and laughing like two ol' crazy buddies."
"I checked back in with him a few days later and he refused to accept any money and said he fixed the damage himself," he wrote, adding that he wanted to thank Bridges "for being so cool about the whole thing."
Ultimately, The Rock concluded, "Life is funny cause you never know who you're gonna run into... and sure as hell never know who's truck you're gonna sideswipe while driving to work."
Per the Boston Globe, Bridges posted a photo of himself and Johnson to Facebook. He also made a similar joke, writing, "Guess who I ran into today...or who ran into me?"
Funnily enough, Bridges told the paper he didn't know The Rock gave him a shoutout on Instagram until others told him about it. He's not on the site—y—-but told the Boston Globe, "My kids are going to have to show me how to do that today."