A Frightening Experience

I had a frightening experience today. I drove home from work at lunch time. Our home is the third house on the right from the intersection.

As I turned on my turn signals and prepared to turn right into my driveway, a car came speeding through the intersection without stopping at the stop sign, and to keep from slamming into the back of my car, he flew into the other lane and slammed into a pickup truck that was parked in front of the house across the street. The speed and force of the crash flipped his car over on its top in the yard of that neighbor and he was trapped inside.

It all happened so fast that I could hardly imagine what happened. I parked my car, grabbed my cell phone and called 911. They immediately sent out an ambulance, several fire trucks and the police.

The car, which wasn’t a large one, had to be turned back over to get the driver out. The amazing thing is that he walked away without injury. If he had slammed into the back of my little car at that speed, I think I wouldn’t have walked away.

The neighbor’s pickup was considered totaled and was later hauled away on a flatbed truck.

The police car was parked in the street in front of my driveway, right behind my car, and it took quite awhile to get all the paperwork done. He finally moved his police car forward so that I could get out of my driveway to go back to work.

God certainly protected us both from serious injury.

The driver couldn’t have been intoxicated or the police wouldn’t have let him leave. I wonder if he might have been talking on a cell phone and not paying enough attention to the street.

Wednesday morning

I woke up at 3:00 and got up and put a plate of food down for Calvin. I thought he had waked me up, but he didn't come out for his food so I went through the house looking for him. I didn't find him anywhere but you know how cats are. They can disappear, then appear out of nowhere. That's what happened.

I was checking mail at the computer and all of a sudden he wandered through. By this time it was too late to go back to bed and get any sleep before my alarm goes off, so I just stayed up. I'll probably take a nap through Jeopardy and the news this evening in the recliner. I usually do that anyway.

Sis has been working at the Chamber of Commerce for the past week and a half. The job will probably last through the rest of this week.