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May 4, 2006
Whiplash and other sucky things
FREAKING tired of people RAMMING into me with their FREAKING CARS
I'm sitting here with a sore neck, because last night - for the TENTH FREAKING TIME IN MY LIFE - somebody rearended me with their car.
Surely, I've used up my share of the universe's auto accident quota. Surely, it's time for the gods of BAD FREAKING DRIVERS to give me a break.
Please.
Luckily, nobody was hurt (except for what I hope is a minor sore neck issue). Luckily, I'd talked Navy Guy into driving us around for errands/out to dinner so we were in the big Ford truck instead of my little car. The 2 cars that hit us were smushed (those drivers were also uninjured; we checked on them first thing). My little car would have been smushed, which means my KIDS might have been smushed.
But we're all fine, in spite of FREAKING BAD DRIVERS. (The girl who caused it all? She said the car in front of her -- the one she rammed into us -- "stopped too fast." At a - gasp! - red light, a car stopped. AARGHHH!!)
And how, you ask, does this tie into "the things we do for love"?
Glad you asked. Because looking around at my unhurt family made me realize yet again just how unimportant the little annoyances in life are.
And how it's not only the things we do for love, but the things others do for the love of us. My son sat down next to me at my autographing session in Chicago (at the wonderful Spring Fling conference!) and started pasting "autographed copy" stickers on books to "help Mommy."
My husband once drove from San Antonio to Pensacola, Florida and then back over the course of two days just so he could see me for a few hours.
My daughter sits on my lap and snuggles and tells me I'm the "best Mommy in the whole world."
And these are the people I love best in the world, and I'm lucky enough that they were all unhurt last night. We'd driven by another accident about 10 minutes before ours happened. The ambulances were out in full force, and from the looks of the cars, I'm betting that people were hurt pretty badly.
So what would I do for love? For my family? Damn near anything.
Alesia, feeling a little sniffly
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Posted by Alesia at 9:51 AM | Comments (5)
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And now i'm a little sniffly, too, Alesia. I'm so glad you're all right.
Eileen R
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at May 4, 2006 10:53 AM
I'm glad you're all okay.
~Lauren, sniffly and wanting to hug her kids.
Posted by: laurenjharwood at May 4, 2006 11:06 AM
Damn you, now I'm sniffly, too.
Posted by: Whitney at May 4, 2006 6:53 PM
TEN times? Oh, you Poor Baby! {{{hugs}}} Glad everybody's okay. How's the truck?
Posted by: Darla at May 5, 2006 3:54 AM
Oh I'm glad you are ok! The last time I was rear-ended it was because the woman was "taking a drink from her water bottle". She wrote off my little car because she had to have a drink of water while driving down the road. Idiot.
Posted by: Heather Cook at May 7, 2006 12:13 PM
