Run With The Fishes

Things started last Friday. I got into my very first car wreck. Yay! Getting into an accident has been one of my biggest fears. Caused by several things. The primary reason is that auto accidents seem to find my family. One of my earliest memories is of going to pick my dad up after he had been in a motorcycle accident. When I was about 10 my dad was hit by another vehicle when he stopped to help someone with car trouble. He was in the hospital for a while and has some of his leg may still contain metal parts. After my brother started driving, he drove off of an overpass onto the road below. If he hadn’t been wearing his seatbelt, there is a good chance he wouldn’t have made it. With his seat belt on he fractured his cheek bone on the steering wheel. A few years ago, my dad totalled his vehicle by driving under a semi truck. He was fine. My mom’s car got stuck on train tracks, she was also fine.

My accident was completely my fault. I was trying to cross a street (I had a stop sign, the cross traffic had none) and didn’t look left the second time. I didn’t see the other car until after they hit the side of the jeep. Luckily, no one else was with me. I took a conk on the head (may have knocked some sense into me) but that was it. The jeep may or may not be totalled. We might get to find out tomorrow.

I am just waiting for the hospital bill to arrive for the crappiest emergency room visit ever. I can’t wait to see what they are going to try to get away with charging us. I know for a fact all they did was look in my ears and throat, take my pulse, and listen to my breathing. Oh, the Dr. slightly felt the knot on my head. I went in there for a possible concussion. She didn’t check my eyes (which i thought might be standard), they didn’t offer an ice pack (which it says clearly in the hand out they gave me at checkout).

As fate would have it, we got the civic running last week when my dad was visiting. So, we had a second car. It was working great for us until today. When it decided to just stop running for no reason. That figures. We are out 2 cars. Don’t know when we will see one of them, and have know idea what is wrong with the other.

Maybe, since the week is up tomorrow, things will start to get better.

At least I have this : )

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