Here I am, driving down a 6 lane divided highway at 6:30 this morning, in the dark.  Good girl that I am, I'm on my way to get a mamo, 2 years late.  All of a sudden there's a big box-like thing right in front of me.  Too late to try to get around it, so I hit it square in the middle of my front end. Big noise!!  Threw it into the next lane.  Luckily, no cars there.

I pull over to the shoulder, put the hazzards on and get out to look at this horrible intruder.  It's an industrial air conditioning unit casing.

A coin shop owner comes out and tells me that it just fell off a truck and I just happened to be the first to come along and hit it.  He drags it off the road.  I call the police to get this on record.  They arrive, look at my car, open the hood to check things out, comment that my air bags didn't deploy and decided to leave.  No report necessary, but if I need to pursue it, just go to the station and fill out the "blue report".  So now I have a split front bumper with fibre glass threads sticking out all over and a few good fat scrapes with paint missing.  Cop says about three hundred dollars worth.  My deductable is $500.00, so of course I'm going to be driving with a ugly, damaged bumper for ever.

Go back about 1/2 hour........I leave home to go to get my thing done, drive about 1/2 mile and remember that I forgot my cell phone.  I drive back home, run though the porch in the dark and trip on a tool box...I was a little too far to the right in my hurry.........Oh, no, the tool box was not in the middle of the floor..sure.  Anyway I made a 3 point landing; knee, wrist and shoulder.  Tonight, I can't more the wrist. arm or shoulder with out a good amount of pain.  Maybe I'll get it looked at tomorrow.

Go back to yesterday about 4:00.  I'm leaving my patient's condo and decide to take the trash to the dumpster on my way out. The dumpster is in a gated area, so I raise the rod to open the gate and let the rod go.  It comes crashing down on my right index finger.  I thought it cut my finger off, it hurt so much.  Swelled up twice it's size and turned blue.  Still can't touch it.

I'm a wreck.....actually laughing at myself for being so, I don't know what. Never had a two day, three accident time before.  

Maybe I'll go to the E.R. tomorrow and see if I hurt anything.

Otherwise, I'm staying home tomorrow..not going out of the house.

Moral of this story.........you fill in the blanks! 

That's pretty awful, Donna.  Be sure to get yourself checked out, wouldja?  Sheesh.

Reminds me (a bit) of the weirdest highway-hazard experience I ever had.

About ten years ago, in the late fall, I was driving on the interstate east of Boise.  Late night, coming home after a week on the road.  Very windy out there on the high desert.

The wind was blowing huge tumbleweeds around, and they'd roll across the highway in front of me like giant balls.  Ever see the old TV series from the sixties?  The Prisoner?  Remember the big blob that chased Patrick McGoughan around?  Like that.  These suckers were a good 6-8 feet in diameter. 

I braked for them for a while, playing dodge-em on the highway, until I figured out that I could drive right through them, and nothing would happen.  Hit one dead on, and it would explode like a giant dandelion. 

After a while, it was kind of fun.

Nothing inside but air and little sticks. 

Not like the housing from an air conditioning unit.

Eek.

Best,

George

All that and you paid someone to squish your boobs between two glass plates?

I'd never go out of the house again!!!


(PS - don't take the officer's word for the monetary amount of damage to your vehicle.  A fiberglass bumper isn't cheap - probably well over your deductible)

Donna,

Hopefully the saying 'things come in threes' will ring true and you won't have anymore accidents for a some time!

Take care of yourself and your injuries.

Em