I didn't sleep well last night, which might not mean anything to a lot of people, but is unbelievable for me. John and I are easy sleepers. He is famous as the guy who slept through an audit - why shouldn't he? It's only money and he was pretty sure he didn't owe any more. And it was nice and quiet at the IRS. I usually sleep when he is driving. Once I fell asleep on a train and woke up two stops past where I wanted to be. Except for labor and an appendix attack, there isn't an ailment that has kept me awake at night. So you get it, right?
{And now I going to write something that no one actually needs to read - I am just using blog therapy. I have found that things that rumble around in my brain with no resolution can be banished by writing them in the blog. And I really need a good night's sleep, which means I have to get rid of this today.} {I have removed my graphic account of the traffic accident that was haunting me, because the Blog Therapy was successful and no one else needs have to have that image.}
I could blame it on my GPS, but we were the ones who misunderstood and took the wrong turn. The wrong turn put us smack in the middle of a construction zone with no u-turn possibilities. Isn't it odd how that wrong turn resulted in at least a half hour delay? And that half hour put us in a place we weren't supposed to be at exactly the moment of an awful crash?
What a horrifying thing to witness. I am glad you survived and I hope you can sleep tonight.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terri - I got a good night's sleep and so I took all the graphic details out of the post. This Blog writing is as good as a shrink!
ReplyDeleteGosh! I was thinking you were IN the car crash, but thankfully you were not. I hope no one was hurt...then again I'm thinking that if it was that upsetting perhaps someone was. That would disturb anyone's sleep. I used to sleep like a log anywhere, anytime, but the last few years I am subject to waking up in the wee hours and not being able to go back to sleep. Writing long emails to my cousin in Australia seemed to help a lot before I started my blog. I have loads of correspondence I'm behind with! I'm not a fan of GPS, not since the time Bill decided to take a different route to a destination and he and the woman on the GPS argued all the way across the country. He thought it was funny, but I told him it would have to be her or me...
ReplyDeleteI know one other man who argues with his GPS, (he calls his names) and am delighted to know there is another. My husband sometimes just ignores his and drives me crazy too.
ReplyDeleteThe crash could just have easily involved our car, if the airborne Truck/SUV (all I saw was the undercarriage and flames) had flipped toward us over the barricade, instead of the other way. We were lucky. Two people died. But the weirdest thing for me is that we were taken way off the best route by just the one turn and should never have been even close to this. Spooky.
Were you on your way home from Catherine's?
ReplyDeleteTerri, we were on our way, and we were on schedule to be there right on time, when we took a wrong turn - which I am sure was what the GPS told us to do. This put us in the middle of a construction zone with no uturn possible. By the time we figured out where we were, the GPS told us we would be half an hour late, so we were someplace we would never have been on purpose, and a half an hour later than we would have been there, even if we had wanted to take this scenic route. That's what is so spooky to me - we were directly across the barrier at exactly the moment of impact, due to a GPS dictated wrong turn combined with these other random factors.
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