This is my truck and it got hit last night on the way home from dinner. Let me start at the beginning.
So this week was my birthday and if you've read this blog for a little while you will also remember that it is also my sister's birthday. We were born on the same day but 5 years apart. I love sharing a birthday with her and we have our little rituals that we perform for no one but ourselves and we think we are both very clever...but I digress.
We made a plan to celebrate together on Friday night at first and then at the last minute we changed it to Saturday night. Sliding doors.
We first thought that we'd go eat one place and then changed our minds and went to another....sliding doors.
Bob and I discussed taking the 4-Runner but then changed our minds and took the Dodge Truck....sliding doors.
Dinner was great, it was my husband and I, Chick and her husband and my dad. Older brother and his wife were invited but didn't attend and that's just fine.
So Bob and I are on the way home and we decide to get some ice cream and we're going to stop at an Austin institution "Amy's Ice Cream" but we miss the exit and decide to go on to another ice cream place that serves 31 Flavors. Sliding doors.
We are about 10 to 12 miles from home and we're stopped at a red light...there are several cars in front of us and we are chatting away like normal. Just as the light changes to green we are hit from behind.
Ice Cream goes all over the cab of the truck, Bob's cap and glasses are thrown into the back seat and we are for but an instant stunned....what just happened? We look at each other and I say..."We've been hit".
Bob immediately gets out of the vehicle and I search for the hazard lights. The woman who hit us is crying and telling us how sorry she is. Bob tries to console her...it's an accident, that's why we have insurance etc....
He comes back to the truck and reaches for his cell phone and makes the call to 911.
Police are there fairly quickly and we assure them that we are fine...a bit shook up but fine so no ambulance is needed.
We know that there is damage....ABS light on dash will not go out as well as emergency brake light. Not to mention the back bumper and tailgate. It will all be fixed and if one of us is hurt in the next couple of days we will certainly have it checked out as we both know that sometimes these things take a couple of days to appear.
And today I'm actually more shook up about it than I was last night, must be adreline that keeps us going.....
So here's my thinking.....what if we'd decided to go on Friday night instead of Sat...would this still have happened? What if we'd decided on the original restaurant? What if we'd taken the 4-Runner instead of the Dodge? What if we'd stopped at the original ice cream place or the light had not changed when it did? So many questions you can ask yourself all day long..sliding doors......
We will wait and see how my husband feels in the morning and take it from there about wether to see the Dr. or not. I think he should be checked out regardless but he's a tough guy and it's hard to get him to see a Dr. for any reason unless bone or guts are showing.
It could have been so much worse, but it wasn't and for that I am thankful and that's just more sliding doors.
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