Today was Eric’s birthday. Lame birthday if you ask me, he went to work (even though its Sun AND his birthday) brought work home, grumbled and complained about said work, didn’t want to go out to dinner..it was lame.
I decided to phone in an order to Applebees for their curbside pickup. Since he didn’t want to go out, I would bring dinner in. I left the kids home with Dad and went to go pick up the food. As I was leaving Applebees parking lot, I was sitting at the light waiting to turn left. The people coming towards me got an arrow, but I didn’t! I was annoyed – since we were the only two people in the intersection, stands to reason that we’d both get an arrow, right? As soon as my arrow turned green too, I slowly started inching my way into the intersection, being careful not to turn too sharply or quickly because I had a seat full of food and drinks. As soon as I do this, a big SUV, going at least 80-100mph, came out of nowhere, ran the red light and buzzed right in front of me. I slammed on my breaks, food went flying (so much for being careful). They were so close, I could feel my car wiggling in their wake. I would guess they were an inch or two from me. If it had been a car and not an SUV, I know their mirror would have hit my hood. And I knew in that split second that if I had executed my turn as I normally would if I didn’t have a seat full of food and drink, that that SUV going THAT fast, would have hit me. Not just hit my car, but hit ME. Hit the driver’s side door, where I was sitting. And I know without a shadow of a doubt, given the size of the SUV and the speed they were traveling, that I would not have survived that crash. I would not have come home tonight. As I continued my way home, I started shaking, and then I started hyperventilating and then the sobs came. I pulled myself together before I got home. As soon as I walked in the door, Allison said I was gone so long, she thought I’d been hit by a car. She’s never said anything like that before.
What if?
In my book that was a “God moment”! Thank you!
(((hugs)))