flying boats

Day 10: Change Your Perspective.

Well the idea of this one, and you can read it for yourself if you want, is to go check out some art made by a female and blah blah blah...here's the thing, I got a big fat dose of "change your perspective" when I got...wait for it...HIT BY A BOAT. That's right...was driving down the road (and for the record I went 34 YEARS with one accident, and have now had 3, three!, in the last 6 six months...*big sigh*) and a boat being towed by a truck in oncoming traffic started to veer, I thought "huh, are they turning? wait, no...oh shit...oh holy f*cking shit" slammed on brakes, swerved as best I could, closed my eyes and braced for impact. When I opened my eyes some guy (who turned out to be driving behind the boat) was yelling in my window, asking if I was ok. I still had both feet on the brake pedal, both hands on the wheel, and was shaking. I had heard crunching metal and breaking glass and had no idea what I was going to be opening my eyes to so I was hesitant, but I did, and to my great relief, I realized, I was in one piece, not bleeding, and upright. The boat was on it's side next to me, my rear wheel was lying next to the boat.

The State Trooper at the scene said I was lucky...it could have been so much worse. I don't even want to think about the worse, but it's true *shudder* and not just for me, but the Pea...thank God she wasn't with me because when they took her car seat out of the back it was filled with broken glass...scary. So, while it may seem I have had a whole host of random and unlucky things happen this week, I, in fact, dodged a few bullets and have come out of it all relatively unscathed.

I got a new perspective alright, and I didn't need to go to a museum at all...course there are probably a few of you who would rather get hit by a boat than be drug to a museum, but I recommend the latter.