yesterday in review

All day yesterday I kept thinking about the ‘nearly could have been bad’ accident. All the ‘what ifs’. Mostly, what if I wasn’t paying attention? I know it was the other guys fault, but what if I wasn’t paying attention. I barely had enough time to stop. Even if I was distracted for 1-2 seconds I could have hit the other car. I already came so close to hitting it, especially the driver’s door. I would have felt guilty beyond words if I would have hurt the driver in any way.

What if I wasn’t paying attention, hit the car, the car sup into other traffic?

I’m far from perfect as a driver. I get distracted daily. Sometimes for longer than a couple seconds……cause you know, everyone **HAS** to read the text, send the text. I know cars these days are getting set up towards hands free, speaking to your car to call/text others. I guess, I’m slow with keeping up with technology. I didn’t get my first smart phone til recently. Part of me says the idea of a car is just to drive, not to keep up with technology stuff.

I called my mom yesterday evening, told her about the near miss accident, told her how things could have been bad. Luckily, everyone is fine. I’m just shook up. It’ll take me a few days to ease up.

I posted on Facebook about this (kinda short, more to the point version). I started out with a ‘life prospective’ sentence. Then went to say, “earlier this week I brought in cherries for a lunch event at work. A coworker accidentally spilled my bowl of cherries on the floor. She apologized, offered to pay for the cherries. I told her it was ‘ok’ and didn’t need the money. She told it was ‘not ok’.” Then went to mention the close encounter of the accident, then said, ‘things could have been worse, especially for both drivers.’ Then I ended with ‘Fallen cherries is fine when comparing it to the life of people’.

One coworker commented on it saying I should sue the guy if anything happened. I replied with ‘suing isn’t my thing’.

Another coworker said if there was damage, even a little scratch on the car, the other guy has to make it right. I don’t care about a small scratch (I did have some scratches on the car before…I don’t know where they came from).

An old college friend had the best response…..”Count your blessings. I hope the dogs are okay, as well as the people, or course. Honestly, I think the scars and the stories over the years more than offset whatever cost.”

While talking to my mom, she said maybe in a few days I’d feel any affects from stopping so hard (whip lash or other hurting body parts). I told her I had went to a massage therapist earlier in the day, 9 AM (near accident was around 2 pm). I was already semi hurting from the massage. The lady focused a lot on my neck and upper shoulders, as well as my tailbone/hip area (what I asked her to do).

The massage lady, Jennifer, is amazing. I’ve gone to this business several times, had 2 appointments with Jennifer. Usually I’m not picky on asking for specific people. But I am now. In the past I’ve mentioned my lower back bothering me….spend time down there. I feel Jennifer is the one who went above and beyond. Like massaging my butt, really working out stuff with my hips. She told me that my left side is tighter than my right, saying she would like me to do hip exercises (that was back in Dec), and this time showing me which exercises would help. This time she said my left hip was sitting higher than the right side.

I don’t know if my hips were always tight or out of place. But when I was 20 I fractured my LEFT foot and wore a boot. I think that affected my hip area. I also fell off a ladder at work several years ago, which I got a nasty bruise on my LEFT side. And the countless times of slipping on ice.