pampchefsarah
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This is not a rant, but I will start by saying I'm blaming the whole thing on my boss!!
I have been on vacation since the Monday before Christmas, but this does not change the fact that it's end of month and end of year (I'm in the finance department of our company), so there is still work to be done. Yesterday afternoon I made a second trip to the office (the first attempt was a waste of time, because my boss couldn't do the one very simple thing I had asked of him), to retrieve some documents so I can spend a few hours today, New Year's Day, working.
On the way home we (my 14 year old daughter and her friend were with me), were driving down a gravel road when I somehow lost control of the car (not entirely sure what happened, but my husband thinks, because of the type of gravel, my tires lost traction with the road and were only riding on the top of the gravel - which, of course, would have then been rolling around beneath the tires). The car swerved to the left, I turned the wheel to the right, and that is when I lost complete control! The car spun and flipped over. A very surreal, and disorienting, feeling to fine yourself hanging upside down in your car. I had the hardest time figuring out which way to turn the key to shut off the engine.
Everyone is fine, other than bumps, bruises, and some very minor cuts. One of these cuts was suffered by the Sherriff's Deputy when he went crawling through the car looking for my registration - which was never located. Since he couldn't tell exactly from where the blood was coming, he figured it must also be a small wound, so didn't charge me with assaulting an officer!:balloon:
Once everyone was out of the car, and we knew there were no serious injuries, the girls had fun with the whole thing, taking pictures of the car, of themselves, in the ambulance (where we were taken under the pretext of having our vitals taken, but I think it was really to get us in out of the freezing cold!).
I realized this morning that it must have been obvious I was not under the influence of anything, as the officer never asked me about drinking or drugs, nor did he perform a breathalyzer or other test. Praise God that, even though I didn't invoke His name during the whole experience, His righteousness still shone through.
Now, though, comes the real praise of the story. When the car veered to the left, it was towards an embankment, and had we flipped over that way, we would have ended up in a creek (I don't know how high the water is, but with the weather we've been having, there would have been some water, and it would have been icy). There definitely would have been real injuries then, so I'm sending up a prayer of thanks that God had the car spin in the other direction, instead. Also, that the vehicle which was coming from the other direction on this narrow road was completely spared.
Ahh, now to call and deal with the insurance company.
Do you think I can claim worker's comp, since, if I hadn't been forced to take this second trip to the office, none of this would have happened?:grumpy:
I have been on vacation since the Monday before Christmas, but this does not change the fact that it's end of month and end of year (I'm in the finance department of our company), so there is still work to be done. Yesterday afternoon I made a second trip to the office (the first attempt was a waste of time, because my boss couldn't do the one very simple thing I had asked of him), to retrieve some documents so I can spend a few hours today, New Year's Day, working.
On the way home we (my 14 year old daughter and her friend were with me), were driving down a gravel road when I somehow lost control of the car (not entirely sure what happened, but my husband thinks, because of the type of gravel, my tires lost traction with the road and were only riding on the top of the gravel - which, of course, would have then been rolling around beneath the tires). The car swerved to the left, I turned the wheel to the right, and that is when I lost complete control! The car spun and flipped over. A very surreal, and disorienting, feeling to fine yourself hanging upside down in your car. I had the hardest time figuring out which way to turn the key to shut off the engine.
Everyone is fine, other than bumps, bruises, and some very minor cuts. One of these cuts was suffered by the Sherriff's Deputy when he went crawling through the car looking for my registration - which was never located. Since he couldn't tell exactly from where the blood was coming, he figured it must also be a small wound, so didn't charge me with assaulting an officer!:balloon:
Once everyone was out of the car, and we knew there were no serious injuries, the girls had fun with the whole thing, taking pictures of the car, of themselves, in the ambulance (where we were taken under the pretext of having our vitals taken, but I think it was really to get us in out of the freezing cold!).
I realized this morning that it must have been obvious I was not under the influence of anything, as the officer never asked me about drinking or drugs, nor did he perform a breathalyzer or other test. Praise God that, even though I didn't invoke His name during the whole experience, His righteousness still shone through.
Now, though, comes the real praise of the story. When the car veered to the left, it was towards an embankment, and had we flipped over that way, we would have ended up in a creek (I don't know how high the water is, but with the weather we've been having, there would have been some water, and it would have been icy). There definitely would have been real injuries then, so I'm sending up a prayer of thanks that God had the car spin in the other direction, instead. Also, that the vehicle which was coming from the other direction on this narrow road was completely spared.
Ahh, now to call and deal with the insurance company.
Do you think I can claim worker's comp, since, if I hadn't been forced to take this second trip to the office, none of this would have happened?:grumpy:
! It just stinks!
