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A Matter of Seconds
06.20.04 (5:24 pm)   [edit]
My skin is covered in gooseflesh and I feel numb. Two hours ago, I left my apartment to go to the grocery store. As I locked the door, I realized I had forgotten my sunglasses. I unlocked the door and went back inside to get them and then headed out again. The turn around took about 20 seconds. As I made my way towards the intersection I had to cross to get to the store, I heard a loud crash looked up and heard another loud crash. A sedan had tried to cross the intersection and a Jeep plowed into the side of it. The sedan then rebounded on to the sidewalk into the street sign at the exact spot I would have been standing waiting for the light to change if I had not gone back inside my apartment to get my sunglasses.

Finally, both cars came to a rest. The Jeep stopped across the street in one corner and the sedan remained on the sidewalk parked over the street sign. I was in a daze, I found myself walking forward, not really aware of where exactly I was headed or what I was doing. I saw the sedan. It was now shaped like a C. The entire passenger side, front and back, was crushed. Fortunately, the driver was alone in the car. I have no doubt in my mind that no passenger could have survived that hit. The passenger side was gone. Just gone. I heard a siren. There's a medical center a block down the road from me. EMS was on their way. I blinked. Suddenly, I found myself in front of the grocery store. I'm not sure how I got there. I guess I just kept walking. All I could think about was those 20 seconds at my apartment. How I'd bitched to myself that I should have just gone without my sunglasses and how I was a complete wimp about the sun.

I walked through the aisles of the store with a perplexed look on my face. I looked at all the people and thought "Do they know how fragile life is?" I found myself in front of the yogurt in the dairy aisle and realized I was hyperventilating. People eyed me with curiosity. I took a deep breath and headed to check out. At the check out stand was a black and white scandal rag - Star Magazine. The headline - "Dick Cheney is a Robot like in The Stepford Wives: when he goes to get his heart checked it's to get his circuits reconfigured". I found myself laughing out loud hysterically. I had to try really hard to stop. Again, people eyed me curiously. I guess, I needed something to relieve the tension.

I have no doubt in my heart that there is a God.
 


posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 06.20.04 (2:30 pm)

Reply to: KRAZEDONE
I know. Thanks.



posted by: elusivestate (reply)
post date: 06.20.04 (2:30 pm)

wow. i guess its true what they say. everything happens for a reason. your story gave me the chills. i am so glad you are okay.



posted by: lynne (reply)
post date: 06.21.04 (6:19 am)

I am glad you are ok. And maybe now you will stop giving yourself a hard time about going back to the house to get things like sunglasses?




posted by: Cyberpal (reply)
post date: 06.21.04 (7:42 am)

That was spooky!! God works in mysterious ways!! Glad you're okay! ;)



posted by: mblog (reply)
post date: 06.21.04 (7:44 am)

Yes, if things had been different, they would have been different. That driver may have been thinking how lucky he was that he had no passengers, and that EMS was so close by. Or he may have been thinking to himself that if he had gone back for his sunglasses as he planned, this whole thing never would have happened.



posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 06.21.04 (8:48 am)

Reply to: mblog
You mock me.



posted by: mblog (reply)
post date: 06.21.04 (9:56 am)

Reply to: dangerkitty

No I don't mock you and I didn't mean to mock you. But one person's good fortune may be another person's bad fortune. Sooner or later, we all end up being the person in the accident, and had something gone a bit differently, it wouldn't have happened.

If you think that's all part of God's plan, I won't argue with you.



posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 06.21.04 (9:57 am)

Reply to: mblog
Ok. Sorry I misunderstood you. :-(

Still love ya though.



posted by: fotocali (reply)
post date: 06.22.04 (9:49 am)

Deary dear!! I'm glad you're a wimp with your eyes! However, I couldn't help but thinking this: you weren't even IN the accident and you're hyperventlating as if you were! Chill hon! Think also of this: maybe if you were at the intersection, the sedan would have STOPPED because the driver saw this cute chick walking along or standing there. There are many possibilities.

Also, the God thing at the end kinda threw me, tho. That ending sentence was like screeching to a stop; like a funny sour note at the end of a symphony; like a joke punchline that just makes people scratch their heads. I mean - me, a devout athiest since I was like 6 (oh yeah, I distinctly remember poo-pooing the whole 'God' concept) - your story, and then the ending line about God followed, logically, something like this:

'John left the house to catch the bus at 4:15. The bus left at 4:05. Therefore, whales grow on trees.'

[Where John's intent is you; the bus schedule is reality, and 'therefore' is akin to you 'knowing' (that there is a god), and whales are as appropriate to John's story as God is to yours, and that whales grow on trees is as true as your implication that God's 'existence' saved you.]

This convoluted thinking is the result of: 1) an insane mind that thinks too much and makes analogies of the most far-fetched kind and 2) atheism. This is how a creative (read: insane) atheist mind works.

You believe what you like; all I know is that I'm glad you're OK. That's reality.



posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 06.22.04 (10:16 am)

Reply to: fotocali
Well, thanks for the insight into the mind of a complete nutter. :-}

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