Jul 14, 2010

Today's Excitement

Whew! Wadda day! I took my kiddos out to a Library Storytime and on the way home, in stop and go traffic (about 10 - 15 mph), we were rear-ended!! The poor guy who rear ended me was actually from my church but he didn't recognize me until I gave my name to the deputy. The he repeats my name and says, "That sounds very familiar!". I thought to myself, "Well, duh, it should. I am the church pianist!" but I didn't say that to him.

You should have seen his eyes get wide as saucers though when he saw my pregnant daughter in the front passenger seat! She had waved out the window to get my attention and then told me that she had felt a gush and thought her water had broken. She's due to deliver my grandson in 4 weeks!

I called 911 and the fire deparment arrived within 1 minute! The sherriff's deputy was right behind them but it took the ambulance FOREVER to get there! I guess that was due to the backed up traffic that was already accumulated before I was hit.

My girls were very concerned that big sister went off in an ambulance, but the deputy was so nice and talked to them, calming them down. All of these guys were outstanding and I failed to get any one of their names.

The only vehicular damage done was to my back bumper and trailer hitch. When the church fella hit me from behind, he hit my trailer hitch and bent my bumper under a little bit. His wife told me later that he had not be driving for the past 2 months (she didn't give a reason) and this was his first time out. He was very worried about my daughter and told his wife that he was not going to drive anymore.

My daughter has been released from the hospital and is now at home resting as comfortably as possible. I'm exhausted from all the stress today and still have to go play piano for the church choir practice tonight.

I wonder who's gonna get voted off of this week's America's Got Talent?