Things Can Happen

Good morning!!

This morning I was going to talk about tomato sauces, but we had a "road incident" last night and it took away all my attention for a while. I'll talk about tomatoes further down in this post if there's time.

Last night we drove up to my church for a presentation by the Cathedral Players of  St-Exupery's "The Little Prince."  We left at six-thirty, already full dark and raining, and auto'd happily northward on Freeway 5 North.

Theodore was driving in the extreme right hand lane, the "slow lane." This sounds like a conservative lane to drive in, in the rain and the dark, but it holds two hazards.  In spite of the excellent planning of our freeway system, once in a while you get thrown off if you are not wary; that is, your lane has turned into an  "Exit only" lane without your noticing. The second problem was our problem last night.

If you are in the slow lane, all traffic that's entering the freeway at your right is entering into your lane.  That can be dangerous if there isn't sufficient maneuver room for everybody. That's what happened last night.  Theo was plowing forward when there suddenly loomed outside my right-hand window TWO vehicles: a car and a motorcycle, both entering the freeway.  The car slithered by just ahead of us on our right, and I gasped in horror for the motorcycle just behind the car seemed to be heading directly into the body of our car, in from the right side.  There was no maneuver room for us, but the motorcycle wisely corrected, yielded, and there was no impact. (A miracle.)

Moments later we were all barrelling forward and the motorcycle came speeding crazily fast from behind us, zoomed close to our left side and BOOM! An impact.
But he went speeding far ahead in the rainy night.  "He kicked us," said Theodore.
Unbelieveable.

When we got to church we realized that the guy had attacked our rear view mirror which is a huge invention on a swivel, and had broken out the mirror part. We were all lucky that the situation didn't turn out worse, though we are not happy about having to replace the mirror or whole apparatus when we are expecting guests this weekend and have other things to do. 

But we were lucky, both we and the motorcyclist, and the many others around us who might have been affected if Theodore didn't have steady nerves (the impact of the club or whatever he hit us with was very scary) to keep driving steadily on. It is just one of those things that can happen. And thank God  we are okay.

I think I'll skip the tomato sauce for today because it deserves a space of its own and Theo is up, needing his breakfast with YAZZYBEL.