That Was Close

Monday afternoon I had one of those incidents where God's divine intervention saved me and a co-worker from terrible harm or our possible deaths.  I work in the Street Department so I am constantly parking vehicles and stepping out to work on or near the roadway.  We were heading to the job after lunch when the near miss (if that is what you call it) occurred.  I won't bother to tell you where this happened just the facts as I know them.   I pulled the truck over and stepped out of the vehicle to the bed to adjust a piece of equipment that had tipped over.   When I began to reach over the side to pick up the equipment I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and yelled at my co-worker to move out of the way of the speeding pick up truck that slammed into the rear of the truck I was standing by.  I was less than two feet from where the impact occurred and and blessed to just be a unwilling spectator to the event.  Once the other pickup  truck made impact, the driver was pushing the truck that I was standing by because he had his foot on the gas still. When the big bang ended I asked the driver if he was OK and he said yes and that he wasn't looking at the road  when he rear ended the parked truck.  OK, I used to be a police officer in another life so I was observing this guy's behavior while the police where investigating the accident and I think he may have been impaired.  The investigating officer didn't ask either me or my co-worker what we saw since in my opinion we were witnesses( because he said he was at the intersection near by and saw the accident).  Here is the rub, the other driver got a citation (as he should have for rear ending a parked vehicle) but I got a parking citation for being in excess of 18 inches from the curb.  Now remember the other driver pushed our truck several feet with the impact.  I can't really say if I was inside the 18 inch zone or not but how can they tell if the other guy shoved the back end of our truck?  Anyway, I thank God no one was injured. 

Wandering in the Desert

Alone with memories
mentally walking nowhere
 stumbling over the pain
 in the darkness
look up for the stars
look to where the horizon should be
believe it will be there
and take the first step of many

Labor Day

It has been a while since my last post.  Melanie is back in Michigan and once again I am alone.  Labor Day is here and will soon exit stage left.  Bye bye Summer.  Hello Fall and cooler weather (I hope).  I have always liked Labor Day.  It isn't ironic that we celebrate a day of workers by not working?