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Friday 15- I did my stretches. I was going to go on a two mile run but Marcie Hines daughter called asking me if I could put the pictures of Lee’s memorial I took on these two electronic picture frames that she has. I told her to come on over and I’d do it. She and Marcie arrived an hour later with the frames and I installed the pictures on both.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 38 and 62 degrees, calm winds, humidity around 32 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming south southeast between 5 and 8 mph. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. West southwest wind between 3 and 10 mph.”
Ginger called asking me if I’d run down to her property and measure a door to see if a sofa she wants to get will fit through them. (What happened next is why this post is going to be short)
I jumped into the Gross Polluter and headed on down to her place about half a mile away. I was doing about thirty as I neared her driveway I put on my left turn signal, slowed down and started to make my turn when I heard a loud honk and just then a delivery van that was speeding behind me and trying to pass on my left smashed into the left front of my car as I tried to stop my turn after hearing the honk! When he hit me I saw pieces of the poor old Gross Polluter flying in the air. His Van went up on the embankment into the dirt and traveled for a distance. He told me that his brakes didn’t work when he tried to avoid me. He must have been doing sixty MPH when he tried to pass giving him no time to stop when he saw me making my left turn. Nobody was hurt but we were both well shaken up.
We exchanged information and he offered to give me $100 to fix the damage to my truck. I told him that it was more than that; the front side above the wheel well was caved in, the hood was so tweaked that it won’t open all the way up, the headlights fell out when the bumper was nearly ripped off, and the radiator came loose from its welds and is just hanging there. I can drive it at night and I don’t have a left front turn signal. I took pictures and will post them tomorrow; I’m just too raddled right now.
I did get Ginger’s measurements for the door and called to tell her what happened, and fed Princes (her horse) a carrot I brought for her before I left and stopped off at Stoney’s to show him the damage.
I got back home, took a tranquilizer, and didn’t do much of anything else but call my insurance company to file a report, write this to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 38 and 62 degrees, calm winds, humidity around 32 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming south southeast between 5 and 8 mph. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. West southwest wind between 3 and 10 mph.”
Ginger called asking me if I’d run down to her property and measure a door to see if a sofa she wants to get will fit through them. (What happened next is why this post is going to be short)
I jumped into the Gross Polluter and headed on down to her place about half a mile away. I was doing about thirty as I neared her driveway I put on my left turn signal, slowed down and started to make my turn when I heard a loud honk and just then a delivery van that was speeding behind me and trying to pass on my left smashed into the left front of my car as I tried to stop my turn after hearing the honk! When he hit me I saw pieces of the poor old Gross Polluter flying in the air. His Van went up on the embankment into the dirt and traveled for a distance. He told me that his brakes didn’t work when he tried to avoid me. He must have been doing sixty MPH when he tried to pass giving him no time to stop when he saw me making my left turn. Nobody was hurt but we were both well shaken up.
We exchanged information and he offered to give me $100 to fix the damage to my truck. I told him that it was more than that; the front side above the wheel well was caved in, the hood was so tweaked that it won’t open all the way up, the headlights fell out when the bumper was nearly ripped off, and the radiator came loose from its welds and is just hanging there. I can drive it at night and I don’t have a left front turn signal. I took pictures and will post them tomorrow; I’m just too raddled right now.
I did get Ginger’s measurements for the door and called to tell her what happened, and fed Princes (her horse) a carrot I brought for her before I left and stopped off at Stoney’s to show him the damage.
I got back home, took a tranquilizer, and didn’t do much of anything else but call my insurance company to file a report, write this to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.
