2 posts tagged “car”
It has been three years since I met my boyfriend at a gas station. I remember sitting at a set of lights waiting to pick up my ex-boyfriend to take him to the hospital to visit his sister and his new nephew. At that moment, I turned the radio off and looked into the sky and said, "I'm tired of going out with guys who are not good for me. If there is someone out there for me, then send him to me. If not, I'm finished with dating men who are not right for me. Until then, I will enjoy the summer and have fun as a single girl". At that moment, my car started to sputter. I thought, oh great my car is going to stall, its the middle of rush hour and I'm going to be stuck. So I knew there was a gas station about five minutes away where I could put the car, but it was a matter of getting there. I managed to drive into the station before my car died and there was Scott to help me out. When we both realized that my car wasn't going to restart, he offered me a ride home. Now normally, I wouldn't get into a car with a complete stranger, but there was just something about him that made me feel like I had known him for years. When he dropped me off at my house, he gave me his business card and asked me to keep him updated on the car.
That night, I sat on my bed with the phone in front of me contemplating whether I should call him or not just to say thank you. Well I did and he asked me out for drinks for the following week. I squealed with delight when I got off the phone.
The next day, my Mom let me know that she had gone to where I had the car towed and when she got in she decided to try and start it and the car roared to life. So she drove it to our mechanics to see why it had died. They did every diagonistics test possible and they found nothing wrong with it. So that weekend, my mom and I went to a wedding and drove around in the car in traffic and it was fine. No problems.
So needless to say, I believe that it was fate that I met Scott. Of course like most couples we have had our ups and downs but it has been more up then down. So who ever hooked us up, Thank you!
I have to say that I am sorry for not writing more, but I feel I need to start doing this again. I was going through an old box and found a couple of stories I wrote as a kid. It made me laugh because I used to love writing. My imagination was so large I couldn't contain it all in my head. So I always had a pen and paper to write those stories down. So I'm going to start here.
Well the first thing since being here last year was at the end of the year, just before I was to go away on vacation with my boyfriend, I was in a single car accident. I hit black ice going around a curve and rolled my car. Just as I over compensated by turning the wheel too hard, I knew what was going to happen and braced myself. In slow motion, I could feel the car being lifted up off the ground, the windshield breaking and the side air bags going off. When the car finally came to rest, I made sure I could move my arms and legs and looked around at the carnage inside. I was alive and I could move. I thought to myself I should shut the engine off. Of course I started to panic when I couldn't open the window and I stopped and said "Breath". I took a breath and realized that I needed to turn on the auxiliary power in order to open the window. Once I did that, I turned the car back off, pulled the key out, dropped it, and climbed out. I was lucky that all I sustained was a bruised head and a bit of whiplash. My car which I called Pepper didn't fare as well. When all was said and done, I had gone through 4 months of physiotherapy on my neck and ended up buying the exact same car and color that saved my life. (It also helped that I was wearing a seatbelt!) I haven't named the new car yet. We haven't connected. But I'm hoping that I will name her soon.
Again, like being burned, I just remember after all was said and done, I could have lost my life or sustained a more serious injury. I have become aware of how precious life is and how every day I have to make sure the people I know are aware of how much I care for them. I also have to make the most of what has been given to me since it could all just be rolled flat by a rolling pin.
