Many of you know that Adam and I were in an accident on Sunday.
<Rewind to Sunday Afternoon>
We went to Charlotte to see a friend and her daughter be confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Adam was driving and was goofing off a little bit pretending like he was sleeping – he claims to see how long it would take me to notice…
He is an awesome hubby and wants to make sure that I am always on my toes…
<Fast forward an hour and a few>
We are leaving sacrament meeting and are on our way home. We are talking and having a great time. All of the sudden, we start to veer a little off the road.
Thinking that this is another “on your toes” activity, I start to giggle a little bit to myself.
<A few seconds later>
We are still veering and it is getting a little more scararific. In fact, we are now headed smack dab into the awesome striped road sign about a foot off of the road.
Suddenly, I get my smarts back and get Adam’s attention. By saying really loudly “ADAM!!!”
He comes to and swerves out of the way.
I start to breathe more easily…but all too soon.
SMACK!!!! The rear view mirror hits the sign…
CRACK!!!!! The rear view mirror flies off of its mount…
SMASH!!!! The window shatters and comes flying at me.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I scream twice really, really loud.
Adam puts on the brakes and pulls over to the side of the road.
He gets out of the car and comes to my side. I am sure that I look like this:
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Sexy aren’t I?
He helps me out of the car and makes sure that I am ok. (Awesome hubby.)
Another girl who saw the accident comes running up and asks us if we are ok. We assure her that we are fine, then she points out that I am bleeding.
I’m pretty sure I was in some sort of shock, because I didn’t freak out like I usually do when I see blood.
We again assure her that we are fine and she decides that she can believe us and she leaves.
<Fast forward through us standing there shocked a little longer, Adam cleaning up some of the glass that is all over our seats, Us getting back in the car, Adam being upset with himself because he feels like he put my life in danger and feels horrible and also because we now have a new thing that is going to cost us some moolah, Both of us being thankful that it wasn’t worse and more>
Finally I convince Adam that we are good because we are both alive and it didn’t total our car. Hooray!
We start to be really thankful for the fact that Heavenly Father was really looking out for us. It could have been so much worse. AND when the rear view mirror came through the window it didn’t smack in the noggin like it probably should have. Neither one of us were severely hurt and my “bleeding” was less than almost all of the shaving accidents that I’ve had in my life. So all in all, we were good.
Now…comes the confession:
What caused us to veer toward the sign? Adam looked down while the road was curving…and we didn’t automatically curve with it. Huh? Since when did FORD not come with autopilot? =)
What caused him to look down? A nugget.
A chicken nugget, you ask…
Nope.
A golden nugget?
Negative, good buddy.
So what kind of nugget was it?
A BOOGER! That’s right folks, you read that right. A booger that needed a final resting place (aka a napkin) to dwell. Not just any booger, a “gigantic booger”. Nice…
Damage: $431.00
Story: Priceless.
Blogging about it: Legendary.
This is probably the least expensive “mining” accident ever. Adam and I are glad to have our place in history. =)
