Isn't it awesome? We had this great moment where we and the other couple (who were all apologetic, isn't there something where you're not supposed to be apologetic for insurance purposes?) walked to the corner where the Allstate office was. Everything was all collegial, oh, we have the same insurer, this is all going to be easy. And then suddenly there was a long pause and a lot of whispering and then bammo, the wreck was our fault.

And it was some holiday, and we'd been on a donated timeshare, so we scrambled and couldn't even get a hotel room to recover that night. So we had the car towed 170 miles home with me all concussed straddling the gearshift in the tow truck.

Fun detail from the wreck? I was holding an open strawberry smoothie at the time. We were hit so hard that my glasses flew off and hit the SO in the head, and my smoothie went splat all over the window, causing him and later the med techs no end of consternation, thinking my injuries were much worse than they were.

Later, the body work guys said that there was basically no way there should have been that much damage to the van (which was also totaled but nobody paid for it, funny) with me able to walk away. My entire side of the vehicle was crushed.

The swear-jar at work keeps providing joy. I ran out of quarters and wrote an IOU to myself (or rather, to Ralph, the recipient of our transgressions) in really bad handwriting and put the sticky on my computer. My boss laughed so hard she started drooling, which caused me to laugh so hard I couldn't breathe. And I keep laughing whenever I remember how she had her hand cupped under her mouth.

I told my mother about our swear jar and she asked if we were five. I said Yes.

Fun detail from the wreck? I was holding an open strawberry smoothie at the time. We were hit so hard that my glasses flew off and hit the SO in the head, and my smoothie went splat all over the window, causing him and later the med techs no end of consternation, thinking my injuries were much worse than they were.

I had a similar.

T-Boned by a car in high school - I had a large cherry slurpy stuck between my seat and the emergency brake, it was squeezed out and splattered all over both myself and the passenger. Nurses who were on the scene (driving by soon after it happened) were FREAKING OUT thinking it was blood at first.

It looked seriously bad. Like, brain matter or something. The EMTs knew it wasn't blood, but weren't entirely sure what it was. They were all...is that antifreeze? Yeah, no, smoothie.

No red drinks while driving, people. That's the new rule.

This morning there was a sucky wreck on the way to work.

Then tonight, as I'm driving home, I notice helicopters hovering over.... well, not the freeway, but my house. Which is bad. Two helicopters at two different elevations. Hmmmm....

Our nurse thinks there was a bank robbery, but I checked my neighborhood patch. It was a 120 lb. Mountain Lion that was in someone's backyard. Then on the roof tops. Then crossing the fences. Then on the move. From this morning until about 5:15, there have been helicopters watching the whole thing.

Big Kitty: [link]

Congrats msbelle!

Good luck Consula!

Thanks everybody. It just sort of feel into my lap, no interview or anything, but then I worked with all of them for years.

Wow, that is a big kitty indeed.

I definitely had smoothie ptsd for a while afterward. However, the next smoothie I had did not cause a life altering automobile accident, so hey, smoothies ahoy.

Yay Gud, Consuela, and msbelle! It's great to hear all this promising job news.

I also have one of those stories. A guy rear-ended my mother and sister. They had just stopped for tacos and my sister ended up covered in salsa. They went to the emergency room because mother's foot was hurt. The emergency room personnel kept asking my sister where she was hurt.

There's very little more boring than wall-to-wall coverage of tornado watches and warnings.

Ha, yeah, salsa would probably look worse, especially after it was all brushed off and just staining the clothes.

I don't miss tornado season, that's for sure. We got more rain today. Not snow this time, it was 61 degrees. Arizona for ya'.