and got injected...
or ejected!
...but luckily my wife's car ran off the road.
by HappyGuy 40 Replies latest jw friends
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AdaMakawee
Glad your wife AND your vehicle is ok. Luck was running her way... if I was her, (or you) I'd go get a lotto ticket about now. lol
Ada
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Mary
She called me all frantic, so I said "what does the street sign say?", She replied "countryside lane", I said "my what a coincidence your hotel is on countryside lane".
Geeze HappyGuy---if you were still a Dub, you could get up there at the next ASSembly and relate the experience of how Jehovah's Holy Spee-rut guided your wife to safety.
Seriously, I'm glad your wife made it there in one piece. I got a call from my boss (who was at a conference in Washington DC) and he told me I don't have to come into work on Monday because chances are, he won't be back until god-knows-when. I said "where are you?"
He replies "In a taxi with 6 other people trying to make our way back to the hotel. I think they've called out the National Guard."
I heard on CNN earlier that this is the worst storm to hit down there since 1932.
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Gregor
Happy Guy, I understood and appreciated your wry comment immediately. I, too, am surprised that anyone would take it literally. My reply was also tongue in cheek but apparently it went over a few peoples heads also.
Ah, the internet!
PS -We have a hard and fast rule that we do not drive in snow/icy conditions unless it's an emergency, like being out of Brandy.
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restrangled
Wry comment or not, I do not find being in a snow storm very funny.....
I can remember coming home from Wisconsin in the middle of a major storm. My dad was following the snow plows. They got stuck and we were behind them on an exit ramp. We covered ourselves in blankets for many hours, waiting for them to continue clearing the roads. As the skies cleared they were able to go on and so were we.
Absolutely nothing funny about it. I'm glad this man's wife was able to find shelter without getting hurt.
r.
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TheSilence
My family uses humor to deal with things that overwhelm them and I think his comments were much the same. We don't all handle stress the same way. To me it was clear that he was concerned about his wife and just trying to take the edge off of his concern for her (and frustration over the situation and possibly feeling helpless and worried with her driving through a snowstorm) now that he knew she was safe.
HappyGuy, I'm glad your wife made it safely and I hope you feel better as well now that she is off the road.
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sooner7nc
Tonight, I fired up my forge to make a knife. The steel I'm using is a very old high carbon railroad spike. It is my opinion that the railroad spike that I beat the hell out of this evening, has a better sense of humor than you do restrangled. Glad your wife's ok Happyguy, and thank god about the car!
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Satanus
When i was kid, in mydad's old 53 pontiac, the road was so drifted over, that he drove on the farmers' fields to get home. Didn't have no ama to cellphone to, if ya got stuck. My dad drove miles through drifts, after dark, to get to some meetings. Twelve miles of windblown prairie. Your wife was lucky, happy.
S
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restrangled
Sooner 7, you survive a night in a snow storm, on a highway, in a car and see what kind of humor you come with....r
You can beat that metal to death,....it isn't the same.
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TheSilence
Again, we all deal with stressful situations in different ways. Point in case: my dad was given 6 months to live with stage 4 throat cancer. Rather than going with traditional medicine he went the alternative route and one of the things he used was diet. Every once in a while during his 5 year battle to beat cancer he would deviate from his diet and if you asked him if his food was on his diet he would say, "No, but it's to die for." with a smirk on his face. Now, some people might find that some morbid, black humor to refer so cavlierly to your own imminent death in that way, but it was how my dad dealt with it. If he had survived a night in a snow storm, on a highway, in a car he would still see the humor in HappyGuy's comment. I don't judge the way HappyGuy deals with this stressful situation because we each have to do what gets us through every day. For some of us that is humor, even if to others it seems black, disrespectful, morbid, or whatever.
By the way, after 5 years of non-traditional medicine my dad went the traditional route and beat the cancer... after he had initially been given 6 months to live. There is a part of me that believes a lot of his ability to do so was the humor he kept and his refusal to let the situation beat him down emotionally if he could help it. There were many things that saved my dad, and I am certain his humor was one of them.
Jackie