Now that I’m back, here’s the story behind how I almost died.
We were driving up to Mount Si to go hiking. We were on a three lane highway going 60 mph (according to one of the guys in the car, I don’t know for sure what the speed was). Since we were going uphill there were two lanes in our direction and one in the opposite. We were in the left lane with a semi traveling next to us.
As we came around a right turn the semi veered into our lane. In order to avoid a collision with the semi TBQelite swerved into the oncoming lane and punched it up around the truck before the first car in the oncoming lane reached us. Once we got past we realized that there was a broken down car blocking the right lane. The semi had had to come into our lane to avoid hitting that. Since it was around a bend no one could see it until they were right on top of it.
It all happened so fast.* Afterwards we all realized how close to death we had come. If there had been an oncoming car at the moment we came around the semi, it would have been blocked from view and we would have hit at a combined speed of 120 mph. I was sitting in the passenger seat but at that speed it I wouldn’t have been much safer in the back. Buick sedans aren’t meant for that kind of crash.
If my guardian angel had taken the day off I’d be in a morgue somewhere.
Of course, if your guardian angel had taken a day off, at least you would have had the comfort that he had been fired.
Sometimes I wonder if God does stuff like that to remind us how important life is. A situation happened to me recently that reminded me how short life is and how important it is to take advantage of what is in front of us and to not waste time.
I had something like that at Christmas 1984, on the way from my hot girlfriend’s house (now my hot wife).
In my case I was in the fast lane on a divided highway, and a camaro was in one of those emergency access lanes in the median. The camaro backed up straight across my lane. No time to brake; I swerved to the right, even though I knew there was a guy beside me. But my guardian angel nudged that guy’s car to the right as well. Everybody missed everybody.
Thanking God again on the remembering.
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