The Fun Never Ends

WILynn · The Fun Never Ends

After an incredibly BAAAAAD week, I'm sitting her talking on the phone with my good buddy and Center of the Universe Pam, when I hear a loud noise. I look outside, and I see a car out in the ditch in front of my house. I can see that right over the wheel well on the passenger side of the vehicle it's pretty dented, but that's about all. I walk around to other windows and see another car up ahead and figure that they collided or something. I tell Pam I'm not going out there.

THEN, I notice that my mailbox is laying out in my yard. Yes, the same mailbox the snowplow took out this winter, and the city just came to make the permanent repairs a couple of weeks ago. Yep, now I have to go out.

Well, I get out there and she has broken the post off at the bottom. The mailbox itself is probably a good 20 feet from where the post was, and the post with the paper box is another good 30 feet from there. How does someone manage this?

The lady that was driving was probably at least in her 80's, maybe older. And obviously shouldn't still be driving. Apparently her handicapped sticker had fallen from her windshield and "distracted" her. Well, she not only took out the post and mailbox, but the concrete culvert next to the driveway. Her air bags deployed, her windshield was smashed to smithereens and one of her tires was totally blown.

She shares that she's on blood thinners, and I notice she's bleeding from one hand, and that she has a HUGE bruise on the other arm. I mean we're talking a good 6-8 inch bruise. 3 police vehicles, an ambulance, a fire truck, and a tow truck later, they're all gone. Do you think she'd go to the hospital? NO. They really tried to talk her into it, because she really should be seen, being on the blood thinners, but she'd have no part of it. One of the officers told me they'd get her contact information and try to call her daughter to convince her to go in.

And now, I'm once again without a mailbox until God knows when. I'll have to get a copy of the accident report and contact her insurance company Monday. Fortunately the mailers have all arrived for the trip.

Life just doesn't get any better! LOL.

Jean

Lynn, how do you manage to have so much fun!

Sorry about the mailbox (again) hope they took her drivers license. Sounds like she might need to be evaluated before driving again.

I feel sorry when the driving privileges are withdrawn, but life is precious and it could have been a child and not a mailbox.

WILynn

Oh, I forgot to mention. In a bit of irony, earlier, when I had gone to get my mail I noticed a ladybug on the side of the mailbox. I was thinking it must have been good luck. I'm guessing this was NOT a lucky ladybug since there was nothing exciting in the mail, and now there's no mailbox.

LA

Jean's right though, guess it could've been worse. I'm still sorry about all the trouble you had to deal with again, but what baffles me is how one that is such a skilled gambler can't seem to keep her mailbox upright.

Take heart, Tunica is only a few days away!

Jean

Well Lynn, maybe just maybe that was a lucky Ladybug.

Considering you were not standing at the mailbox when the demolition derby was played out.

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slimster

What Jean said! Good thing you weren't out checking the mail when it happened. I hope the lady finally decided to go get checked. My wife has to take blood thinner, and a cut or bruise is nothing to fool around with when taking them.

WILynn

Well, the lady's daughter and her husband came today. They said they're going to replace the mailbox. Hopefully there may be a new post up with the mailbox sometime this weekend!

I asked how she was, and her daughter said she was doing well. She did go to a clinic to get checked out and she was fine. I guess her son is also a nurse and he told her as well to go. I really wasn't too worried about anything else being wrong with her, but I was concerned that if her blood was "too thin" she might be bleeding internally underneath that bruising. Fortunately she's fine.

It really could have been a whole lot worse. Cars can be repaired and mailboxes fixed. If someone had been seriously injured or killed that would have been so awful. She could just as easily have veered left into oncoming traffic, or hit the culvert just right and flipped her car. Fortunately, none of that happened, and there was no one walking or riding their bike by at the time.

Stew

Hey Rocky,
Look at the bright side: No mailbox, no bills!!!