Crunch

At about 1:45 local time today I was pulling out of the garage on my way to get YG from school. There was a car (as usual) in my sight-line, but I proceeded backward slowly. What I didn't see was a black Hyundai coming down the block (which apparently didn't see me, either). The Hyundai hit my passengers' side rear and my car spun around and slammed, back first, into the concrete retaining wall of the house next door.

I am fine (tho my glasses were thrown off my face, and for a moment I thought I'd sustained head trauma because my vision was blurred) but the car looks, um, crunched. The girl who'd been driving the other car came dashing down the block crying "Omigod omigod omigod are you okay?" We exchanged data. The police told me they don't come unless there's been an injury: just exchange data and part friends. So I spent the afternoon making many phone calls. Poor YG, who was already upset when she heard I'd been in a car accident (she didn't believe I meant it when I told her I was okay--she thought it was a politic lie so she wouldn't worry, which only made her worry...is this my child or what?) was completely o'erthrown when she saw the car. So I called SG to prep her so she wouldn't freak out. We are passing on Scouts tonight and my writing workshop tomorrow, and cuddling down in our jammies and sucking our thumbs, metaphorically, anyway
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