If it happened to anyone else it would have been funny.
The last thing I remember saying was “Can’t everyone just be quiet!”
The last thing I remember doing turning my eyes off the road to fiddle around in the back seat.
Next, I felt the curb.
I jerked up my head just in time to swerve into my neighbors lawn, avoiding a huge head on crash with the mailbox.
I did not jerk my head up just in time, however, to miss the mailbox completely. Darn.
My white Jeep bucked the 20 person association-style lock-port mailbox like a cartoon anvil.
Seriously, it would have been comical, if say, I was watching it on YouTube. But, no, it was me in real life…scared and crying.
The implications are overwhelming.
What if someone had been checking their mail? Sigh…. What if the kids had been hurt? How am going to pay for this? What if someone had been there, a kid, a dog, another car. What if, what if????
The police came and filled out a report. My neighbor comforted me while my nerves settled down. My husband sighed deeper than I have ever heard anyone sigh in my life.
My son, 4 years old, gave me a driving lesson,
“Just drive around things that are not in the road, drive straight from now on.”
Thankfully, nobody was hurt except my checkbook and my dignity. I have been thanking God all day for the mercy in the situation. No one was checking their mail, no one.
Fearfully Focused,
Messy Jess
PS Yes, Mom I will keep my eye on the road from now on, I promise, not even to look at my flip flop.
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Wow and it was a big one to take out
. Praising God w/ you that no one was checking their mail…that you or no one else was hurt. What mercy! I love Ryan’s advice…I can hear Jaimes saying the same kind of thing. Thought about how I would need to hold my tongue and not blame the girls.
wow, girl. so glad you are ok!
How, scary… I would have been shaking and crying too, I backed into my parents drain spout a few months ago, and felt terrible…. Of course it didn’t help that my 15 year old said, “I could’ve backed out better than that!” Thanks son!
I LOVE your blog! especially love that you ran over your mailbox! Your so human – browsed through your past posts and I love it here. I hope you don’t mind me visiting. I actually found you by googling messy jess – Jessica