Watch out!!

I’ve been having a challenging week with cars. It started Monday when I checked out a car at work to do some site visits. I pull out of the downtown garage, get a couple of blocks down the road, put on my blinker to change lanes, check to make sure the lane is clear and begin to move over in a nice steady maneuver, when the car in the other lane whips over without warning and nearly take off my bumper. (She did take a few years off my life.) She was of course was on the phone and had no idea that she had nearly caused an accident.

Several more blocks down the road, a man steps off the corner in front of me; I had a green light. When I slam on my breaks, he looks at me like, What! I just wanted to smack him!!!

Yesterday, I had a dental appointment and went home after. Later I had to leave for a meeting and was backing the car out of the driveway when I hit my son’s scooter. I couldn’t see it in the rearview mirror. I knocked it over and got a purple scraping mark on the rear of my car, and broke his kickstand. Aghhhhh!

Today I had an important meeting off site with some community members to discuss an upcoming project in their area. I go to the receptionist to pick up the keys to the car I reserved a month ago. No keys. We call the last person to use the car and he said he had turned them in. I go down to check the garage, and no car. The clock is ticking away and we’re scrambling for keys. I was just about to take the keys to the big hawking 10 passenger van when we finally found a car not being used. One person in a 10 passenger van on Earth Day being driven by a Bureau of Environmental Services employee would just so wrong on so many levels! Not to mention the hazard I am in that thing on tight streets.

The person who took the car sent me an email apologizing for his mistake. I told him it was OK, it all worked out. Besides his ears should have been burning, and if only half the curses I had been directing at him come true he is in for an interesting few days.

So, lets all keep our finger crossed (except for me when I’m driving) that I get through the week without a serious incident. Or any more minor ones.