Yesterday morning I was driving home from an appointment in Sandy. I had just come to the bottom of the hill after passing the point of the mountain. When out of nowhere...
POP! Kkshshshsh!
Hearing the loud pop (maybe from a rock, piece of tire, or hardened vegetable remnant hitting my window--who knows?), I instinctively turned my head away from the sound. A split second later, my driver's side window was flying in a million pieces. As if the proverbial German-aria-singing Fat Lady was a little sharp on the high notes, the window shattered.
Glass shards shot in at me with the force of a rogue astronaut who accidentally opened the space hatch without first securing himself to the shuttle wall.
Although glass covered every surface in the car, including me, I didn't receive so much as a scratch. Thanks, Mom, for always praying for my safety. I feel very blessed.
So now my beautiful '87 Honda that has a leaky sunroof when it rains, is also missing a window. Bring on the rain!
8 comments:
I, for one, and very glad you weren't hurt!
Glad to hear you're okay. It's a scary thing when you don't know what's happening. When Maggie was 3 a buck ran into the side of the van while we were on the way to church & broke the window.
I'm glad you're ok! As Charles put it when I totaled his former best friend, cars are disposable, people are not.
Hey a similar thing happened to me! Only it was the back window of my car (which, incidentally, is also a Honda). It cracked (from the cold, we think) and it scared me to death. Glad you're okay!!
p.s. you don't actually know me :) but I went to high school with Jack and found your blog through a friend - tell Jack hi from Sarah Tate
That is so crazy! I hope it's not my fault because I sold you the car!!! But anyway, I'm glad you're okay. That's scary. Are you going to replace it, or enjoy the feel of the wind on your face?
Wow, I think I would panic if shards of glass started showering upon me while driving on the interstate. Brady had a good sized rock hit his windshield, but a just left a quarter-sized star-like splatter; the rest of the window is still in tact (sadly, he just got his windshield replaced about 6 weeks before that happened). I need to vacuum out my car, too. Maybe I should do that before I am given a better excuse to do so, like you got.
i was going to do a post about the rock that hit and cracked my windshield a few weeks ago, but yours beats mine.
glad you're ok, manfriend.
Yikes!! So glad you didn't get hurt. Hey Natalie is good at fixing things, especially 1987 autos- ask her!
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