Well, thank the Lord they're ok first and foremost....but yeah, driving anymore, especially in
these old rides, we have to be so dang attentive at all moments these days.
Example:
Wife and I had Fred out yesterday running around some, enjoying the weather (finally!) and were
on the two lane highway back towards home, following some nameless white blob of an SUV.
Got to a rather blind right hand bend in the road and I instinctively backed off the SUV even more
than usual; I've seen some shiyat at that part of the road over the years.
Sure enough, about that time, here came a mini pickup in the other direction - and it was halfway
in our lane coming around that blind bend, dead in front of the SUV.
The SUV made a wild dive for the shoulder (which isn't but a foot or so wide there) and the pickup
driver made a similar, damn near sideways jerk move the other...and by the grace of God, they didn't
collide.
Truck wound up sideways in the opposite ditch. SUV had two wheels in the ditch on our side.
Fred was stopped dead behind all that and just fine, contents included.
Wife says something to me like "you must have been watching that SUV really closely!"
Nope, dear - I was watching in front of that SUV, like I always do when driving ol' Fred - I want to
see what's coming WAY before the car in front of us has to deal with it.
Better to be a witness than a participant, eh?
That said, getting rear-ended is the biggest fear for sure; oftentimes, there's simply nothing you can
do to avoid that collision and that's scary as hell the faster things get for sure.
