I believe! I believe! I believe!

Today I, in my opinion, had a near death experience. The closest one I have ever had, anyway. And, it would have been all my fault.

I won’t go into too much detail, but….I was waiting to turn left on a somewhat busy road. The traffic lights’ turning arrow was blinking, like it does when you can go if there are no cars coming. This particular one eventually turns green when the opposite sides’ light turns red.

I was completely paying attention (which is the scary part), when I thought I noticed the cars coming toward me slowing down, as if they were going to stop. So, I started to turn left. Into on-coming traffic, apparently. Then it happened….one of those sur-real moments. Suddenly, all the cars were coming full speed towards me, and I was in front of them, moving slowly. It felt like they went from slow motion to full speed in a split second. I was directly in front of one of the cars, about to be broadsided. There was a car to the right of that one, a little bit in front of it. Somehow, I managed to squeeze in between those two cars, and not get hit in the process. I have absolutely NO IDEA how I did that. I stepped full force on the gas and drove. Of course, it was in front of a lot of people, who were probably all yelling profanities at me (I know I would have been had I been them!). I was yelling them at myself, because that was one of the dumbest driving moves I had ever done.

Once I made it through, and was shaking and crying, I realized that I must have had help with that crazy maneuver. The angels and fairies were with me today, and could have just saved my life. And there must have been a lot of them, since they basically had to pick my car up and over the two moving vehicles to keep me from being hit. Or that’s what felt like should have happened anyway. I started thinking “I believe, I believe, I believe”, as I slowly drove down a much less-busy road.

I held it together while I ran my errands. As soon as I got home, I lost it. I hugged my dogs. Chris came home shortly after me, and I cried again while telling him the story. I hugged him. Again, and again. I decided I am staying home tonight, that’s for sure.
I just kept thinking that, at the very least, I should be in the hospital, if not worse. Chris informed me I was being rather dramatic about this, and everything did turn out fine, after all.

Yes, it did. Thank goodness.

And, I thank all those who helped it turn out that way.

And, it will be awhile before I make that turn again.

And, if I never had to drive again, I would be A-ok with that! But, that is unlikely!

And now that I blogged about it, I am hoping I will forget about it too! But, I am a believer now, for sure!

Until next time…