Originally Posted by
elevenism
We got in a terrible wreck yesterday, and i think i got a pretty bad concussion.
We were Xmas shopping in Amarillo, coming from the mall. The traffic was insane. We were trying to turn left across 3 lanes of traffic, so my wife could use a gas station bathroom.
Cars in two of the lanes waved us across; the third lane looked clear. But as soon as we started to pull across that last lane, I look to my right JUST in time to see one of those big ass redneck pickups in the passenger window. Dude was speeding. I literally thought I was fucking dead.
My head did the JFK thing: snapped to the left, but THEN, violently back to the right. I cracked the window with my damn head and the cracks spread all across the window.
I slept from last night, when we finally got home, until a few hours ago.
My wife is telling me ALL this shit that happened from last night that I absolutely don't remember, including that I was nodding out and that my speech was extremely slurred.
I'm still forgetting words and shit.
Car is not fucking drivable. We don't know when it will be fixed, and we're praying the insurance will pay.
The cop told my wife it could have happened to ANYONE, including HIM, and that it happened all the time at that intersection, and not to feel bad, but that it is technically, legally, our fault.
Which makes this part feel even worse: my mom didn't ask if we were ok or any of that cool shit. She just started screaming at us.
Her friend who came to wait with us for the tow truck and the cops (who took HOURS to arrive, but to me it felt like a few minutes,) told my mom I was apparently really DRUNK, but it WASN'T. I was fucked off from from hitting my head so hard: OTHERWISE I'd have gone to the damn hospital.
My neck and back are all fucked up, too, as are my wife's.
And NOW, we don't have a fucking car, AT ALL, for god knows how long.
So yeah, this is kind of a RUFF xmas.