bang crash

You know those ads you see on TV sometimes, for car insurance, where some idiot swerves to miss a dog and ends up dumping the car in a nearby lake? They’re kind of amusing, at least at first, but you’d assume those kinds of things don’t actually happen.

I am in a position to assure you that bizarre accidents do happen.

Take my car, or should I say “my old car”.

On Monday night, my beloved was reversing out of our driveway on the way to the shops when she saw a big spider on the passenger seat. She attempted to shoo it away, but it wouldn’t be shooed. She decided she’d head back into the driveway and go get a broom but forgot she was in reverse. She ended up shooting out of the driveway, backwards, at high speed across a pretty busy road, shooting up a slope on the other side of the street and slamming into a tree.

That clearly wasn’t dangerous enough, so the car proceeded to roll back across the street before coming to an inelegant halt against our front fence.

No-one was injured, thankfully, aside from some bruises. The car, however, is in dire straights. It looks like someone tried to crush it into one of those cubes they do at the wreckers, but got bored half way through.

It’s most definitely an ex-car.

The tree’s okay, except for the imprint of my licence plate about a metre off the ground.

Drama….

Running
Not quite so dramatic, an 18.5km slog of a run last night, from my place down to Blackburn and back. Today I’ll be forced into a bit of a run to the car hire place. Looking out the window, I imagine I’ll be a bit on the soggy side by the time I get there.