{further adventures of Elizabeth}: the truck that almost ate us on our way to the craft store

Life is not always full with roses,

but thankfully the following adventure

left us shaken but unscathed....

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My craft quilting friend came over to help

me with a secret project for Mr. Husband, and we 

ascertained that we needed to go to a craft store,

the nearest one being about 16 minute drive away....

After a near miss when a car came out of no where

right as I was turning left,

we were doing fine 

(my friend did tell me it was then that she understood

her life was protected by the Good Lord but

she is still my friend, which is a sign of true friendship)...

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She did ask me 'how often do you drive'? somewhere

after that misstep in things.

But all seemed fine...

until we ended up meeting what I now call

the biggest truck in the world

otherwise known as an 18 wheeler truck with

hauling two trailers.

I need visuals to explain this unexpected

adventure, so welcome to my 

drawings on post-it notes. :)

As you see above, I was waiting for the red light

on a T intersection, 

I am sure my friend and I were talking and were

doing fine.

UNTIL the truck turned and was suddenly 

almost on top of us

and were looking into the truck's grill/bottom of the

 truck's hood and wondering what just happened

and why is the truck trying to eat us??!!!??

Sudden, Scary and...

There we were.

The truck could not, it seems, back up;

I and my friend were startled, scared and in a bit of shock;

at least I was!

The truck was so huge and lumbering that it had to turn into 

our lane to make the turn at all,

which you see by the pictures,

meant that if it went any further it would well, 

pretty much kill us and destroy the car. 

So jackknifed truck,

scared fairly new driver (me) and a very smart

driver behind me, in a brown minivan.

The person behind us backed up,

we backed up, 

the truck lurched forward, 

seeming ready to eat us at any time.

We had to do this maneuver 3 times...

Wow, nerve wracking.

I remember that I felt mad at the truck driver,

who I have no idea who the driver was,

too tall to see from being at the nose of our car,

as it were;

it felt like the truck was being a bit of a bully;

I think the driver hopefully was not a bully 

but totally miscalculated ... or... if was a bully

was really out of line.

My friend kept saying in all her driving she 

had never experienced something like this.

The truck, thanks to our backing up,

was able to get in his/her lane and we all kept going.

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I was fairly anxious the rest of the drive to the store,

and I ended up being routed on a small, with stoplights,

highway but after nearly being 

eaten by that huge light green truck,

i.e. the biggest truck in the world,

even this small highway was nerve wracking for me!

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We made it to the store,

and when we were just inside it,

I realized I was shaking and my friend 

made me look at her and do deep breathes.

I chewed some gum for the sugar

and eventually the knots in my stomach 

relaxed and we found what we needed.

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Thankfully I was routed back a much easier way

and as always I prayed before I drove,

my friend prayed with me and it was 

a peaceful ride back

and an epic story about 

how the biggest truck in the world, painted a 

pale pastel green, 

almost ate our small mid-sized silver car.

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I must say I was thinking that

Mr. Husband better appreciate 

his special present I am working on after

it nearly cost the life of his wife...