Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Lucky or.........?

Either I am the luckiest guy in the world or The Universe is sending me a message to pay attention.
Over the last few day, starting with my fall on Monday night, I have some how managed to remain unscathed from what could have been some very dangerous  incidents.
The aches and pains of Monday night's fall are much better today.
On Tuesday, as I was finishing up my last run of the day, I found myself driving east. The skies were grey and in the distance I could see patches of blue.
However when I looked in my rear view mirror, there was nothing but black in the sky.
This did not bode well for my return to the lot to park my bus for the evening. In a matter of minutes, trees were bending almost to the ground from the high winds. Things started flying through the air.
First leaves, then twigs, then branches, then limbs. As I was about to cross the last major intersection on the final leg of my run, the glare of brake lights popped up as if from no where.
As I turned left on to the main road to avoid running into these stopped vehicles, I caught a glimpse of a massive tree as it fell across the road. I heard today that it crushed a car,. Fortunately no one was badly hurt.
Twice in 2 days luck seemed to be on my side.
Then today, as I circled around to pick up the last of my passengers for my morning run,the third and probably the scariest event. 
Somehow, as I was making a left turn, my hand slipped off of and then through the steering wheel of the bus.As I tried to pull it back, it became lodged in the steering wheel.
I could not extricate my arm. I was in mid turn and could not get my hand out, nor could I turn the wheel to straighten out the bus.
Nothing like this has ever happened to me. 
I was able to apply the brakes,put the bus in park with my left hand and eventually after much pulling, twisting and tugging set myself free.
SCARY!
Lucky? 
Definitely!
On guard?
Absolutely!
The Universe has both a) spared me and b)sent me a message. 
And trust me, I plan to pay attention to it!

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