Tragedy Strikes...

Tragedy Strikes…

We almost get into an accident while driving to the conference… a jerk in a black BMW almost rear ended us (apparently he or she didn’t like that I was doing the speed limit) and then almost sideswiped us as they passed us – and then had the gumption to give me the finger…

The conference was pretty good – and I had no trouble staying awake with only having had a little over 3 hours of sleep… I told Chris to pick me up at 3:30 and we could leave straight from the conference and maybe make it to Linden a little earlier that I had told my sister I would arrive. The conference ended a little after 3, so I stood outside with a co-worker and chatted for awhile… I looked at my watch and it was about ten minutes past when Chris said he’d be there and those of you who know my husband know that ten minutes late is in his mind actually five minutes early… LOL but my cell phone was dead and thankfully my co-worker offered me the use of his phone because I didn’t have change for the pay phone. The news was not good – Chris was still playing Tetris with all of the stuff that needed to go into the car and hadn’t even left the house yet… he promised to pick me up in 45 minutes… I thought to myself 4:30 is still when I would have been able to leave if I had been in the office today so that should be ok. My co-worker offered to wait with me for half an hour… 4:20 came and my co-worker had to leave but I figured it would only be another ten minutes and I still had a Steven King book to read in my purse (Duma Key – it’s a skeeery book once you reach the halfway point). I read for about 10 minutes looking out the front door every 5 minutes… He was LATE… LATER and LATEST!!!! It was about 4:30PM when I decided I would take a little walk outside – we were at a golf course and it had a really pretty pond that had a good view of the road. I watched some otter-type critters swim and dive and by about quarter to five my hands were freezing and I was getting very MAAAAAAAAAD!! Chris finally showed up at 5:15 and said the puppy needed to pee… Luckily for us, right next to the golf course was a dog park – where for the first time Gizmo lifted a leg to pee instead of crouching.