Crash

Jared and I got in a car accident back in October.  It was a day the Emma was feeling sick so she had stayed home from school.  I had a million things I had to do that day so I had never made it out of my work out clothes or to a shower.  You think I would have learned my lesson from the funyun fiasco of 98 ( I got in a car accident after eating an entire bag of funyuns and was strapped on a gurney with a fireman way too close to my face and subsequently my odorous mouth, which was almost more horrifying than the accident)  Anyway.... I hastily left the house in my workout clothes, unbathed body, socks and red flip flops.  My shirt was fuchsia and my flip flops were red and yes, I was wearing socks.  I picked up Jared and was heading back home on a road famous for accidents.  The car in front of me decided to slam on their breaks and so I slammed on mine and just as I was letting out a sigh of relief that I avoided hitting them.....BAM!  The kid behind me slammed right into me.  Jared was completely confused because he knew that I stopped in time so he didn't know what happened.  I immediately got out of the car to asses the damage and the kid behind me was holding his head and asking if I was ok.  I told him I was fine and asked about his condition because he was holding his head.  He had been rocking out and slammed his head into the steering wheel.  He was a really sweet kid and just kept wanting to know if we were ok and that he was sorry.  At first I thought we escaped without much car damage because my bumper did the job it was supposed to and absorbed the impact.  His car didn't fair so well and the hood was up in the air.  This is a picture after he got his brother to come yank the engine back forward and put the hood down enough for them to drive it home.  I didn't realize that my muffler and my bumper were into the tire until I had tried to drive the car to a safe place off the road where we could fill out a report.
Here is where the story gets crazy.  This of course happened right before the election and I had a bumper sticker on the back of my car.  The fire department showed up and I talked to a very pleasant man that took an injury report from me and then one of the other firemen came up to me and asked me if I knew why I had gotten into the accident.  I just stared back at him stupefied until he added, "because of that bumper sticker on the back of your car."  I continued to stare at him with a blank look on my face hoping for some kind of punch line...is he being funny? "people are just gonna keep slamming into you until the president gets re-elected."  I thought surely now he was joking.  Like wink, wink those crazy voters.   The wink, wink never came.  The "only kidding" remark never came when I'm sure my face was now in visible shock and horror at his comments to someone already suffering from shock.  What kind of a screwed up world are we living in?  Where someone who is employed by the tax payers to serve all of the people in the community not only takes sides publicly, but feels inclined to take a shot at someone who has just been in a car accident.  This is where we are folks.  The country is being ripped apart and brother is being pitted against brother.  The people who we are supposed to trust can no longer be trusted.  In fairness he did come up to me before he left and said "in all seriousness, you CAN call us if you need anything."  That's when I said, "oh gee, thanks!"  I feel so much safer and better now that I know that you are legally obligated to assist me because I do in fact pay your salary! Our world is becoming more dangerous than ever and honestly I don't know how we are going to make it through sometimes.  People who don't want to work get to sit around and scream about fairness.  Union workers get to vilify the very people that pay their salary and demand more money from them than they make themselves.  etc, etc..Luckily I have a testimony of God and His plan otherwise all would be lost.  When the people choose wickedness the faithful have to get stronger.