Orientation and Load Securement classes behind me, I am now an official employee of Western Express Flatbed Division. This is going to be a very exciting new chapter in my life, one I hope will not be in the 'jump-off-a-cliff' category of exciting.
This has been an eventful couple of days. A tornado did damage near my former home near Moore, Oklahoma, and last night, my youngest daughter and grandson were hit by a drunk driver racing a pickup truck, rolled five times, and they somehow came out of it with bruises, a few minor cuts, a lost wedding ring, and no shoes.
As a former paramedic, I can tell you serious accidents like that rarely end up with no major injuries. In fact, very often death is a result. I am glad she wears her seatbelt each and every time she gets in a car and I am especially glad she properly attaches each and every buckle in my grandson's car seat. The ER doc told her if she hadn't fastened the chest strap, he would have been ejected and would not have survived.
Very sobering. And I can tell you I was one hot mess of worry last night, but NOTHING like the other driver. You see, my son-in-law, the former state prison correctional officer was directly behind my daughter's car and saw the whole thing. Bad news for the driver, and somehow, even though his car wasn't seriously damaged and he was not otherwise injured at all - that's the way it always is, right? - the driver's nose and facial bones were broken when his face slammed uncontrollably into my son-in-law's fist several times just after the collision.
Man, that physics is some science, isn't it?
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