You know, the ones that make you think how "lucky" you are? It all started as I was getting ready to leave for school. I've been studying like crazy for two tests and I really wasn't feeling good about my pathophysiology exam. I stopped to say my morning prayer before I left for school and felt prompted to pray that I got there safetly.
Eagle Mountain has some major flooding problems right now because of the snow melting so rapidly. I drove through a deep puddle and then hit a patch of ice as I was slowing down for a stop sign. I lost control of my car and slid off to the right side of the road - stopping in a large pool of water that was running down the side of the road. My car was stuck. I was probably parked in about 2-3 feet of water. I turned off the ignition and got out my Allstate roadside assistance card. As I was dialing the number a nice guy stopped to make sure I was okay. I told him what happened and a truck that had passed me turned around to see if he could tow me out. He was so incredibly kind - he got down in the icy water and put a tow rope around the A frame of my car and then slowly towed me back up onto the road.
While this was going on I wondered if I would have been better off turning left into the median that divides the North and Southbound lanes. My car started back up just fine though. As I continued North I passed an accident where the same thing had happened to a truck but it had slid left into the median, hit the sement curb and rolled onto the top of the truck. It was a mess. I'm 99% certain my poor little Neon would not have faired as well as that truck did. I said a prayer of gratitude that my little mishap only made me 15 minutes late for my exam. :)
5 comments:
glad to hear you're okay! did you at least pass your test?
I had two tests the other day - one of them I passed (we have to average 78% on our exams so I consider 78% passing) and the other was a bear of a test and I got 74%. Which was actually about the average for my class. They weight the grades and it will go up and pass the 78% mark, I think. All of my patho tests have jumped about 7% once they weight them. I just hate having to rely on that! I've done well enough this semester that I haven't had to worry about what happens with the "par."
Thanks, Kirsten!
Oops - that makes it look like I just got 78% on the test I passed. I did better than that - I got 85%. :) I'm just not happy about the patho score, and I'm still waiting for them to update the grades! Oh well.
good job on the one test, that would be almost more than I could handle waiting to find out how I did. yes? no? aargh! some day I will be back in school, hopefully before it's nick's turn to go to college.
Sjoe. Glad you are okay. It's wonderful that there's still such nice guys out there
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