Ka-Bam!

There we were cruising in my pickup, a Ford Ranger, 1997 never been wrecked either and ka bam. We were rear ended by a small compact black car.

We were on Sante Fe drive in Weatherford, just past the Iron Skillet, going to check out a restaurant that we heard had closed suddenly. I was driving, we had slowed down, almost to a stop with a left turn signal on in preparation to turning across on coming traffic. Unfortunately, there was on coming traffic or otherwise we would have been out of the line of fire, so to speak.

Judie took quite a shock, I her saw fly forward but the seat belts held up. The air bags did not deploy. Apparently, we were moving just a tiny bit and I was putting on the breaks and all that took up the relative shock - not enough to set the air bags off.

The Ranger has 171,000 miles on it and I just had the air conditioning worked over at a costly price. Now I have great air conditioning and bent back bumper. No damage to the tail gate, even the six small Pyrochantha shrubs did not topple over. So it was really a minor thing to us.

Not the Jap trap, it was totally disabled. The young lady driving had gotten distracted, she had spill her drink and was bending over to retrieve it. Bad maneuver. Collapsed her radiator into her engine, it disabled the car, and jammed up her driver's door. She was distraught, forlorn even but uninjured - thank God.

So much for cruising around and checking out closed restuarants.