Saturday, October 20, 20073:31 PM
We decide for sure that we are not going to the BYU Game due to the lame excuse for a match and the crummy weather. We head out to run some errands and do some shopping.
6:17 PM
After several stops, we end up at FYE (like Media Play) and find several movies on sale that we've been looking for. We get in line to check out only to discover it is snowing like crazy outside!
6:19 PM
Matt is driving , idling through the parking lot on our way to the exit. It is a white out - lots of traffic moving slowly, terrible visibility... suddenly I see her, a blue hooded silhouette running across the road. GASP "Matthew!". It's too late. We hit a pedestrian.
6:20 PM
We both jump out of the car into the weather and run to assist the victim. She is lying in a heap on the asphalt, complaining that her leg hurts and she cannot stand. Matt picks her up off the ground and carries her in to Joann's like a baby. A Joann's employee calls 911.
6:24 PM
While waiting for the authorities, the family accompanying the victim begin to make jokes to lighten the mood... at first this is somewhat endearing, but soon turns annoying as the joke is on us. Ex: to the customer leaving Joann's: "hey! don't get hit by a car! hahaha". Right. Paramedics and police arrive.
6:31 PM
Paramedics assure the victim she is just fine and make light of the injury, "don't slip on the wet floor!". It becomes quite clear that we've been injured worse than this while rough housing. The policeman tells Matt he isn't going to cite him considering the conditions - and probably also the fact that the victim admits she was 'probably just as much at fault' as we are.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Matt calls the woman to check on her... she is sore, but no bruising. Whew! Relieving, but still so traumatic!
Present day:
I believe the best part of all of this has been telling people the story... and discovering that this is more common than we ever knew! We've now learned that one of my brothers has hit a woman and a man, Matt's coworker hit a 6 year old, my co worker's brother has hit three people, and my friend's sister was hit once. So, consider yourself cautioned: YOU could be NEXT!
Below: A picture of me in the grocery store about 20 minutes after it happened...
I look pretty pathetic if I do say so myself! Who knew that hitting a ped would take so much out of you?
3 comments:
Dwight said you guys hit his dog once too :)
jordyn, wow. i'm so glad we were able to hear the story in person! we're really glad we finally got together with you two. we had a great time. let's make sure benny isn't 10 the next time you see him!
I guess it may not be all that unique of a story after hearing yours, but while Jay walking at lunch during seventh grade I too was hit by a car. Upon hearing the kids on the curb yelling that I was going to get suspended and after looking the angry driver in the eyes through his windshield, I decided it would be best if I ran away. So I jumped off his hood and ran as fast as I could to the grocery store where I applied bags of frozen veggies to my legs, and then returned them to the freezer.
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