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Way You Don’t Want To Wake Up #231

Your mom tearing downstairs, bellowing “GET YOUR PANTS ON YOUR SISTER WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT OH GOD OH GOD.”

Mom is usually pretty good in a crisis, but car crashes are her Kryptonite,* and then she tends to have the same calming influence as Bill Paxton in Aliens in that case.

Anyway. Turns out some genius decided that stop signs are for chumps and cut across my sister’s path. Scrunched up our hood pretty bad and scared the hell out of my sister, but nobody died, not even the hypothetical baby the other lady was going on about being lucky she didn’t have in the back seat.** So the car is a bit smashed, but we’re all fine, everything’s fine, we’re all fine here now. How are you?


*Not without very good reason. We have A Past there.

**Given that her car is one of those indestructible new SUVs, with barely a scratch to show, I figure that if you buckled him in right, the hypothetical baby would probably be more startled than anything.

Comments

[willowistari.livejournal.com]

I'd be like "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE RUN THE STOP SIGN IF YOU WERE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR FUCKING BABY LADY."

D:

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's kind of what we were thinking. She was troweling it on pretty thick, though--probably to distract us from the fact that she was in the wrong.

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

I hate Unexpected Mornings.

::: hugs :::

[a-mae-zing.livejournal.com]

D: I hate stupid drivers. How on earth did they ever get licensed? (And if you're worried about "what if there were children in the car," MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE A BETTER DRIVER!)

I'm glad your sister is okay! :)

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

That's really scary, even if it turned out okay. Poor car, sister, mom, and Amelia.

Hypothetical Baby. Good name for a rockband.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your sister is alright. I hope a rock falls out of the sky and brains the other idiot, though.

[sphynxle.livejournal.com]

I too have A Past with car accidents. They freak me out worse than anything.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

PTSD SURE IS FUN AND EDUCATIONAL, INNIT? *anxiety attack*

I'll tell you our horrible car crash story if you tell me yours!

[sphynxle.livejournal.com]

Personally, I've been in two. One was a six car pile up that pretty much destroyed my mother's back (ultimately leading to the fusion she had done this year). All things considering neither were very bad.

But my father was killed in a car accident. Semi ran him off the road, truck rolled, he was thrown out, gasoline all over the highway. Yeah :/ Fun times.

They scare me so badly, because once you're in them, you're at the mercy of whatever vehicle you're in. It's up there with my worst fears. Mind you, neither of my stories are probably anywhere near as bad as yours, but if someone says "So and so was in a car accident' my mind's first thought is "Who died".

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your father--what an awful way to lose him. I wouldn't wish car accidents on anyone, whether it be their own accident or losing someone else to one.

My own hideous Crash at least had the benefit of sheer dumb luck. When I was six my mom, my aunt, and my two siblings (age 4 and 2) got in a spectacular rollover in the Middle Of Nowhere, Nevada, when our SUV's wheel caught the side of the road. My mom broke her neck (she lived, but yeah); my aunt got her arm caught outside the window as we rolled and it was shredded, so that she had many surgeries to rebuild it into The Claw it is now. And I, who had unbuckled my seatbelt for ten seconds, was thrown through the back doors, skidded on my right side, and landed in a sticker bush. By all accounts I should be dead, but to everyone's shock I only had superficial wounds--though I did have the fun of spending months picking glass shards and thorns out of my scalp. My siblings got away with goose eggs--they were in carseats.

We all lived, which is amazing itself. But we all definitely bear the PTSD scars and triggers. I'll wager you do too.

[sphynxle.livejournal.com]

Jesus, you are seriously lucky to be alive X_x Oh, completely on the PTSD. And the weird thing about the accident that killed my father was the passenger. He only had a large gash on his forehead and a few bruises. Nothing serious.

The worst major accident I've been in was my motorcycle accident. I was too light for the bike, and was going too fast. It flipped, and I was trapped underneath it as I skidded about 200 feet. Tore up one side of my arm pretty good and I have an impressive scar on my foot. The pleather boot I was wearing BURNED into my foot and took off most of the layers. Had I not had my helmet on, my face would have looked like my arm did. I got insanely lucky.

PTSD from accidents is a really weird thing, I've found. If a car moves too fast, I freak out. If I'm on a bicycle and the thing starts wobbling? I have to get off and calm myself down.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That's the crazy thing about crashes, isn't it--that nasty roulette.

Now motorcycles--those scare me. I refuse to ride one, probably because of the lack of armor there. I'm glad you were wearing your helmet!

My own PTSD is decidedly weird. I don't seem to react with more than the usual caution to moving vehicles, though I'm careful to wear my seatbelt and not drive like a maniac. But I seem to have a sort of PTSD-by-proxy: I get very anxious when somebody else shows signs of shock. I don't really remember more than bits of the aftermath of this crash, but I know Mom was a bit lost in her own stress at that point. Now whenever she (or anyone else) gets stressed, or vague, I panic and try to reel her in and may even get angry. It's off-putting and bizarre, and not really helpful for either of us.

(My brother is fine with vehicles but has Arm Horror: he doesn't mind hearing of horrible things done to any part of the body, except the arm. This is directly correlated to the sight of my aunt's shredded arm when he was at a formative age ...)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

How are you?
You know, my sister wasn't just in a car accident. I'm gonna go with "can't complain".

[daiq.livejournal.com]

Why is it always the freak in the wrong who starts screaming about the (hypothetical or otherwise) baby in thier car....

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Because in this culture we aren't taught any socially acceptable way to handle being wrong.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

belated *hugs*. Glad your sister is ok.