Crazy Drivers

When Mike got up this morning to go the United Ways Day of Caring in Provo, Collin thought it would be cute if he too awoke at 6:50. He did not stay up too long, and was laid back down by 7:35. I like to read a little before falling back asleep, and was just dozing off when I heard a sound that reminded me of either A) a gun going off, B)someone opening and slamming our back door, or B) an explosion in the distance. Skip freaked out, so I too freaked out. I got up and searched my house, listening for anything that was off from the normal. I checked to make sure all doors were locked, but since everything checked out, I went back to bed but just felt this nervous unease. Skip laid back down (just a clarification here: Skip seems to sense things, and so when I am scared or nervous about something, I look to see his reactions and let them be my guide. He is a VERY smart dog) so I too tried to lay back down, but just still felt such an unease. A second later I heard a cop car in the distance and so I grabbed a sweatshirt and ran outside (mind you without any shoes!) I was shocked when I walked out. There was a girl out in the road, and there was a guy with blood everywhere running around. I looked at the neighbor's front yard and saw an older model car with it's front hood wrapped around the recently chopped tree's trunk. The passenger's side of the front windshield had a whole cracked out of it, in the perfect shape of someone's head. My neighbor was in the front yard, and the cop cars started pulling up, along with ambulance, paramedics, and the fire department. I'm not sure what happened to make the couple crash, but it is not exactly a common place that would or could be hit, since you would have to be aiming to drive into a ditch the way the car was situated. The couple could have been in a fight, but more than likely the chances are better that either alcohol or drugs were involved. I am just glad that the stump was there, because there is an electric pole behind the stump, and I fear they would have knocked that down and also run into our neighbor's house. One of the cops was the same cop that responded when I got hit last week. (Don't worry, the fifteen passenger van just backed into our back passenger side door and scratched above the back wheel, and only shook up Collin and I a bit.) Needless to say, I may need a nap today.