Back when I was still married, I wasn’t feeling good so my wife was taking me to the hospital. It was super late at night and it was dark. We were cruising along when we noticed a silver Dodge Caravan stopped in the right hand lane about 200 feet ahead.
I told my wife to slow down just in case something was wrong. This is a 4 lane road, we are in the left inside lane closest to the middle and the silver van was in the right hand lane closest to the edge of the road. We were both traveling the same direction.
She started to slow down to what I would say was about 15 miles per hour. As soon as we got next to the silver van this guy pops up with a skateboard and goes to run across all four lanes on this road. He didn’t see us and by the time we saw him it was too late.
Boom… We hit him. Before we even had time to react he popped back up and continued to run across the four-lane road like nothing even happened. So here we are stopped in the middle of a four-lane road in the middle of the night just completely stunned at what just happened.
We rolled the window down and we hollered… Are you okay, are you okay!? He turned around hollering… I’m okay ma’am I’m okay and we just sat there in shock. We sat there for probably 5 minutes and then we finally continued on to the hospital. I spent the next 3 days just waiting for the police to show up at our house to take a report or something. Thinking that guys adrenaline would wear off and he would find out he was hurt and file a police report.
About a month later we were washing my car when we noticed there was a dent in the hood. Actually it’s more like a crease. It’s not very noticeable unless you really look but it definitely took some force to make it happen. It’s still there today. I’m super thankful that guy didn’t get hurt! I bet he learned a lesson about not just bolting across a four-lane road.
Anyhow, thank you for reading and don’t forget, if donkeydidit… You can too!
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