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Yeah, I'm totally fine. Not even a bruise, really. I'm pretty amazed.
Was kinda weird. My wife and I were walking through an extremely busy parking lot after dinner at a pizza joint. She's flying to Illinois for a week on Sunday, and half of the dinner conversation had centered around what I would do if she died (yeah, it was real uplifting- you'd love spending dinner with the BGL's). No, actually it was pretty lighthearted.
But then when we were walking to the car two ladies started following us because they couldn't find a parking spot. We joked with each other- they asked if we "wanted a ride." Ha ha. Two rows of cars later I'm chatting to my wife about something or other, carrying the pizzas, and as I'm crossing between the parked rows a cars passes me, left to right. So I step out behind it, looking the other way, of course, to my left. Suddenly, my wife says "Watch out!" and at exactly the same time, out of nowhere, I'm being picked up and tossed by the back bumper and trunk of the car that had just passed. He had stopped and attempted to quickly reverse in response to someone else pulling out, ahead of me and slightly to my right.
The pizzas went flying and landed on the ground. I went up into the air a bit and landed on my feet a yard or two from where I had been. The car stopped immediately- I think the driver was hitting the brake already before he hit me, even. But if he hadn't already been hitting the brake, there may have been a problem, because I wasn't tossed to the side. Just straight back. It was over before I even realized what had happened.
So this is where it gets kinda funny. The lady in the passenger seat gets out, opening the door quickly, all angry like, like she's gonna give someone a whoopin'. I turn toward the car, and I'm standing there looking at her, thinking, "You just hit me with your car." But as she gets out, she starts looking at the back bumper for damage. I just stared at her in disbelief for a second or two- didn't she realize that there was like, someone who was almost just killed here? Suddenly she realizes this, and looks at me and says, "Are YOU okay?"- yes, "YOU," as in, secondary to the car. I said yeah, I'm totally fine.
Then the driver gets out. I think he was in shock himself. He walked up and asked if I'm okay. I did my best to reassure him that I wasn't hurt at all. We did the handshake-hug thing. He said it was one of his worst fears, hurting someone with his car. He must have been scared shitless. But as my wife and I were walking away, after we picked up the pizzas- which were more or less okay, too- I called out to him "Have a good night." Intuitively I felt that as shaken up as I was, he must be ten times as much. I didn't want it to ruin his night.
My wife was in shock, too. I think she still might be, a bit. She had to watch this happen. She said our whole lives flashed in front of her eyes. She couldn't stop talking about it, how close I was to being dead, there, but at the same time coming out of it totally unscathed. If that guy had hit his brake a quarter second later than he did, I would have been under the car.
Anyway. So I'm still alive! Whoohoo!
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