Shake, Rattle and Roll or Waiting in the Car Line
Have you ever waited in a car line to pick up children, get gas, wait on an ATM machine, or sit at a drive through restaurant waiting for the cars in front of you to get their food? Perhaps you’re one of those who got stuck on the interstate and just had to make the best of a roadblock or wreck up ahead.
I suppose most of us have at one time or the other been in a line while in our car. It can be frustrating if it wasn’t expected. There are those, however, who make the best of the situation.
I see people doing different things during these times. Some read the newspaper or a book, others put on makeup or check out their hair, then there are still others who talk on the cellphone or get out of the car and talk to those behind them or in front of them in the line.
Picture this.
Its two minutes before elementary school release in Liberty, a small rural South Carolina town. There were many parents gathered, as usual, waiting in the car line.
The weather was quite balmy for January 8th. In fact, it was 70 degrees and getting ready to rain. The wind increased all of a sudden and there came an unexpected gust that literally takes six cars and “stacked” them on top of each other.
13 are injured, 3 are hospitalized.
No one died, but everyone was shaken. After all, it’s not supposed to be 70 degrees in January and it’s certainly not supposed to be warm enough for a tornado.
I suspect that car line will never be the same after this. What was suppose to be just another day turned out to be – as Elvis would say -a shakin’, rattlin’, and rollin’ day.
Guess you just never know what will happen when you walk out the door.
Now there are those of us who will be a bit more cautious as we go somewhere from now on. There are many things that can happen as we go about our mundane duties. If we wanted to, we could be scared to walk out the door. I expect that, if we lived our life fearful of what might happen “out there,” we could literally stay inside all the time.
That wouldn’t be much of a life…now would it?
I surely am glad the school bell had not rung when the tornado came. It could have been much worse.
My wish for you today is that you are aware of your surroundings whenever you are out there and do the best you can to survive. Just being more aware of situations can help prevent unfortunate circumstances from occurring.
~ Joellen