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[WVduckchick]

Let me tell you a true story from yesterday. 

I go with BF to WalMart which has a hair "salon" in it. Aside: It was snowing yesterday, and the place was pretty ghosttownlike.

Back to the story: I get my hair butchered, BF gets his cut, then we decide to get some food and head home. 

BF is pushing the cart through the snow, and I'm finding the FOB and trying to get to the car to open up the hatchback. 

I push the button on the hatchback, and the door starts to open like it always does. I turn around to grab a handful of bags, turn back around to put them in the back of the car when... 

BLAM!

My left eye socket explodes with searing pain. Apparently the snow was heavy on the hatchback and it couldn't fully open automatically. It opened to exactly SCG eye-height. 

BF directed me to go sit in the car and collect myself because (like this is going to calm me down) he can't drive my car. 




Anyway, I really don't think I should be adding pointy sharp objects to fragile blown eggs. 


PS does anyone remember my "slam the back of my head into a fencepost, get confused and stuck in the chicken run, spray myself with a hose and then later slam my head again into a cabinet" day? 

I need a helmet.

PSS surprisingly I don't have a nice shiner today, but I do have an elevated red quarter inch line from my eyebrow to below my eye at a 45 degree angle. 

I don't mean to laugh, but your story is amusing. I'm glad you are ok. I do believe I vaguely remember that other lovely day also!

Sounds like you have a plenty hard head without a helmet

Seriously tho, hope you don't have any long term pain over it. And be extra careful with the shiny, pointy objects for a while.

@superchemicalgirl

Doesn't sound like a great plan...... just sayin'

Photo share time...

I went to the dump, and @chickisoup it has been snowing for over a month up here... but the trip back from the dump sure was pretty... not my place... I just stopped along the road.

Be-u-tum-ful!

 

[Latestarter]

Gosh SCG... you really do seem to have periods where you seem to almost have a death wish. Glad it wasn't more serious and you didn't take the point to the eyeball. They do make some quite stylish helmets now-a-days... Hope it heals up OK.

 

[Alaskan]

Gosh SCG... you really do seem to have periods where you seem to almost have a death wish. Glad it wasn't more serious and you didn't take the point to the eyeball. They do make some quite stylish helmets now-a-days... Hope it heals up OK.

By the by... how are you settlin' into your new digs?

I have never gotten familiar enough with the people in the north eastern part of the state to even know how to make fun of them. So.. I hope they are treating you right.

 

[Latestarter]

Doing OK Al, thanks for asking. The folks round these parts are pretty decent

No complaints what so ever. Seems there are some more moving in this direction here shortly.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG I think this is one of many times, you need to slip into your "personal relaxation suit". and chill out.

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan moved away from Chicago 47 years ago - never looked back. We had some terrible neighbors(more than 2 families) but otherwise it was a very nice neighborhood.
We drove through about 5 years after we moved, and it was too scary to stop and park - really changed fast.

 

[Kusanar]

Quote:
A friend of mine is having some major health problems and his statuses read much like these days of yours....

But, an important point, why can't the BF drive your car?? lol

 

[chickisoup]

@superchemicalgirl

Doesn't sound like a great plan...... just sayin'

Photo share time...

I went to the dump, and @chickisoup it has been snowing for over a month up here... but the trip back from the dump sure was pretty... not my place... I just stopped along the road.

We've been having a little snow off and on for a while but nothing that amounted to more than an inch or two. The local tv station was beginning to do the "last time we had a Christmas with no snow" thing. Yeah, it's been a crazy fall. Set all kinds of new record highs, rain totals, etc. Ground is still mostly soft (tho a bit "crunchy") and the lakes aren't even frozen over here yet tho that will probably change pretty quick. Got up this morning to 16o F actual with a lot of wind and we should be looking at below zero nights for the near future. Opened up the coop this morning and the chickens just stuck their heads out and gave me the "are you crazy?" stare and disappeared. Smart birds.

 

[chickisoup]

For those interested, here is a read to go along with your morning cuppa.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-measures-to-protect-poultry-against-avian-flu

 

[superchemicalgirl]

But, an important point, why can't the BF drive your car?? lol

It is a small Suzuki, and he's 6 feet 4 and probably 300 lbs. He barely fits in the passenger section. Add to that that it's a standard and he doesn't want to learn how to drive it.

I hate driving his giant, automatic transmission truck, too. I can barely see over the steering wheel and forget about seeing much directly in front or to the side of the engine. Backing up is also an experiment in terror, too. I once used his truck to go get mulch and then I got it stuck in the side yard because there's not much clearance over there between the house, the goat fence and the duck pen.

So we have my car and his truck.