Amy, official niece of NewMexiKen, was in a minor traffic collision yesterday. A gentleman Amy describes as “this ancient, tiny, little, old man” was let into traffic by a good samaritan and, while waving to his benefactor, he ran right into Amy.
As Amy tells it:
The funny thing was there was an ambulance right next to me in the 2nd lane. They saw everything (even though there was no damage, my car was quite jostled at the time – it was apparent that something had happened). So they turned on their lights and pulled over and jumped out to make sure everything was ok. You should have seen everyone’s reaction when I got out of the car and they saw my belly. [Amy’s baby is due in May.] They were all hustling around, “Do you need to sit down? Do you need a drink? Do you want us to call the police? Maybe you should lay down.” I thought the little old man was gonna have a heart attack right there. I was amused. Sometimes the belly comes in handy.
Well since there was no damage we exchanged info and such and I sent [the man] on his way. He was very grateful that I was nice about it but really I guess he caught me in a non-hormonal moment.
Oh, I had almost the exact same experience. On Olympic Blvd. in Los Angeles. I was simply stopped at a stop light and a guy just wasn’t paying attention, came around the curve in Century City and plowed in to the back of my car. I wished I’d had a camera to document the look on his face when I struggled out of the car about 7 months pregnant. Luckily, no damage to either car but I was pretty furious and let him know. I could have made a scene but traffic is bad enough there…