Toast!

I'm always a day behind with my posts!

Yesterday I took my peeps on a picnic to Tangent.
We get to cross the ferry!
It's an exciting time for the residents!

On our way home, we almost met our waterloo, we coulda been toast, etc!

We were past the turn off for PR, so I set my cruise control. Yes friends, the Handivan has cruise control!
Not unlike those big 16 (or more) wheelers! But I digress!

This side of where the old scales used to be is a cross road, and a CN service truck was stopped at the stop sign.
THEN. HE. PULLED. OUT. wth

The things running through my mind at the time were:
Surely he can see me?
OMG, what the hell is this guy doing? I actually might have said that out loud, and it could have been
 " What the F%*& is this guy doing?"
Damn, I don't want to hit that approach.
And probably a million other things.

So I tromped on the brakes!
Squealing like on TV, I got around him on the approach, and came to a dead stop!
I said to my peeps, "I hope everyone was buckled up!?"
One lady replied, "My nose wasn't."

I pulled a pen out of my purse, cause I was gonna chase him and get his license plate #!

But to my surprise, he turns around and pulls up behind us!

I said: "What the hell were you doing?!"
Him: "I'm sorry, I thought you were turning."
Me: "WHAT!??!!"
Him: "I thought I saw your signal light on."
Me: "I was going a little too fast to turn sweet pea."
(My heart's thumping outside my chest by now)
Him: "I know, and when I realized you were going to fast to turn, I couldn't get that turbo across the road fast enough."
One of the residents: "What's your name?"
Me: "Now your gonna get interigated."
Him: "John F."
Resident: "Where do you live?"
Him: "Here in town. How's your heart, cause mine's out here."
Me: "I think I had a heart attack. You gotta be more careful."
Him: " Well that's why I came over, I wanted to apologize, you have a good rest of the day, and I'll try to drive more carefully."

GAWD!

I didn't know if I wanted to bawl, I had an instant headache (again! I'd had one earlier cause I work with idiots!), and I wasn't sure I COULD drive!

But I got my shit together, told the residents now they had something to tell their grandchildren!
Told them I thought this job would be the death of me, but I didn't think I'd die in the handivan!

They asked me if the bus had just been inspected.
I said, "No not until November."
They thought that it had really good brakes.
I said: 'Good thing those work, cause the emergency brake doesn't, you can drive around with that on! Better not tell Chuck we squealed the tires either!"

I'm stiff today, probably from trying to push the brake pedal through the floor!

I also wanted to tell you that I'm reading Twilight.
You know, darn kids, won't let me watch the movie until I've read the book!
I'm really not that impressed!
I'm about 130 pages in, and she's already figured out he's a vampire? Just cause they live in some rainy little town in Washington? Awww come on!? PUHLEEESE!
I thought Harry Potter was more believable than this...but oh well, I'll read them!

Better go, my SIL just brought 2 baskets of strawberries that need a bath!

Ta ta for now!