Wanna Be a Steader!

Thursday night, just before 9p.m. - I was reading and waiting for Hannity and Combs to come on, DH was doing paperwork at the kitchen table, DD1 was upstairs reading, DD2 was on the computer - when we heard a TERRIBLE CRASH right outside our front door!    My DH ran through saying, "This is BAD!  Call 911!"  I grabbed our cordless phone and ran out behind him, followed by our DDs.  When we got out there, lo and behold, there was a red truck in our front yard, just FEET away from our bedroom!! 

As the poor couple in the truck were hobbling out, another (older) couple came up and said that it was a hit and run.  Here's what happened:  A man in a green truck decided that he wanted to drive on our side of the road (which was the opposite lane he should be in!) and while he was driving toward traffic he took out a fire hydrant (knocked it 15 feet off it's base!), nearly hit a huge tree, nearly hit the older couple (who saw him coming and had driven up into a neighbor's yard and "hid" behind the huge tree), passed them and DID hit the folks in the red truck - which was ALREADY up in our yard trying to get away from him - but Mr. Green Truck managed to actually swerve up into our yard and smash into their truck and knock it farther up towards the house.  THEN, he kept going and hit about 4 other cars before he ended up in a ditch about 1/4 mile up the road! 

The red truck was hit JUST behind the lady driver.  It could have been SO much worse!  She was treated for cuts and scrapes from the broken glass.  An officer told us that another officer had radioed him and told him that Mr. Green Truck was badly injured but that he believed he would end up OK.  Now the big question:  Was Mr. Green Truck drunk or was he having medical problems?    Our officer told us that the other officer said that he didn't smell anything, so we're left wondering if it was medical or "medicinal."  We haven't heard anything yet.

The same tow truck that picked up the green truck came to pick up the red truck at our house, so we got to see it.  WOW!  I can't believe that Mr. Green Truck could keep going not only after he'd hit the hydrant, but after he smashed into the side of the red truck...but he did.  He was blessed to have ONLY been stopped by a ditch instead of a semi-truck, a pole or another house!  I hope that if he doesn't have Jesus as his Savior that he will by the time he is recovered.  Amen.   

This is the 2nd time we've had a car in our yard!  Several years ago we lived in Troy, Ohio and our little car was parked out in front of our house.  About  8a.m. the girls and I heard that terrible metal crunching sound and a woman came to our front door and said the she "thinks" she hit our car.  She was in no hurry to move so that I could see around her, but when I COULD see around her, our little car was up in our yard!!  (So, she THINKS she MAY have hit our car?!)    She had come around a corner far too fast, was looking down (?!) and plowed right into the car, shoving it about 20 feet into our yard!   

I am a little amazed at how some people react to their own guilt.  Of course, I called the police and then I let her call her husband.  At the time, my DH worked just down the street, so I called him home, too.  I welcomed her into my home and got her something to drink and tried to calm her nerves.  She was too shaken up to call her insurance, so I got her info and called.  The lady on the other end said that she needed to talk to the woman.  I went out the front and told her that the insurance lady wanted to speak to her...her response?  "I'M A LITTLE TOO SHAKEN TO UP TO TALK RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!"    (Now, keep in mind that MY little car was totaled and SHE could still drive HERS home!)  I hate to say it, but at that second, I could feel the blood rush to my face and I was NOT interested in feeling sorry for her destroying my car any longer!  To top it off, when I went back to the phone, the insurance lady said that she had let her policy lapse!  OH........I was having fun now!    So, I calmly asked the lady on the phone to hold and went out to where the lady, the officer taking the report and my DH were talking and told them the news.  She was not the least bit happy to finally have to go inside and talk to the insurance lady...stomping all the way in!  Well, her husband finally came and we were relieved to find that they had changed insurance companies and really DID have insurance.

Now here's a puzzlement...that happened in the spring, later that year we saw them at a county fair and they stared us down when they passed us like we were criminals!  What had we done besides show her compassion, even when she screamed at me?  Well, LORD please deal with our hearts and our attitudes, cause them to come to a saving knowledge of YOU and help me let this ago...again.    

Sometimes it's hard to live in a fallen world, isn't it? 

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><