Re: I think I have a guardian angel.
Carol, my heart goes out to you. I'm so pleased you feel a little calmer and better now.
I do believe that HWMO and I have Guardian Angels looking after us.
Your experience reminded me of when HWMO and I were travelling alongside Weston Hall on the old A5 in Shropshire many years ago. It's one very long country road with just two lanes, no turnings and no pavements.
We had been travelling from London to my parents home for the weekend, Evening was just setting in and the road was very quiet from traffic apart from the one car behind us which was keeping a respectable distance. There was only one car ahead coming in the opposite direction when HWMO said ''What the hell is he doing?'' I had been reading a magazine when he said this and looked up to see the car coming towards us veering into our lane, back into his own lane, our lane, his lane - all the time he was getting closer and closer to us. The worse thing is there was absolutely nowhere to escape it. All HWMO could do was slam on the brakes and pray that he would miss us! The car behind us did the same. We were convinced the driver must be drunk as a skunk. As he neared all we could do was grip each others hand and watch horrified as he veered back into his own lane and then he was upon us, veering back onto our lane and convinced he was going to hit us. But he came over behind us, back onto his lane and then we watched in horror as he veered over to our lane again and smashed into the stationary car behind us, causing it to roll over at least three times before it stopped on its roof. It was truly horrific to watch.
Of course,back then there were no such things as mobile phones but thankfully there was an isolated cottage on the road and HWMO ran over and asked the occupant to ring the emergency services. The driver who had smashed into the car was standing in the road repeating over and over that his steering had gone completely and he couldn't stop the car?!!, but we were more worried about the poor couple in the car that had been behind us and taken the full impact with that awful consequence.
Thankfully, as HWMO and the guilty driver were trying to comfort the couple, we heard and then saw the ambulance racing towards us. Me, I was pretty damned useless! To my shame, I was so frozen with shock I just continued to sit in the car and didn't move. I couldn't.
However, I was amazed when the couple were helped out of their overturned car as the police arrived, and were able to walk to the ambulance with only cuts and bruises. I was again convinced they had been badly injured but no, it looked as though their own Guardian Angels were definitely looking after those two!
Anyhow, to shorten things, we had to call into Telford police station and make a statement before finishing our journey.
We did find out later that it was all blamed on a blown tyre but I still fail to see how he couldn't have stopped. HWMO says he was travelling far too fast.