here's a fun one ..

A couple of years ago i was returning from a company event around 4:30 PM.
I was stopped behind another car who was making a left hand turn into a residence.
We had to wait quite a while because of the oncoming traffic - so we were probably there for 90 seconds or more.

All of a sudden i found myself being thrown around the van ..
my seat broke and i went back…my cameras and lenses were flying around (i had them out because i had recently stopped to shoot a landscape)

There was no warning - no tires squealing …
the guy in the little car hit me dead on - no attempt to stop. He could have seen me a half a mile away stopped - but for some unknown reason he just plowed into me.
He made a last second attempt to swerve - hitting me 3/4 - driving me into oncoming traffic - if i hadn't hit the car in front of me i would have been hit by oncoming cars.

i had a sore neck and a scraped arm but was otherwise unharmed - until i punched my car when i saw the camera gear all over the inside of the van. (amazingly - nothing was damaged - just a slightly cracked lens hood)

the van was deemed beyond repair - so now i have another one - black - a couple of years newer.

never found out what happened to the idiot behind me but the police was pretty sure he was getting charged.

He was probably texting while driving. Idiot. Glad you weren't hurt badly! And your camera equipment!

Damn that was lucky you weren't thrown into traffic!

I was waiting on a bus to work and I noticed a bunch of people driving and not paying attention. My favorite was a guy steering with his knees while eating McDonald's ::roll eyes::

I'll agree with the texting......people are idiots. I was behind some dude a couple of years back, and he was swerving all over the road. As I pulled next to him it get away from what I was sure was drunk, I noticed he had a newspaper on his steering wheel.....the fucking idiot was reading the newspaper at 70 MPH

I see people texting every day on the way to work. I try to pull up beside them and honk

The worst part of my accident is that I had to work the next day - then drive to Cleveland for a convention where I was shooting Linnea

Luckily the insurance company had a loaner for me right away
I had a bit of a delayed reaction though - about 90 min into our shoot Saturday night, Linnea says - youre looking white - and we stopped because I was feeling off
Fine the next day though

Shot something new today - what my kid just started doing ….

More Iphone pics .

me being a crazy cat lady

Just loves those kitties!!!::smile::

The Directors.

I might have posted a couple already - and forgive me for being in a bunch of these - the sight of myself makes me wince - but i wanted to have all of these in one place together ..

part 2