Darn

                                                             Darn it all 


...Here I was, happy as I've ever been and going a bit quickly for icy conditions as I neared my house on the country road. Swish swash swish and over the embankment - lost control and wound up upside down on the snowy ground. I don't even like to write it. The memory grates and I blame me for letting it happen. I'm a very good driver - and careful too - and I take very good care of my pick-up - I love my pick-up - Ruffy Tuffy I call him. Now, he's sitting at an auto repair station - unhappy as can be - roof dented in - the passenger side window broken out where they pulled me out. I was in disbelief - a nightmare become solid. Nothing I could do but blow the horn and squeak out - "help me" - good grief,,,about two hundred yards from my house on the way back from a haircut and a purchase of new packet of white paper for the printer. Well, at least the insurance had car rental assistance and I can get around - for another week. Five hundred dollar deductible for the repairs - I hope. I need Ruffy Tuffy back - I pray for his speedy recovery and return to our cozy garage - well sometimes too cold in the winter garage. Working so hard and things going down hill. The only sensible hope I have is that it's on the way to something better - that this dormant weakness that had been somehow able to affect my day in such a terrible way - will erase and leave a wider and deeper future very much the opposite in effect - a better Ruffy Tuffy pick-up truck and better roads as well. I didn't really want to write this story, but it had to be done....