Christmas Tree Oops

Sometime when I was in High school, my mom decided we needed to buy a real tree for Christmas. We had always had fake trees but for some reason she thought it was necessary that while I was in High school that it was very important to have a live tree. I remember we went down to the local Target and bought the tree. We had a AMC Concord and had to put the tree in the trunk which of course didn't fit properly, so it was tied down with the trunk lid just barely covering it. We made it almost all the way home. We had just taken a corner onto our home street when the trunk lid went flying open. I was in the back seat when my mom shouted for me to make sure the tree was still in the trunk. She hadn't stopped the car yet but slowed down to a crawl seeing we were feet away from the drive way.
I wasn't paying too much attention seeing I was diverted by the chaos going on behind me. I think she meant to just look out the back window and peer through the gap between the trunk lid and the car body but me being me, I flew open the back door and stepped out not even thinking that the car was still rolling. The tree was still there but as I looked, the rear tire clipped my heal and proceeded to roll right over my foot. In the same instant my mom slammed on the breaks and the tire stopped on top of heal. I wasn't screaming but I asked in a calm voice for her to move the car, that it was on top of my foot. My mom, not comprehending what was happening just said "Oh". She threw the car in reverse and my foot was free. Once back inside the car, we dropped the tree off and raced to urgent care. I don't remember much about this part but I do remember when the doctor said that I would have to have my jeans cut to get them off, that I was mortified. I remember my mom saying, well if you want to spare your jeans then we'll have to leave before they fix you (she was teasing of course) but me being a teen I was like, ok. She she grabbed the end of the gurny and started to wheel me and that make me freak even more. She just laughed. She had no intenstion of taking me out but just wanted to lighten the mood.
After all these years, I still have a peperoni size scar on the side of my heel where the tire squished me. I never did break anything but the skin got compressed and formed a perfectly round wound. Weird huh?
Toot

Meeting my hubby

Well I thought I'd skip way ahead and talk about my hubby for a bit. I met him when he and I were setting up a sporting goods store. We both worked there part time. I was in the camping/climbing department. He was in the general athletics area. The store hadn't opened yet and we were still setting up our respective departments. I had finished my tasks early and we told to go help our the athletics department. They were working on setting up home gym equipment. I went over to the department and asked what I could do to help. There was this muscular man with a really bad hair cut, who handed me a can of hairspray and said I could start putting the foam protection on the parts that needed it. I guess hairspray gives the foam some slickness when you slid it on and then dries quickly to help adhere it? Anywho, I did this for a few hours and chatted him up. I don't remember much more of that day but my best friend in the world says that she remembers me coming home and calling her to tell her about my day. She says I told her I met a guy at work and that I could totally see myself marrying him. Which shocked her because for all intensive purposes, I was dead set on moving to Canada to become a hermit, LOL. Not that I'm not that attractive, I just had a clear idea of where my life was headed and the path I was on. I did not want anything to do with marriage. I came from a broken home and marriage was not my idea of a great future.
So as time went on, the guy in the athletics department became fast friends with another guy in the camping department. He was always hanging around our area, which was a big no no. I think we set up the store and were ready for business in August or September. By that Christmas, things with my regular boyfriend were starting to cool, in fact on this particular day, I think we even had a fight. The athletics man came over to me in my department and asked if I knew of any good places to find Christmas gifts. When I was younger, I had worked at a music box store and there was one in the mall. Not knowing who he needed gifts for, I suggested the music box store, figuring it would at least be a reasonable offer as a solution. He nodded and said thanks. A few hours later, I saw the athletics guy again in the store. He had tons of bags in his hand and all from the music box store. He had bought his entire family music boxes based only on my suggestion. I was in utter shock! He then said to me "Thanks so much for the suggestion. I got all my shopping done." I think I was still in amazement. I don't remember saying anything back but I know I turned and was straightening some clips when he said "So wanna go out to a movie or something, just as a thank you." and my classic reply was "Sure, I don't have anything better to do."
That is a true story and we still joke about it to this day!
Well we did go on that date which was funny in itself. We dated for the next two years and eventually got married. We've now been married for 13 years this May. Wow time flies!!!!
Toot