Happy Lent....is that a thing...? I mean it's more of a somber time. But whatever it's Lent. Which if you are even remotely catholic it means you eat seafood on Ash Wednesday and every Friday until Easter.
This past Friday we were super excited to get some boiled seafood. We were ready for our first batch of Crawfish & Fixins!!! Since it's just the two of us we ordered it instead of boiling it ourselves.
Hubs was running late from work so I went to go pick it up. We were about to get some bad weather so I was trying to beat the rain.
As per usual I ordered from this little hole in the wall seafood place a few min from my house. I was in a really good mood. I had gotten a lot done for work, done some miles, eaten a fairly healthy lunch, cleaned some of the house, ya know just very productive.
After getting my yummy dinner I headed back to my car. Mind you it was a really dark street (two lights were out) and it was cloudy so no moon. I was be-bopping along when it happened. I stepped on what I thought was gravel. It was not...it was a pothole about 4 inches deep. What happened next was in extreme slow motion.
I stepped and felt the gravel give away into a hole. My right foot went down. My forward momentum pushed me forward causing it to twist inward. I tried to recover but I just couldn't quite get my other foot to come forward. Instincts kicked in and my arms flew forward to catch myself. This meant my hand holding my bag of food released said bag of food like a sling shot. Which went flying about 8 feet into the street. I flew forward hitting the asphalt on my two hands and left knee. To release the twist on my ankle I flipped over onto my back.
This happened in literal seconds but it felt like an eternity of falling. I just laid there in the dark wet street, staring at the clouds, contemplating life. My brain rebooted and I realized lying in the middle of a dark street was probably extremely dangerous and decided to get up.
I ungracefully rolled onto my stomach and tried to stand. My ankle gave out and the ground was rushing back at me when I suddenly stopped. I looked up through my disheveled hair and realized there was a car about 4-5 feet from me with the driver door open and said driver was currently keeping me from re-face planting into the ground.
He got me mostly standing and seemed very concerned about me. Aside from extreme embarrassment, bleeding palms and a gangster limp I was fine. Don't ask me how but my food somehow survived the shot put throw. But can I tell you how hard it is to drive a standard with a busted knee and ankle?!?!?
Also, can you imagine being that driver? Just minding your business when some little blonde throws her food at you and just lays in the middle of the street. He probably thought I had a medical emergency or something...
Mind you I had to stop at the store after this. I tried to hide my bloody palms & limp, but the cashier noticed and was like WTF....?
I had to SCRUB my hands to get the debris out. I wanted to cry but I also wanted it out of my skin! In less that a week I had blood dripping down my face and then my palms. I am a hot mess!
