My wife and I ate lunch out in Aliso Viejo. I ordered a house special chicken lunch special from Pick-up Stix while my wife ordered chicken alfredo from Pasta Bravo. After lunch, my wife and I went clothes shopping and I purchased a new pin-striped over shirt. After we were finished shopping at the plaza, we were driving home to play World of Warcraft – for the umpteenth millionth time. Unfortunately, unexpected events can happen in our lives which can interrupt our plans, or even the course of one’s life. The former will be more accurate than the latter in this case.
On the way home from our afternoon outing, we were waiting for the traffic light to turn green. Once the light turned green, the intersection appeared to be clear, so I started to proceed to drive through. Unfortunately, a white van appeared to have run what appeared to be a red light and we ended up in a collision with my car flying towards the right. I was able to drive into the spin to pull the car over to the side of the road. After getting out of the car, our vehicle's front-end was smashed and the passenger door was unable to be opened. My wife had to climb out of the back doors to get out of the car. Initially, the other party openly admitted that our light was green while theirs "suddenly turned red". Can we say "beat the light"? A so-called witness stepped in and provided useless information that completely contradicted the stories that myself and the other party claimed. The witness attempted to claim that our light was red and the other party had a green light. Sorry, ma’am, but both parties are in agreement that I had the green light.
Eventually, an ambulance took my wife and I to the hospital as preemptive measures to ensure the baby was alright. Fortunately, the baby turned out fine in the ultrasound and we even learned the baby’s gender: female. Yes, we are going to have a daughter. My wife did not fare so well and she has a fractured knee. She will be on crutches for at least the next four weeks and will be out of work for the next few days. The sheriff's deputy eventually showed up at the hospital to obtain information for the report and harassed me that the entire situation was my fault. Excuse me? I was merely proceeding through a green light while the other party openly admitted to the police officer they were trying to beat the light. The entire accident would have never happened if the other party was not driving so recklessly. The intersection appeared clear so I attempted to proceed through during a green light. The officer was acting like I must have been distracted from possibly a cell phone call or music. I later discovered I accidentally recorded the entire conversation with the other party on my cell phone and they blatantly admitted they ran the light completely red – their light was not even yellow.
The story with the car accident will continue and I am quite sure there will be some fallout. Despite the bad, there were some good as well. We have friends to count on who were there to assist us in our hour of need. Additionally, we now know our baby is a girl. We can now call her "she" instead of "it". She now has an identity, and that makes it feel all the more surreal.
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