Car Wreck Nightmares

            Both dreams I remember were car wreck related. One involved a bunch of us in a car going over the edge of the road, and discovering that the gentle slope we'd rolled off onto was only gentle until it came to the top of a retaining wall, where the fall was closer to ten stories of near vertical drop to the roadway below.

            The second one had a benign enough beginning, N and I were at Mom and Dad's, my brother and sister were there with their families as well. I think the occasion was a Thanksgiving celebration. We had just had a break after dinner, and Mom and the grandkids decided to take a walk down around the hill. Dad decided he needed to get hearing aid batteries, as his replacements were dead. N and I were cleaning up the dishes when the kids came running back into the driveway all distraught.

            "Grandpa's pancaked in the car!" Mom us huffing up the hill behind them. She was hollering for her car keys. I got the keys, but made Mom get in the passenger seat; she was too upset to drive. We drove down to the accident scene where the older grandkids were trying to help get Dad out of the crushed truck. He'd been sandwiched between a panel truck in front of him and a large SUV that had tried to drive right over him by the look of things. I could hear the ambulances in the distance.

            I woke myself up by groaning out "Oh! No!" and frightening the cats, who bounded away. I'm surprised that N slept through it.

 

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