very long, tiring and stressful day.....
Driving to work this morning, in the pouring rain, so I was taking it easy (60MPH on the busy motorway)... Hit a big puddle and aqua-planed, ok, scary but done that a few times so I knew what to do.. managed to avoid sliding into a lorry on my inside...
However, as I came out of the aqua-plane life threw me a new experience, I had a blow out. This has never happened to me before in 20+ years of driving including 10 years where I was doing 70,000 miles a year.
Managed to control the car, bringing it across two lanes of traffic (to much beeping and flashing of lights) and resting in the hard shoulder under a bridge.
Got out the car, swore at it, started to try and change the tyre, but I couldn't because the spare tyre bracket was seized, called the AA, joined and then stood under the bridge waiting...
Then it hit me, holy sh1t, I'd just dodged being crushed by a lorry and a couple of cars as the blow out happened and I did my best to control the car.
AA man arrived, adrenaline still pumping, I helped whilst the tyre was swapped. I decided I need to calm down, came off the next junction and stopped for a coffee...
Promptly burst into tears and started shivering, god only knows what the people in the coffee shop thought.
After a short while I had stopped crying, so I went for some retail therapy (which included chocolate), still visibly shaking.
Eventually I calmed down, drove home and went to bed for a short while.

TBH, I actually don't remember much of the 3 hours or so after the AA man finished with my tyre and before I got home, kinda scary.

It's made me stop and think long and hard about my life.
I'm still thinking, I'm still a bit 'shaken'.