So a lot of my time away from FA is spent thinking, I *could* get caught up on some of my stacks! but I can always do it tomorrow. Today I had a gentle reminder that one day, tomorrow doesn't come, and you can never be sure when that day will be.

So at lunch today I hit the freeway headed for her local mall food court. I hadn't gone half a mile when I saw a couple things fly off the back of the flat bed tow truck a couple hundred yards ahead. That got my attention but didn't prepare me for what happened next: the ENTIRE RIGHT SIDE of the tow truck's load ripping right off.

In hindsight I'm not completely sure whether the wall came completely loose. All I knew in that moment was there a huge load of debris flying straight my way.

Thankfully, I had enough distance that I had time to react, and hit the brakes. That allowed all but the lightest of debris to fall to the road in front of me. At that point I had to decide whether to swerve into the next lane. Even though the freeway was relatively empty I didn't have time to check he mirrors to see if it was clear, so I ended up driving into the debris field,

At that point I'm thinking, great, there goes another tire, but somehow I managed to dodge everything. Then I passed the tow truck, which had pulled over, and noticed that its load was this thoroughly rusted out camping trailer. Not a speck of paint or unrusted metal to be seen on the thing. I gave some thought to pulling over myself to assess the scene but hunger got the better of me and so I moved on. It was clear that if I wasn't hurt nobody else was either.

In the end I lucked out, not even a scratch on the car. But it was definitely a reminder that you just never know when the worst can happen. Today I came away with nothing more than a story to tell. Next time, who can say?

Lesson learned.