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cabbitzillaYes, ladyfurs and gentlebeings, mowed down. Cut down in the prime of life. Maimed from out of the blue, and left stunned on the ground as the attacker raced away.
A WalMart shopping cart.
To explain, it's VERY windy here today. Enough that the gusts are knocking folks over and pushing even larger vehicles all over the road. Normally, that wouldn't phase me much; I am, after all, the world's only 350lb cabbit. Such things might rock me, but I generally lean into it and keep moving. This time, it just didn't work out that way, though.
I'm pulling a longer shift today, to cover the office while most everyone else is stuck attending a meeting at Main. So instead of leaving work roughly 11:30ish, I took a lunch break... which meant a leftover box lunch from yesterday's Microsoft CIO Summit and a large Coke from McD's up the road. There's a WalMart in that same shopping center, and I've been twitching to buy either another nightgown or some cute pjs, so I parked the truck and headed off across the lot for the store.
I didn't make it. A woman leaving the store let go of her shopping basket to fish her keys from her purse, and the wind grabbed said buggy and whipped it across the lot. It slammed into my right knee just as I shifted my weight to that leg, so down I went like a (very large) sack of potatos. The cart tumbled OVER me, landed on the wheels again, and then tore off across the lot like the hounds of hell were after it and slammed into the side of an H3 Hummer (it bounced off, no damage to the Humongous, figures). The poor woman was frantic, trying to pick me up (!!) from amidst her spilled parcels and apologizing over and over again. I'm a bit sore, granted, but it was quite a shock.
Half an hour later... it's more funny than anything, but what the hell. :p
A WalMart shopping cart.
To explain, it's VERY windy here today. Enough that the gusts are knocking folks over and pushing even larger vehicles all over the road. Normally, that wouldn't phase me much; I am, after all, the world's only 350lb cabbit. Such things might rock me, but I generally lean into it and keep moving. This time, it just didn't work out that way, though.
I'm pulling a longer shift today, to cover the office while most everyone else is stuck attending a meeting at Main. So instead of leaving work roughly 11:30ish, I took a lunch break... which meant a leftover box lunch from yesterday's Microsoft CIO Summit and a large Coke from McD's up the road. There's a WalMart in that same shopping center, and I've been twitching to buy either another nightgown or some cute pjs, so I parked the truck and headed off across the lot for the store.
I didn't make it. A woman leaving the store let go of her shopping basket to fish her keys from her purse, and the wind grabbed said buggy and whipped it across the lot. It slammed into my right knee just as I shifted my weight to that leg, so down I went like a (very large) sack of potatos. The cart tumbled OVER me, landed on the wheels again, and then tore off across the lot like the hounds of hell were after it and slammed into the side of an H3 Hummer (it bounced off, no damage to the Humongous, figures). The poor woman was frantic, trying to pick me up (!!) from amidst her spilled parcels and apologizing over and over again. I'm a bit sore, granted, but it was quite a shock.
Half an hour later... it's more funny than anything, but what the hell. :p
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Date: 2006-02-17 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-17 08:26 pm (UTC)Many, many moons ago (a lot more of then than I really care to think about) my mother and I had gone to the local supermarket so she could pick up some perscriptions. I waited in the car while she was in the store and watched as a fellow rolled a cart up to his car, loaded the groceries into his car and drove off; leaving the cart to dangle in the middle of a couple parking spaces.
This cart, however, was a homing cart. Since it wanted to go back home, it started lazily rolling down the sloping parking lot. In the meantime, the man pulled out onto the street then turned in the next entryway, came down the side of the parking lot and pulled up to park in the 'no parking; fire lane' strip along the front entryway of the store...
Just in time for the homing cart to bump right into his car's fender!
Luckily for me, the gentleman couldn't see me laughing as he was cussing out the stupid MoFo that had left a cart roll back down the lot.
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Date: 2006-02-18 08:21 am (UTC)... and stepped into a hole where a floor tile had been moved. Strangely, I didn't realize I was falling and as soon as it happened, it took me a few moments to figure out why I was hip-deep in a hole in the floor.
It looks like there's no permanent damage... a big bruise on my calf and a smaller one on my arm. Anyway, your recounting of the Wal-mart experience makes me think "Well, my week could have been worse, at least I wasn't RUN OVER by a shopping cart!"