"Glad she never fell in love with me"

Well since January is nearly over, I suppose there's really no need to continue my chronicle of Christmas vacation. That was ages ago.

Perhaps more interesting will be a brief description of our hit and run adventure on Saturday evening. It was an exciting night in the Rosenberg household. After hours of debating on what we should do on Saturday evening it was decided we would go to Target. After all, I had a Heroes Season 1 rain check and we like walking around that store. Little did we know the journey home would be even more exciting.

On the southern edge of Royal Oak about a mile away from our house we drove south through a flashing yellow light only to be met by a black car driving east through a flashing red light. I saw the car coming in one second and saw him touch his breaks. The next second we both let out a scream as we spun around. If you haven't been in a car accident, a scream I have found is unavoidable. Kind of like when someone scares you...it just comes out.

We came to a rest a full three quarter turn and a lane over resting perpindicular to the curb and nearly touching a telephone pole. We ended facing east and I saw the car step on its breaks for about two seconds before driving off.

Lisa banged her arm very hard on the car door, but other than that we had no injuries. She quickly called 911 to report the accident. A man named Richard stopped to see if we were OK. He had seen us spinning around, but hadn't seen the whole accident.

Our rear passenger wheel area was completely smashed and the car was definitely not driveable. Do flashers help when you're car is sideways in the street? After standing outside in about 10 degree for a few minutes a police officer came to begin the process of creating a report. He called the tow truck and had the car taken away while we sat in the back of the police car with Season 1 of Heroes, our other Target goods and a few other items we thought it would be better to take with us than leave in a car that was going to the tow yard.

The backseat of a police car is made of plastic -- at least in Royal Oak. We waited for about fifteen minutes while the car was towed and the paper work was completed. The police officer poked around outside with his flashlight and came back with a black Chevy Impala grill and said, "Does this look familiar?"

After having a chauffered ride home in the police car, we tried to figure out what to do with ourselves. Riding home in the back of a police car is never a good thing. But its better than riding elsewhere in a police car or riding to a hospital in an ambulance.

We debated going to the Emergency Room to have Rogers' arm checked out as she was in a lot of pain and couldn't move it much. We called my father who was playing canasta with friends to get his input on whether it would do any good to go right away if the bone was in fact broken. We decided to make a sling out of a scarf and wait to go to a Med Center in the morning.

Thankfully, Rogers' arm wasn't broken and is feeling better already. The car wasn't totaled and is being repaired already. Both were the answers to prayer that we were hoping for, praise the Lord.

$5,000 worth of repairs to the Sebring. I'm wondering if State Farm is going to kick us out of coverage since we've had $7,000+ worth of repairs in six months worth of coverage!

Unfortunately, we had to cancel plans to eat at Middle Kingdom "Best Chinese Food" with my aunt and uncle on Sunday. That should tell you how bad the accident was...