After watching Community the other day, there several "timelines" that I can imagine could have existed today. When the alarm rang at 5:45 am, I rolled over and asked Tara if she would be driving me to the train station at 6:30. She told me to take the car and she would walk to pick it up from the train station later. I reminded her to pick up our package that was awaiting us at the post office, and got ready for work. When it was time to leave I decided to be a good husband and walk to the train station, leaving the car at home for Tara. I'm sure you can imagine how many potential timelines could have existed here.
We exchanged a few text messages around 8:30 regarding the whereabouts of the car. Between 8:30 and 9:00 I was playing a very annoying game of telephone tag with one of my coworkers who is in the field, during which I discovered that my Blackberry is broken and can't make or receive phone calls. I did however receive a very cryptic voicemail around 9:30 from some American named Virginia who was calling on behalf of Tara, and she asked me to call Tara back as soon as I could.
A phone call like this is everyone's nightmare, so I called Tara back right away. She answered the phone sobbing and in hysterics, but I was able to glean a bit of information from her before she said she had to go and hung up: basically just that she was in a car accident, she was fine, and the car was slightly damaged. I later learned the rest of the details: she was driving down the middle lane of a 3 lane street behind a large truck. The truck suddenly swerved, revealing a large box in the middle of Tara's lane. In a split second, she evaluated her options: there were cars on either side of her so she couldn't swerve. She slammed on the brakes and stopped short of the box. The car behind her was traveling at a safe distance and managed to stop in time. The two cars behind him were neither following at a safe distance nor obeying the speed limit so the next two cars piled into the guy behind Tara, pushing his car into ours.
Everybody exchanged information, Tara went to the police station to report the accident, and then went to school to carry on with her day. I advised that she should see a doctor to get herself checked out, just in case. She went to see the nurse on campus who told Tara to go to the hospital. Tara phoned me at about 1:30 asking me to meet her at the hospital. Not a good day for me to bail out of work early, as my boss is away and I've got his delegation of authority and a bunch of stuff to do. I told her I would come as soon as I could, and was able to wrap everything up in an hour and then jump on the train for the 1.5 hour trip to Gold Coast. I got here at 4:30 and it's 8:00 now and Tara's just now receiving a clean bill of health. 1 needle, 1 neck brace, 2 panadol, 2 codeine, and 1 CT scan later...
Oh, and I found another spider in the house. Not nearly as big as the last one, and dead when I found him which made it easier to catch.
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