Dad and the accident
A good friend of mine mentioned something in his blog: Small Accidents Synchronicity...and Everything in Its Place that triggered a memory of my father. Sometimes my dad was a truck driver, mixed in with all the other many things he'd done for a living over the years. On one of his trips he had an accident. This isn't the kind of accident that immediately comes to mind. It was definitely classified as “something else”. His reasoning for getting upset over it was also something else! To explain dad a bit, WORK mattered more than anything else. Also, he couldn't stand to spend 1 penny on anything that wasn't absolutely 100% necessary. He could convince you that nothing was really necessary just to save a penny. That included any illnesses or injuries that other people would think a visit to a doctor would be necessary for themselves or another family member, no matter how old or young. Repairs were mostly duct tape and bailing wire. Buying anything new was incompr...