I was in an accident yesterday.
Not a serious one by any standards: I was stationary in a traffic jam on the motorway (this was in Holland and it was raining: what else is new...), and this guy in a big mercedes was not paying attention and rolled right into Hedwig's towing hook.
There was no visible damage, except that (besides the marbles he never had) the man is now one license plate short. That, however, is not the point of this story...
The point came to light this morning. I haven't slept well: I kept having bad dreams and the cat kept meowing at me. No wonder then, that I'm not feeling up to scratch at the moment. I always get headaches when I'm tired, but now, with every twitch and twang I scare myself senseless: 'Aaargh, I've got whiplash!'. There's nothing wrong with me! I get shaken around more every time I ride a rollercoaster!
But the worse was when I stepped into the car to go to work this morning. I spent more time looking in the rearview mirror than I did watching the road in front of me. I jumped every time someone got too close behind me (imagine, I was sitting in yet another traffic jam. Every car was too close behind me). And most of all, with every bump in the road I thought that poor Hedwig was falling to pieces...
Completely paranoid. I think I'll call the garage to have them check her out, just in case.
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I know just how you feel. I was like that for months. A way to get round it is to set your rearview mirror to night mode. that way you'll still be able to see whats going on behind you, but you won't see every movement of every car out of the corner of your eye, whcih is what ends up distracting you and creates dangorous situations.
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