[This one's from last week.]
My grandmother and I are in a bigger version of her modest, newish silver SUV. We are driving -- er, trying to park, more accurately -- atop some kind of platform structure where the ground is actually a series of sunken trays that hold moving water. Please don't expect me to explain it any better than that. It makes no sense. Why moving water instead of asphalt? Hell if I know. It almost sounds like some stupid Fear Factor stunt.
Anyway, we're moving slowly, backing up, going this way and that, and I'm nervous that we're going to fall off the platform. She maneuvers us onto a piece of platform that looks as though it's for authorized personnel only. I tell her we should go somewhere else, and as she's backing up, we careen off the platform -- the fall feels like it takes forever, and I am aware of my own screaming -- and we hit the concrete below with a thud and a pop of the tires blowing out. Luckily, we land on all four tires and are not hurt. And no one -- since there are people everywhere around us -- seems to have been crushed by our vehicle.
I am freaking out, of course. I make sure Grandmaw is okay before getting out of the car and just walking around for a bit to collect myself.
1 comment:
It sounds to me like you know you can land on your feet no matter the difficulty of the situation.
You and your grandmother managed to maneuver into a spot one time, even though you felt it wasn't quite right. So, you can solve difficult problems, but you're not always satisfied with your solution.
I hate anxiety dreams. For the record, out of the few dreams I remember, I don't think I've ever stayed asleep long enough to hit bottom when I'm falling.
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