On a quest for Lavastone I was hit in the rear by a Sonnet
Thursday night after work I was on a quest for Lavastone, my favorite eye shadow shimmer stick from Merle Norman Cosmetics. I was completely out. Merle Norman closes at 6pm during the week and is located way out in Rosedale near Target. In 5 o’clock traffic, it is a little bit hard to get there from downtown before they close. But I was on a mission.

I was driving down Truxtun extension listening to Chris and Melissa on Kelly 95.3, (boy her laugh annoys me sometimes), when I noticed that traffic was starting to back up a bit, in fact it had come to a stop near Truxtun Lake. The Lake looked quiet and desolate, the water was grayish and a few ducks were swimming about I noticed while I sat there behind a row of stopped cars on Truxtun extension. I enjoyed watching the wind skipping across the water. Storm clouds were starting to roll in, it was supposed to rain this weekend. And then suddenly my serene moment was interrupted…

CRASH! SMASH! KABOOM! OH! That was hard! I thought.

I felt the impact in my neck, shoulders, back and head; instinctively reacting by pushing on the breaks so as not to be pushed into the car in front of me. I looked back at a young woman sitting in the car that had just rear-ended me. She looked young and scared and by the expression on her face I knew she couldn’t believe she had just hit my car. I pulled my car over to the shoulder of the road as close to Truxtun Lake as I could manage and she followed. By that time, traffic had started to move again and getting out of our vehicles was a little bit difficult, but we managed.

“I’m so sorry! Are you hurt?” She asked.

“I’m ok.” I said shocked.

We both surveyed the damage to our vehicles. Mine had a few scratches on the rear bumper and a torn license plate, her hood and front bumper were pretty dented in.

“Are you ok?” I asked her.

“Yeah. I don’t know what happened.” She explained.

“It’s ok, these things happen.” I consoled.

Dressed in business work clothes with her dark hair pulled up with curls falling around her forehead, and glasses she looked innocent and old-fashioned. She was probably working her first job out of college somewhere downtown and this was probably her first accident. This was not the first time I had been rear-ended.

“What do we do?” She asked.

“No one is hurt, let’s exchange insurance information and phone numbers.” I explained.

She wrote down her information and I did the same and we traded pieces of paper and got back into our cars. Pulling back into traffic on Truxtun extension proved to be difficult as well, but soon we were both on our way. She turned left at Truxtun and Coffee and I turned right headed towards Rosedale and Merle Norman and my Lavastone Shimmer Stick.

When I finally reached Merle Norman, they were out of the Lavastone Shimmer Stick and had to special order it for me. Ugh! I couldn’t believe it! Every time I need a Lavastone Shimmer Stick they never have it. And not because it’s a popular item, but just the opposite; which is why they don’t stock very many of them. I bought the other items I was out of, ordered the Lavastone and walked back out to my car to drive home.

In the passenger seat was the piece of paper with the girl’s information that had rear-ended me. I picked it up and read it for the first time.

Sonnet. The girl’s name was Sonnet. I was rear-ended by a girl named Sonnet! I thought disbelieving. I had never met anyone named Sonnet before and now I had been hit in the rear by a Sonnet. How perfect! Sonnet actually fit her innocent, old-fashioned look. I thought. It was perfect for an aspiring writer and poetry lover to be rear-ended by a Sonnet. It was like a cartoon version of NL was kicking me in the rear screaming: “Write damn it! Write! Finish your novel!”

I’ve had a bad headache and a tight neck and shoulders ever since being hit in the rear by a Sonnet. Ahhhh the pain of writing.  posted by Matildakay at 11:36 AM