This is an original story about my daughter's encounter with a Guardian Angel Dude during a trip to Texas! She has a flare to writing which I hope you will enjoy!
My Angel Surfer Dude!
© 2005 R. Duling
Okay, okay. So I didn’t really see the Angel. But if I could’ve, it would’ve been an awesome sight! Standing there on top of it, just like a “surfer-dude!”
It happened around Ft. Worth in June of 2002. A red pick-up, with no back door flap, was in the lane to my right, four to 5 car lengths ahead. We’re going 60 mph. Suddenly, a white, molded, plastic lawn chair flew out of the back of the pickup. I saw it slide around and wondered where it was going to stop!
And of course, it slid right over into my lane and stopped!
I had just a split second to check my side mirror for the lane beside me (it was 4-5 lanes), with no one was there, I swerved just in time. I didn’t want to wreck my undercarriage, you know!
I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a semi do the same thing (he could have crushed that little thing if he had wanted to), but I don’t think he looked in his side mirror, because another car was there and the semi driver had to swerve to his left….only the road had those 3-foot high cement walls that they use for construction, and he about got pushed right into that!
Yikes! As I passed that pickup truck ahead of me (it had slowed down some), they were looking back, hands over their mouths, and exchanging glances and looks, and I think they decided to keep on moving…I felt bad for them. I think they felt guilty. But by this time, they had gone way past that point in the road, too! And what do you do? Stop in the middle of an interstate and walk back to get a “plastic chair” and cause even more problems? I doubt it!
Anyway, about that “Angel surfer dude”. If I could have seen him, he probably hopped onto that lawn chair and rode it into my lane!
Then another Angel gave my van a friendly push to the side at just the right time to avoid the chair and the “Angel surfer dude”. Then along comes the semi!
The 2nd Angel flies over to between the truck and the car, provides a cushion of air, while a third Angel flies to the other side of the car, providing a cushion of air between it and the cement dividers!
In the meantime, “Angel surfer dude” continues to ride the wave and the chair slides into the next lane. I think after that, he managed to ride it to just beside the cement wall, so no one else had to worry about that “wave of death”!
Picture it! Cool, huh?