I've fallen and I can't get up!

Hm. Could I possibly get through one week accident free? Nope. Not a chance. I feel bad about this one though. I forced O.G. to leave the house 'cause she seemed depressed. I told her we could just go out for ten minutes and I'd take her to get donuts. OF COURSE the freakin' donut place was closed, however she didn't want to go home. So I just kept driving her wherever she wanted to go, the post office. Target. The bank. Until FOUR HOURS LATER, we found ourselves at the mall.

We got out of the car and we were walking across a mall traffic lane, when I heard a *BOOM* and turned around only to see her LYING FACE DOWN IN THE STREET. Holy crap - I screamed, I swear. She'd decided to 'run' because a car was coming. (Uh - it was a good 40 feet away, going 2 miles an hour, but ANYWAY...) She'd tripped over a speed bump and fell face first into the pavement. Good god.

Now, she is 88 years old see, and I thought she was dead. She looked it. Cars were coming, but I couldn't lift her. I dunno, I am a weak ass, and she only weighs 100 pounds but I guess since it was all dead weight it was impossible for me to move her. So this guy jumped out of his car and dragged her to the side of the road. We sat there for a good 30 minutes, until she felt ok. She refused to let me take her to Emergency.

She went to the doctor the next day and the doctor said she was very, very lucky. This all sounds awful, but believe it or not she came out of it mostly unscathed, just slightly bloodied and a little sad. Now I'll never get her out of the house, I'm sure. All of this leads to one thing: Gary Sinise, of course.

~later in the day, after her fall~
O.G.: "Let me reenact my fall for you."
Jenn: "NO THANKS. It's like a goddam C.S.I. episode."
O.G.: "OH! My favorite actor is in that!
Jenn: "What! Who?"
O.G.: "You know. The guy who was in Of Mice and Men."
Jenn: "Lon Chaney!?!"
O.G.: "No, no, the recent version with John Malkovich."
(looking on my iPhone)
Jenn: "imdb tells me you mean...GARY SINISE."
O.G.: "YES! He is my FAVORITE actor!"
Jenn: "What? Since when. What else has he been in that you've even seen? imdb says here...REINDEER GAMES."
O.G.: "No! There's been more. He is a brilliant actor!!"
Jenn: "Oh...Forrest Gump."
O.G. (nearly yelling) "YES! FORREST GUMP! WASN'T HE BRILLIANT IN THAT?!"
Jenn: "Yes I truly believed he had no legs. Maybe he shouldn't have had legs in Reindeer Games either."
O.G.: "He is my favorite actor!!!"