Note: We are all fine.
2. If you fail to follow the above advice, be prepared to become much better acquainted with your liquor cabinet.
Take it from me, I know.
OK, the Dodge didn't actually end up IN my lap, but it sure was trying. We had a very slow-speed meeting with one early this evening on the way home from work/school. Totally his fault, and nobody was hurt physically. Our car, our beautiful brand new and BIG and SAFE Honda Pilot Touring 4WD, is already at the body shop waiting for business hours tomorrow (the body damage is relatively minor, but the front right wheel, where the impact occurred, is seriously out of alignment). If this had happened a couple of months ago, before we acquired this lovely example of automotive engineering, the result of the meeting might have been very different. If we'd been just a few feet farther along in the parking lot where the meeting occurred, the result might have been very different.
But it didn't, and we weren't, so we're all fine. The kids are snug in their beds, I'm comfortably self medicated (Redbreast: Meh. Oban: Yay!), and paperwork and legwork can wait until tomorrow.
I wonder if we have any ice cream in the house…?