I Have Singularly Bad Luck With Flying Objects

[revena]

Jimmy and I have completed the first leg of our journey, and are in Albuquerque for the night. Earlier today, though, just outside Truth or Consequences, we got hit by a flying road sign.

Seriously, could I make something like that up?

Here's how I explained it to mattmatt, just now:

Me: we were driving along on the freeway
Me: and it is super-windy today
Matt: Right
Me: and they have a bunch of road signs out, warning about the possibilities of high winds, ironically
Me: and some of them are temporary, and they're on these little tripod stands with springs so they flop around in the wind and don't get knocked down
Me: well, one of them broke
Me: it was on the left side of the road, and then it was just suddenly airborne
Me: Jameson braked and swerved, but we were going about 75, and he couldn't avoid it entirely
Me: so it slammed into the far right side of the car, and tore off the side-view mirror
Matt: holy shit
Matt: I'm so glad that's all it did
Me: me too
Me: it would have hit the windshield right in front of me if Jimmy hadn';t reacted as fast as he did
Matt: yay Jimmy!
Me: indeed

Here's a picture of the damage, which I took in the McDonald's parking lot in Truth or Consequences. By the time I had finished clicking the shutter on the camera, my shoes were full of sand. It is the windiest day evar, omg.