It sounds lame and fabricated but it happened!

I get you there! Sometimes we are into situations like this and we ourselves couldn't believe it! I have a bad name among my close friends who keep teasing me about mt SUNDAY obsession with cleanliness. I would not let go it and join them in fun activities from morning or sleep over the night before. And oneday when I was just lying down, taking rest for I wasn't feeling good, they would not believe me just for the fact that it was a Sunday! They felt that i was doing chores and so that was a lame excuse for not joining them from the morning. Life is like that!

Haha. Yes, once on my way to an appointment I was involved a wreck caused by a watermelon truck. It was rush hour traffic time in Dallas, Texas and in the mix with us all was a man hauling a double-sized flatbed truck full of watermellons. Rainy weather and I don't think the flatbed had proper breaks. Caused a six car pile up and I was third in line. I was on my way to a job interview so I had allowed plenty of time to find my way. I was not late getting there, but I looked like a wet rat after dealing with insurance exchange and what not out in the rain. As if I had scripted the interview myself, one of the first questions to me was, how do you think you will deal with daily rush hour traffic. My response was that it can't get any worse than it was today. I had a chance to laugh, tell him the story and leave a good impression that I had allowed time for something like that to happen. I GOT the job!

No, I must say that nothing like that ever happened to me, except for the time that in the office pool where I was considered to be the least likely person to ever get stopped by a traffic officer, on followed me into the work parking lot and to the great amusement of my coworkers and also the supervisor, proceeded to nail me for taking me seat belt off before the car had stopped running. He followed me on suspicion of a blinking tail light and then fined me for taking the seat belt off when I went to get my license out for him. Talk about lame. There went a day's wages.

I can only think of a few places where horse and buggies would be seen as normal - New Orleans and all Amish country. But I would probably have done just as you did, give the horse the right of way because the car might have bothered him. I've never had an experience like you where I had to explain why I had been late, and hope I never do. Even out here in the country where I live (between towns), it would be unbelievable.

Well, if you have a cellphone that takes pictures, you at least would be able to have evidence! How very interesting. I would love to have a horse to ride around town just to make everyone else late. I wonder where it would go while I was at school, though.

Theres alot of horse driven carraiges where i live so it would be a reasonable excuse for me when i was in school my dog literally ate my homework teacher wouldnt believe me =[