The good in the bad (and vice versa)

I don't haul my butt to the "Compose" link that often any more, but I figured it was time to put a couple of short things up.

The bad: Just yesterday morning my car was rear-ended while I was on the way to work. I was stopped behind some other cars at a stop light, and we were all going very slowly, including the guy behind me...he just wasn't paying any attention and he didn't stop. The good news is that there didn't appear to be any damage to the car, and even though I was holding up my coffee at the time, only a little bit spilled (thanks to whoever invented the thermal mug!). It's now about 28 hours since the accident and though I have bit of stiffness in my neck and shoulders, it looks like I might have escaped whiplash...it was a pretty good jolt and I wasn't expecting it, so my neck did the old heave ho when the car was hit. I know that the effects of whiplash can take some time to manifest but I'm crossing my fingers.

The good: This happened a while back but I wanted to mention it. At the beginning of the month I arrived back in Toronto after a trip to Los Angeles for the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. I was pretty exhausted by the time I finally arrived back home I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have -- I had put my wallet in my lap while I was paying the cab driver, and when I stood up to get out it dropped into the gutter.  I didn't even realize that I had dropped the thing until the doorbell rang at 8am the next morning, and a woman I'd never met put it into my hand with all of the contents intact. I thanked her but I have to admit that I was still half asleep and partly in shock and I didn't have the presence of mind to offer her a reward for bringing it back. I know the chance of her stumbling across this and realizing that I'm talking about her is pretty minimal, but if it happens: Thank you again for bringing it back to me intact, and I'm sorry I wasn't thinking straight at the time. The honesty you showed was very very much appreciated. I often think that people are ruled by selfishness but I know that's not always the case. I once did the same thing--returned a wallet that had fallen onto the sidewalk--so maybe it's true that what goes around comes around.