Strangers paid me to teach them to knit tonight!!!

It was a nice capper to an evening which started out with me running into someone, and then someone running into me.

We're all fine,. 

Some idiot slammed on his breaks, causing the car in front of me to break sharply. I skidded into her towing hitch. And the little VW Beetle behind me slammed into me.

I have a reese-hitch-shaped divot in my front bumper and a broken gas gauge. The lady I hit has a scratch on her bumper. The lady who hit me smashed in the entire front of her car, and popped her radiator and possibly other things.

The cop would have been justified in giving me and the VW lady a ticket. Instead he wished me a happy birthday and told me to drive more carefully. The VW lady was a bit indignant when I said we'd probably get tickets because it was "the idiot in the white truck's fault." The cop told her that technically he was an asshole but it wasn't his fault. It was our fault for not paying close enough attention and for following too close. I thought for a minute that she was going to talk us into a ticket, but the cop was an older guy and was just amused.

The car is running fine, and I'm going to take it to my mechanic friend tomorrow to make sure nothing drastic is shaken loose on the gas tank and that it's just a loose wire for the gauge.

And then a stranger and her daughter paid me to teach them how to knit. And made admiring noises about my granddaughter :) AND they'll be back week after next to learn more stuff. And I have two more new customers coming next week.  yay!  making money doing something I like!!