I didn't see any thread for the game day experience, so I thought I would start one. Only mine started before the game.
We almost didn't make it. (See: Photo) We were headed north on 41.
Some yahoo x number of vehicles ahead stepped on their brakes.
Chain reaction, of course. The pickup ahead of us made a dead stop. We were just making the stop and I was thinking, "I hope the car behind us can..." and then WHAM. Pushed the car under the pickup. Picture shows what the car looked like after the truck was hauled off. Son was driving his girlfriend's car. He has whiplash, she got bruised up. Both with scrapes from the airbags. Grandson and I were in the back. Our glasses went flying off. It looked and smelled smoky to me so I was yelling we needed to get out of there, but it was just the air bags. (I never experienced them before.) Grandson and I felt sore from the seat belts. This was a more violent rear-end collision than the one I had in my car a few years back. Believe it or not, we're lucky the gf *had* a hybrid. The back end is reinforced to protect the batteries. I had a container of cookies next to me and they went flying. Son and gf said they remember seeing all those flying cookies before the air bags deployed.
My son has a friend who lives not too far away, but he was at the game. His friend called his wife to have her pick us up in his truck, and let us use it to get to the game and then home.
It was gratifying to have people stop to help. A couple of nurses stopped and helped son's gf by making sure she didn't have anything broken, etc. I hope the others were able to find their way to see at least part of the game. We missed the first few minutes of the first quarter. The game seemed almost surreal after what we had just gone through. I admit, we were a bit subdued but I did manage to scream and yell when required.
I'm a bit sore and achy today but went to work and made it through the day.
(Moderator: feel free to move this to the Lounge if more suitable for that forum.)