My son, wife and I decided to go for ice cream at our favorite place in Woodstock tonight. It's a Dairy Queen type place, only much cheaper with better ice cream. Anyway, we are inside waiting to get our ice cream. My son and I got ours and we were waiting for my wife to get hers. This place has an eat-in area. We usually sit near at the tables next to the window. The lady just hands my wife her ice cream cone when I hear one helluva BANG. I turn around to find a car driving right into the building! Glass flew everywhere. At first I thought the car had caugh fire because of all the smoke, but in fact it was from the tires spinning. The driver, a woman in her early 60's had the gas pedal right to the floor! She finally clued in and took her foot off the gas. It was the grace of God no one was hurt. My son and I were about 5 feet away from where the car came in. The bricks under the window were damaged as well. Three large plate windows had shattered. I can't believe we weren't hit by glass. There were two other ladies with a small (2-3 year old boy) He was running around in the area the car hit only a minute or so prior. His mom had gone over and picked him up. We were all pretty shaken up. My son handled it well but said his legs were still jelly when we got home. I'm going to keep an eye on him. Sometimes these types of incidences don't hit you until after several hours. It's the "what if
's" that freak me out. What if we were sitting there? What if.. Every table except where those ladies and that young boy was damaged and tipped over.
I'm counting my blessings tonight!
  Todd