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What might have been ...

Well, without meaning to do so, I actually came up with something new that concerned my navel that I could share with you tonight. Of course, it might take some work to set it up so as to allow you to understand how it happened. It seems that they started some sewer/water line work on the street right behind the one on which I live. For some reason, their work has caused them to cut into the street which I use to go to my friendly neighborhood convenience store. Sometimes I drive and sometimes I walk. Tonight I decided to walk. Normally, I would have had no problems walking to the store as usual, but due to the construction, there was only room on the street for one car to pass through that area at a time. However, as I was just walking past that point, I saw a school bus coming up the street, and quickly backed up to a fence to avoid getting hit by that school bus as it swerved in my direction to avoid the barricade erected around the construction site. I could actually feel the breeze of said school bus on my navel, it came so close. I am pretty sure the driver of the school bus did not see me, but I saw that school bus coming my way, thankfully, or I could be dead meat at this very moment. However, as my luck and great skills of observation would have it, I escaped unscathed, although my navel was severely traumatized by the whole episode. Such concludes tonight's report.