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Complaining about the sunlight hurting my eyes.
The other day, my mom was driving and the sun came out. It had been cloudy all day, so I hadn't brought my sunglasses. She had two pairs of sunglasses in the car and fished around to get them, saying I could use one.
Unbeknownst to me, I distracted her right when she needed to make a turn. We had to make a quick U-turn and get back on track.
Moments later, we had to stop because the road ahead was blocked. Apparently someone had been speeding and there was a fatal accident. We heard the details of the news later that day.
My mom was moved by how, if we hadn't missed that first turn, we could've been at the intersection where it happened. I mean, my mindset is more, "Maybe the accident wouldn't have happened?" But there's only so much we can account for in life. If she sees it as, "Hey, our fuck up turned out to have saved us," I can support that.