A little while ago I walked out of my building to my car (I'm posting from the public library.) I was a little preoccupied over something that happened at work that I didn't handle well but hope is fixed. And the lot is pretty dark.

So I absently walked up to a little car and was pulling out my keys when I realized the car was silver, but it wasn't Silver. I glanced down the row and didn't see her. Perhaps understandably, I nearly had a myocardial infarction on the spot.

Turns out there was an unfamiliar black truck parked in the space between me and her, and since (a) I wasn't expecting the truck, and (b) it was dark and so was the lot, I just didn't register its presence for a second. Silver was right where she was supposed to be, and after performing CPR on myself, I am fine.

But for a second there I sure wasn't...