Cathie's Mysterious Foot Injury

Cathie hurt her foot today and we're not sure how.... Well, ok, we know how, but not HOW. On our way to church this morning we loaded up the van and started backing out of the driveway. When we got to the bottom of the driveway, I heard a crunching-noise and Cathie started screaming at the top of our lungs. By screaming, I don't mean anything informative about WHY she was screaming or what was causing it. By screaming, I DO mean that she screamed as if she was being decapitated slowly, but decapitated in such a way that her vocal cords were still in tact. I stopped the car and tried to figure out what was going on. Cathie's foot was wrapped around a piece of rope and badly bruised and hurt. The fender in front of the passenger-side car door was bent from the rope. We're not really sure how.

Here's what I propose happened: Getting into the car this morning, Cathie dragged her foot on a piece of rope and pulled part of it into the car, with her foot caught in the loop of rope, with two pieces of the rope hanging out of the car. At some point when I backed out, the rope caught under the tire and pulled itself back, tightening the loop around Cathie's foot, causing lots of pain and doing damage to the car. Cathie's foot will heal for free. The car will cost money to repair. I love Cathie more than the car, though. Even if she's a little clumsy.