Hit and Run equals No Fun

We had a beautiful day planned out. Jackie and I were headed to the beach for a good long run, Bible and journal time, and studying on the beach... so great. Well, those plans lasted about 15 minutes. We were headed westbound on Wilshire Blvd. in bumper to bumper traffic (pretty typical in LA) when we noticed a car with squeaky breaks in the lane next to us. Two minutes later we were completely stopped and the same car with squeaky breaks rear ended us with a lot of force. Both Jackie and I lurched forward and I instantly felt a sore neck. Based on the impact and the sound we really thought there had to be some terrible damage. We started switching lanes to pull over and the guy initially started following us. I had a terrible suspicion about this guy and Jackie thought to take his liscense plate number... we contined the merge. The only place with enough room to pull over to the side was a little exit that led to the VA center so we took. The driver in the pick up behind us acted as if he would take it too... but then decided to merge back into traffic conveniently right after it was too late for us to merge. Therefore, Jackie and I had gotten off Wilshire and the other guy hadn't. Hit and Run. We contacted police, got all the information necessary, yadda yadda yadda. Luckily the damage was really minimal and no significant injuries. However, my neck was really bothering me so I mentioned it to the police officer who preceded to tell me it would be a felony (hit and run with injury... not good for our friend who hit us). After talking to lawyers and parents, we decided it was necessary to get checked out by a doctor. We were pretty shaken up and felt like we had just got the snot kicked out of us. SOOOO we went to the ER. 5 1/2 hours later we were told that we would in fact be even more sore two days later. No injuries except lots of pain. grrrrrrrrr. It's funny how one man's actions completely changed our day. Wow.
The only thing to ease the pain were my mom's homemade enchiladas that we had in our freezer, Jackie's cornbread, way too much ice cream, wedding invitation making, and Thirteen going on Thirty. So we used that remedy.