The Asheville "Almost Emergency"

Rob pinned to RV as Karen goes for Help... Almost forgot our Asheville departure excitement. We were up unhooking a little early to try to get on the road before the kids woke up. We were bringing in the awning, which is not an electric one on our model. We forgot to hold the cloth string handle, and as the awning quickly rolled up towards the RV, Rob decided to try to stop it so it wouldn't slam into the RV and wake up the kids. Unfortunately, with his fingers wrapped around the brace that would in about 0.4 seconds slam into the RV, HE FAILED!!! We were both calm, although I was in quite a bit of pain. Karen tried everything to pull back the awning, but we were both forgetting one small step of releasing a particular latch. Just as I was about to tell her to get a claw hammer and break the awning brace to release me, we saw a neighbor and I told Karen to go ask him for help. Fortunately an experienced RVer, he recognized our missing step and was able to pull it back. I was very blessed to have no serious injury, only some pain, soreness, and minor swelling. After a bit of ice, we were on our way. I won't be putting my hand between our RV and the awning again any time soon.