Just my luck....
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:48 pm
This is an amazing storm-sewer event.......and I have to admit, since I have the luck of the damned, I would be the poor guy driving the pickup. Wrong place at the wrong time. Check out the size of that hole cover...good LORD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfZdfeJ1nc
And notice how NOBODY actually stops to check on the truck or its driver. Amazing.
I saw a woman spin out in the rain on the interstate a while back, slammed her car head-on into the concrete barrier that separates the two sides of the interstate. Serious accident. Major damage. There were like ten other drivers who also saw it happen, and I know they saw it because they all hit their brakes when she lost control in front of them. Yet, NOT ONE OF THEM STOPPED. I was the only person who bothered to stop. It was raining, it was cold, it was dark, it was too inconvenient for them to give a rats-ass about the well being of another human. But I stopped, and I stood on the side of the interstate with her, in the rain. Calming her down and being a presence until her daughter arrived. Was going to offer the warmth and dryness of my own car to her, but figured that might scare her. So I didn't.
But I stayed with her. Almost an hour.
Still just makes me mad as hell when I think about it. Not one of them stopped. Not one. Simply amazing. It's crap like that which gives me little to no hope for the future of the human race.
Sorry...didn't mean to go off on a rip there....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfZdfeJ1nc
And notice how NOBODY actually stops to check on the truck or its driver. Amazing.
I saw a woman spin out in the rain on the interstate a while back, slammed her car head-on into the concrete barrier that separates the two sides of the interstate. Serious accident. Major damage. There were like ten other drivers who also saw it happen, and I know they saw it because they all hit their brakes when she lost control in front of them. Yet, NOT ONE OF THEM STOPPED. I was the only person who bothered to stop. It was raining, it was cold, it was dark, it was too inconvenient for them to give a rats-ass about the well being of another human. But I stopped, and I stood on the side of the interstate with her, in the rain. Calming her down and being a presence until her daughter arrived. Was going to offer the warmth and dryness of my own car to her, but figured that might scare her. So I didn't.
But I stayed with her. Almost an hour.
Still just makes me mad as hell when I think about it. Not one of them stopped. Not one. Simply amazing. It's crap like that which gives me little to no hope for the future of the human race.
Sorry...didn't mean to go off on a rip there....