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zdashamberIf I ever die in an accident, rest assured that my last moments will consist of me hissing "shit!" and steering skillfully to avoid it....
Last night on the way home at 2:45 AM in the dark in the rain on an unlit highway in the second lane from the left, suddenly I came across a car without lights, dead in the fast lane and skewed into mine, completely invisible until about 25' away. After aformentioned "shit!" and dodge, I drove on for a bit, thinking about how someone driving in the left lane would probably not have had a chance to not plow into the thing... Then it occured to me that I had a cell phone and I could maybe do something to save them.
Alarming in a different way was that it took me 3 tries to not get a busy signal at 911, and when I did, I was on hold for 5 minutes...
Later, I was thinking about whether I should've looped back and stopped in the left lane with flashers and lights shining on the dead car to warn others away. I guess that's where my sense of self-preservation trumps my desire to save my fellow humans.
So I woke up this morning at 10 to move my car from the 2-hour parking zone, and trudged back to my house and went to bed again until 2:30, when I got up and made myself perhaps the best breakfast of this year.
I grated a potato and dumped it on some hot olive oil in a frying pan, added salt and pepper, stirred it around... After a bit, as the potato bits picked up some blackness, I realized, hmm, I've reinvented hash browns. Set them aside on a plate, chopped 3 stalks of celery fine, fried those with salt and olive oil. They smelled, in cooking, sort of like apples, and it occured to me that I had a couple green apples in the fridge. So I chopped a green apple into 1/8th inch wide slices, removed the celery, and dumped the apple into the pan. Started some hot water boiling, cleaned up the celery that had gone onto the floor, removed the apples as they achieved floppiness, and then fried up 2 eggs scrambled, and made myself coffee with a big dollop of swetened condensed milk.
Ohmygodsogood. Mmmmmmmmm. Life. Beautiful.
Last night on the way home at 2:45 AM in the dark in the rain on an unlit highway in the second lane from the left, suddenly I came across a car without lights, dead in the fast lane and skewed into mine, completely invisible until about 25' away. After aformentioned "shit!" and dodge, I drove on for a bit, thinking about how someone driving in the left lane would probably not have had a chance to not plow into the thing... Then it occured to me that I had a cell phone and I could maybe do something to save them.
Alarming in a different way was that it took me 3 tries to not get a busy signal at 911, and when I did, I was on hold for 5 minutes...
Later, I was thinking about whether I should've looped back and stopped in the left lane with flashers and lights shining on the dead car to warn others away. I guess that's where my sense of self-preservation trumps my desire to save my fellow humans.
So I woke up this morning at 10 to move my car from the 2-hour parking zone, and trudged back to my house and went to bed again until 2:30, when I got up and made myself perhaps the best breakfast of this year.
I grated a potato and dumped it on some hot olive oil in a frying pan, added salt and pepper, stirred it around... After a bit, as the potato bits picked up some blackness, I realized, hmm, I've reinvented hash browns. Set them aside on a plate, chopped 3 stalks of celery fine, fried those with salt and olive oil. They smelled, in cooking, sort of like apples, and it occured to me that I had a couple green apples in the fridge. So I chopped a green apple into 1/8th inch wide slices, removed the celery, and dumped the apple into the pan. Started some hot water boiling, cleaned up the celery that had gone onto the floor, removed the apples as they achieved floppiness, and then fried up 2 eggs scrambled, and made myself coffee with a big dollop of swetened condensed milk.
Ohmygodsogood. Mmmmmmmmm. Life. Beautiful.