Had myself a thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat

[zdashamber]

If 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.

Comments

[cochese.livejournal.com]

What on earth does a fried apple taste like?

And, can I just note that I find it kinda sexy that you can quote "Alice's Restaurant."

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

1. Sort of like a microwaved apple, which is sort of like a baked apple... ;) The thing about frying them, I found, is that it was easier to take them off when they were floppy (=cooked) but not thoroughly pasty. (And it wasn't really frying, since there was barely any oil...)

2. Quote it? I can darn near perform it... Well, except for the part about not being able to play the guitar. :D Alice's Restaurant was one of about 6 tapes I listened to for many years.

[cochese.livejournal.com]

Yeah... one of the few highlights of my childhood was my father introducing me to Alice's Restaurant. He had it on vinyl and I taped a copy of that and a few other albums. Like Carlin's "Class Clown" and the Beatles' "Sgt. Peppers." Nothing quite like playing games on the NES and listening to Alro Guthrie tell of the 27 8x10 color glossy photos with circles and arrows and...

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Yep, I taped it off my dad's vinyl record, too! Along with Peter Paul & Mary's Greatest Hits and Supertramp's "Breakfast in America".

[obadiah.livejournal.com]

All good choices.

[beingfrank.livejournal.com]

Is there a specific mobile emergency number in the US? Here we have 000 as our equivalent of 911, but ringing that on a mobile works just like a normal call. However, there's another number for use with mobiles, it gets priority over all other calls, any tower will take it regardless of what service you're with, and it works even if you have no credit on your phone. But it might have been a different issues with you having trouble getting through.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

There is no specific mobile phone emergency number here... I think there are some issues about locating the phone and routing the signal to the appropriate police department, which might have accounted for the busy signal. Or maybe it's just that you get a busy signal when dialing 911 these days. I don't know.