Nov 22, 2008 21:58
I post this because I seem to forget when I've told people this story or not, but basically, a friend of mine tried to fix me up with this girl he knew in Medina. I was really nervous about it, but I eventually called, and got her dad. He was really angry, which was confusing to me at first, except then I found out that she had died in a car accident the prior week. I didn't find out, because it was in Medina, and the local news where I lived did not report such things. So, once he realized I wasn't prank calling (and it is infuriating to contemplate that someone would even do something like that), I got put on the phone with her mom. She explained what had happened, and tried to console me, since she imagined that I was upset at having missed the funeral.
They were able to fix her body so they were able to have an open casket. You could hardly tell that she had been in an accident. So many people came out to the service, and she was really glad to know there were so many people that cared about her.
Really, I can't even imagine how terrible it must have been for her to go through all that again, talking to me. Literally, can't even start to imagine.
I want to learn more about what happened now, but... this happened before the internet, and I can't seem to find a damn thing about it. Especially since I didn't make any particular effort to remember the details of the event (in fact quite the opposite). I only that it was winter, and that there was a blue halogen lamp in front of me on my gray desk, and hey, a small candy dish too. Odd things stick out. This was something that I really did my best to forget.
Anyway, I tried to navigate my way out of the call as gracefully as I could manage (though, what the hell do you say in that situation, especially at 16), while experiencing the sort of dry prickly heat running through my body that usually comes along with getting caught doing something wrong.
So... I don't like calling people.