Comments | thebitterguy: How I almost died

thebitterguy

How I almost died

Jan 21, 2004 23:47

Hmm. Oddly enough, every other major life event (well, really OLD one) has been hashed to bits in this little memorandum of mediocrity, but not my sole brush with the world beyond.

Well, it wasn't so much a brush with the beyond as a brush with a light standard.

But let me start... From the Beginning.

( Kingston in 1994 was a hellhole. )

anecdote, driving, napanee, family, winter

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thebitterguy January 22 2004, 06:32:59 UTC

You'd be surprised at the slack I can cut someone who's up at 4:30.

I know you meant it with love.

But now, I get to pick a song for you on Saturday.

Because we love the B5 thebitterguy January 22 2004, 06:54:56 UTC

"And that's when I shot him, your honour."

The amusing bit is, since you have a science background, I get to be Marcus, and you get to be Dr. Franklin.

Which means... I have a fighting pike, and you get sweaty play.

Dammit. I wanna be the doctor.

pyat January 22 2004, 05:42:05 UTC

Huzzah!!

anidada January 22 2004, 05:46:03 UTC

Wow. That sure puts the whole shaving incident in perspective, doesn't it? Funny that you should post this now, as outside the snow is really coming down and people are sliding all over the place... Thanks for posting this.

thebitterguy January 22 2004, 07:01:07 UTC

Actually, the date was because it's been exactly a decade (well, discounting odd leap year silliness) since that fortuitous night. 10 year anniversaries treat me funny.

rentagurkha January 22 2004, 06:40:00 UTC

Eep. You're lucky the results weren't a lot worse.

Road snow can be weird though. On the way back from Hamilton last night I saw a car so something very similar to what you describe, although in somewhat less dramatic fashion. The car just ended up ramming the concrete divider on the 403 and then drove away. It was unnerving mostly because I had driven over the same patch of snow without any problems.

thebitterguy January 22 2004, 07:03:23 UTC

Eep. You're lucky the results weren't a lot worse.

The insurance guy pretty much said I should be dead. Which is amusing in its own way.

rentagurkha January 22 2004, 11:09:27 UTC

Huh. Was he expressing a wish or just a guess as to the most likely outcome?

In either case, had you died I would now not own a lovely pair of ceramic elephants.

And I didn't know there was Karaoke in Ganaoque. Of course I haven't seen anything more in Ganaoque than the inside of a motel room.

rockgoddes January 22 2004, 08:57:55 UTC

Weirdest thing? Reading along I could picture just about every place you mentioned, and I know exactly on the 401 where you got banged up.

Yikes.