weeeeoooo
I live next to a fire department. I leave my windows open at night. I have gotten good at blocking out sirens and other annoying stimuli. The stimuli in question would be drunken twentysomethings yelling incoherently at various hours of the morning during a completely random night of the week. Every once in a while they do break through and wake me up and that angers me enough that I ...zzz. My old roomates used to be thoroughly amazed at how I could come home at any hour with any level of excitement and just turn myself off at a moments notice and then proceed to sleep through anything. My parents got upset with me one time because I slept through a tornado that literally swept through the front yard of the cottage we were staying in. Well, my mom was upset, I remember waking up to my dad saying "let him sleep, nothings seriously wrong, it's over."
So this morning I realized that I am much more likely to be run over by an ambulance with its siren on than be hit by lightning. I say this because this morning...I was almost run over by an ambulance. To be fair though it did sneak up from behind some box vans and trucks. I was half asleep and thinking about drunken people yelling incoherently last night. I was well past the halfway mark in the street when the sirens that had been there all along poked through to my concious mind. It was like an iceberg surfacing. There was this moment when a reality field took form to my right as a vehicle speeding toward me and then the full realization of the volume of the sirens grabbed ahold and I felt like an ass for walking so slowly in front of an oncoming ambulance. I bolted the rest of the way and a split second later the ambulance horn sounded. I was quite out of the way when he hit it and I felt like saying "no need to be an ass about it...you try living next to a fire department!"
In a twisted way it's probably the best way to get hit by a vehicle...I mean...the rescue crew is right there!
-V
So this morning I realized that I am much more likely to be run over by an ambulance with its siren on than be hit by lightning. I say this because this morning...I was almost run over by an ambulance. To be fair though it did sneak up from behind some box vans and trucks. I was half asleep and thinking about drunken people yelling incoherently last night. I was well past the halfway mark in the street when the sirens that had been there all along poked through to my concious mind. It was like an iceberg surfacing. There was this moment when a reality field took form to my right as a vehicle speeding toward me and then the full realization of the volume of the sirens grabbed ahold and I felt like an ass for walking so slowly in front of an oncoming ambulance. I bolted the rest of the way and a split second later the ambulance horn sounded. I was quite out of the way when he hit it and I felt like saying "no need to be an ass about it...you try living next to a fire department!"
In a twisted way it's probably the best way to get hit by a vehicle...I mean...the rescue crew is right there!
-V