Ain't It Fun Livin' In The Real World?
Entry 1 4:00 p.m. I thought that the dog alarm clock wake up at 4:37 a.m. was going to be the nadir of my day. The Gods must be laughing. At just after 9 a.m. Leiney calls. She is on I-5, near Mt. Vernon, having just spun out and hit another car and then bouncing into the cable fence in the median. She stopped facing the wrong way. Despite going over 60 miles an hour, and slamming into another car, her airbags did not deploy. The good news is she wasn't injured, nor was the driver in the other car. I drove to Mt. Vernon, Jenny along for the ride. On the way, Jenny was on and off the phone with Leiney. Jenny and Leiney must have embraced for 10-15 minutes when we got to the Mt. Vernon SBUX, where the staties dropped her off. I learned that when the police arrived, they suggested she drive it the car to a collision repair place. She was in no shape to do that. Nor was the car. The tow-truck driver had arrived, and told t...