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The Wreck on the Highway
A week ago a most comely 24 year old uninsured waitress/student careened through a redlight and took out my Hyundai Tucscon.
She managed to knock out $5100 worth of damages on the most expensive, least vital front left area of fender, light, bumper, and engine hood.
She was lovely to talk with -- a shapely sight to appreciatively behold -- and kind enough to leave me uninjured.
Fortunately I have insurance for uninsured motorists.
No sweat -- when you consider the below, this "picture of life's other side."
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Easter Day in the Waffle House -- where I do much of my reporting -- there sits next to me a greying 51 year old man with his ten year old grandson.
"If I catch that damn woman on my block speeding again, I'll run her right off the road into a ditch," he says, his voice rising with anger.
"I've called the police chief...If he doesn't take care of her, I'll watch for her speeding and run her off the road."
My Waffle House neighbor repairs transmissions for a living.
His 30 year old daugher lives with him, with her ten year old son.
"Are you married?" I ask him.
"My wife has been death three years," he replies.
"It took her three months to die as a quadraplegic," he continues, with growing anger.
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"If I catch that damn woman on my block speeding again, I'll run her right off the road into a ditch," he says, his voice rising with anger.
"I've called the police chief...If he doesn't take care of her, I'll watch for her speeding and run her off the road."
My Waffle House neighbor repairs transmissions for a living.
His 30 year old daugher lives with him, with her ten year old son.
"Are you married?" I ask him.
"My wife has been death three years," he replies.
"It took her three months to die as a quadraplegic," he continues, with growing anger.
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"This is all I have -- my daughter and my grandson."
"A speeding car rammed my wife's car...Our grandson was riding in the car with her. She steered to dodge so she was hit instead of our grandson. She gave her life to save him."
"I don't want nothing to happen to that boy," he adds.
"If I catch that damn woman on my block speeding again, I'll run her right off the road into a ditch," he says once more -- his voice careening with anger.
"Sure I speed up to 75, sometimes more -- but I always look both ways. I know what I'm doing."
No, the speeder on his block is not the one who killed his wife.
Does it matter?
That's "a picture of life's other side."
"A speeding car rammed my wife's car...Our grandson was riding in the car with her. She steered to dodge so she was hit instead of our grandson. She gave her life to save him."
"I don't want nothing to happen to that boy," he adds.
"If I catch that damn woman on my block speeding again, I'll run her right off the road into a ditch," he says once more -- his voice careening with anger.
"Sure I speed up to 75, sometimes more -- but I always look both ways. I know what I'm doing."
No, the speeder on his block is not the one who killed his wife.
Does it matter?
That's "a picture of life's other side."
The Crash on the Highway
