the benefits of boredom

by lizard at 11:32 PM on August 15, 2001

I've been wondering where everyone is myself. Well, my life has been delightfully uneventful, so all I have to offer is the local story that has me so pleased about my boring existence:

Yesterday, there was a horrible accident on the 101 Freeway near where I live. A road maintenance truck with three propane tanks, unattended on a closed offramp, slipped out of gear and rolled across three lanes of traffic. A semi truck, driven by a husband and wife over-the-road team, struck the maintenance truck, which exploded on impact. The husband was thrown out of the sleeping compartment; he and his wife scrambled out of the truck and hot-footed it away (literally - there wasn't time to put shoes on) as their livelihood went up in flames thirty feet high. A pickup struck the truck, and its driver also escaped major injury, though for some reason he had all his suits in the truck, and he lost those (either that or he wanted his insurance company to think that's what he had in there - damn, am I cynical or what?). Aside from these traumatic losses, though, they all felt pretty lucky.

My boyfriend picked the couple up in his taxi, and took them to Target to get some clothes, then dropped them off at a hotel. He came home and told me about all this, including how amazing it was that there were no major injuries in such a terrible accident, and I clicked over here and told him he was wrong, someone was dead. He said, no, there were two simultaneous accidents on different freeways, I'm sure they just got the stories crossed. And that is indeed what he and the truckers believed had happened. However, as the debris was cleared, a compact car containing a charred body was found under the truck's trailer. So the lady trucker found out she'd killed someone on the news.

The story seems to have lost something in the telling, now that I've written it down here, but it's all I've got and for some reason it bothers me to see Bad Samaritan with only one post in four days. Maybe my life will get more interesting tomorrow. I just hope it doesn't get *too* interesting.