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Titan · 03-12-2003, 03:28 PM

Well, on my way to Smith dormatory to go print my paper for my class I need to go to in about 10 minutes here, I witnessed a car wreck not 20 feet in front of me. Some girl was obviously not thinking and accidently ran a stop sign and slammed into another girl's car, nose to nose, at an angle, due to a minor attempt at a swerve given the very small amount of reaction time that was available.

The two girls in the fautly car were alright, and the girl who was driving in the victim car was fine. The victim girl was concerned about her boyfriend however, yet, spared time to (whilst walking around the car to open the passenger door) curse the other girl loudly because "it was a fucking stop sign". Frankly, if it were me, I think I would have spent less time going psycho, and more time being concerned about my mate.

Regardless, it turned out that the victim girl's boyfriend had hit his head on the windshield and cracked it real bad (the windshield). He was all groggy like and probably won't have anything worse than a concussion or something... he wasn't out cold or anything. So yeah, there I am with these four and this other guy who worked for IU's maintanance department. I'm waiting for someone to get there damn phone out and call 911 so I can feel better about the whole deal knowing everyone's taken care of, and go about my business. It took me a bit to realize that throughout the repeated "Are you alright"s, no one was remembering that they needed to call for a freaking ambulance. So, being the level-headed passer-by that I am, I asked if anyone had a phone. Yeah, three of them did. Shew, that was close.

So that whole thing was taken care of, and no more seconds of Mr. Groggy-head's life were wasted bleeding on the nice apoulstry thanks to me, the passer-by who remembers that 911 is usually a good idea. All in all, everybody was good and relatively safe. It just makes me mad that I couldn't have been there maybe a few seconds prior, if I was up a little further I could have seen what was going to happen and tried to warn someone, possibly preventing some of the damage, or all. But oh well, as long as somebody learned something, it was not completely in vain.

Tip: use paragraphs when telling a long story.

[This message has been edited by Titan (edited March 12, 2003).]

Combat Chuck · 03-13-2003, 07:45 PM

Well Titan, at least you weren't too far ahead and didn't become a pedestrian victim of some ditzy girl's obvious stupidity. Shew indeed.

03-12-2003, 03:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Titan Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,698 Internets: 10	Well, on my way to Smith dormatory to go print my paper for my class I need to go to in about 10 minutes here, I witnessed a car wreck not 20 feet in front of me. Some girl was obviously not thinking and accidently ran a stop sign and slammed into another girl's car, nose to nose, at an angle, due to a minor attempt at a swerve given the very small amount of reaction time that was available. The two girls in the fautly car were alright, and the girl who was driving in the victim car was fine. The victim girl was concerned about her boyfriend however, yet, spared time to (whilst walking around the car to open the passenger door) curse the other girl loudly because "it was a fucking stop sign". Frankly, if it were me, I think I would have spent less time going psycho, and more time being concerned about my mate. Regardless, it turned out that the victim girl's boyfriend had hit his head on the windshield and cracked it real bad (the windshield). He was all groggy like and probably won't have anything worse than a concussion or something... he wasn't out cold or anything. So yeah, there I am with these four and this other guy who worked for IU's maintanance department. I'm waiting for someone to get there damn phone out and call 911 so I can feel better about the whole deal knowing everyone's taken care of, and go about my business. It took me a bit to realize that throughout the repeated "Are you alright"s, no one was remembering that they needed to call for a freaking ambulance. So, being the level-headed passer-by that I am, I asked if anyone had a phone. Yeah, three of them did. Shew, that was close. So that whole thing was taken care of, and no more seconds of Mr. Groggy-head's life were wasted bleeding on the nice apoulstry thanks to me, the passer-by who remembers that 911 is usually a good idea. All in all, everybody was good and relatively safe. It just makes me mad that I couldn't have been there maybe a few seconds prior, if I was up a little further I could have seen what was going to happen and tried to warn someone, possibly preventing some of the damage, or all. But oh well, as long as somebody learned something, it was not completely in vain. Tip: use paragraphs when telling a long story. [This message has been edited by Titan (edited March 12, 2003).]

03-13-2003, 07:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
Combat Chuck Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2,063 Internets: 10	Well Titan, at least you weren't too far ahead and didn't become a pedestrian victim of some ditzy girl's obvious stupidity. Shew indeed.