I was driving to my pharmacy to pick up my prescription (went without a hitch, not the point of the story) and saw a man curled up in the road and a teal car about 2 feet from him. I am filling in the blanks that the teal car hit the man, although I don’t know that. When I came to the scene that I did not witness there were no emergency responders there yet. Traffic was starting to back up in the lane where the teal car and man on the ground were. Nothing for me to do except move along little lady since I didn’t witness it so I went to McDonald’s for a Coke then CVS for my prescription. After talking to the pharmacist about my insurance information I left the store for a few minutes while she put together my order. While I was out there the traffic situation had gone from bad to worse and people were laying on their horns. I don’t mean “beep beep,” I mean New Yorker “HOOOOOOOOOO-notgettingoffthishornuntilyougetthefuckouttamyway-OOOOOOOOOOOOONK”. And I really wanted to run up to those people with my “don’t fuck with Poppy” face and curse them out for laying on their horn. But. Really, what good is that gonna do? Then they’d just start yelling at me about who did I think I was telling them what to do and get the fuck out of their way and some other choice words that might possibly make me open their doors and kick them in the face with my favorite running shoes. I mean, really, I could have done that. But I just sat in my car and spaced out and drank my soda and thought about how happy I was not to be that guy on the ground and maybe I should take a different way home than the way that I came.
Poppy Cedes
You do a lot of driving for a New Yorker!
I, too, am glad you aren’t that guy on the side of the road!!!
Sybil, when I need to go quick places that aren’t within walking distance I take my vehicle. When I’m going to Manhattan I take the subway. I dunno, if I lived in Manhattan I’d ditch the car, but in Queens it’s much more convenient to have a vehicle. I could have had my prescription filled someplace within walking distance, but I am an introvert and I go where I feel comfortable, and that happens to be the CVS next to where Dawg does vollies. :smiles: Also, that guy? He was in the road, in the middle of the other lane.
Was he dead? Was he still in the road when you passed by later? What happened? Can you find out for me? :geek:
Huh. Are you sure that help was on the way ?
Finn, he was not dead. I went the same way home and everything was cleared up.
Creature, when I was coming out of the pharmacy a New York Fire Department chief vehicle was coming to the scene but apparently the majority of honkers did not observe that moment in time.
(I went to pick up the laundry after the pharmacy so in the time it took me to do that the scene was cleared.)
I was wondering if anyone made sure 911 was called, but I see now that’s been answered.
Moving on………
I get what you mean, poppy. Sometimes it’s best to just move along. Other times it’s a good idea to stop. Only you know when that time is, depending on the circumstances.
As a side note, it’s moments like that which sometimes make you appreciate your own chaotic life and make you realize that no matter how shitty your own situation might be at the time, life goes on. So get your head out of your ass and keep on moving. LOL
Not that I think YOU have a shitty life, I’m just sayin’ in general. I remember during a really BAD part of my life when I had my head up my ass thinking the world owed me a better life and wah wah wah this and boohoo hoo that, I drove by an accident that had just happened. I looked over and there was this pregnant lady in the drivers seat of a van and she was screaming. The way I was in traffic I couldn’t stop (far right lane… accident was on the far left lane)
Anyways, I remember thinking, I just witnessed something tragic. This ladies life as she knows it has ended. (a car accident like that changes you forever) And yet, I still have to go to work. No fair.
Damn.
Missed one.
I wish New Yorkers weren’t so horny.
Perspective!
It’s a wonderful thing, though sometimes it gets the ‘there are children who in Ethiopia who would blah blah’ treatment and I tune out. I mean, aren’t we the center of the known universe?? shouldn’t be be all about us?
Then you actually ‘see’ and experience something that snaps you out of it.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always struggled with the ‘how much should I do’ when you see accidents or people who need help, or someone needs to take in the foster kitty or….I don’t know, a million things. My natural inclination is to help everything, but then what about the impact to yourself?
Hmmm. This post didn’t go where I expected it to. gah!
On a lighter note – at least you got a coke
Tug, I left out a lot of details, I was feeling kind of… storytelly when I wrote it and sometimes it makes a better story to leave out important details such as they guy in the teal car was outside his car leaning over the guy in the road, on his cell phone. And that when I came back out of the pharmacy to wait for my order the traffic was already being controlled, but the line was just so far backed up that the cars near where I was couldn’t see what the hold-up was, and most of the people honking their horns were honking because they stupidly drove into intersections and blocked them off and were honking to make other people move so they weren’t blocking the intersections anymore.
Twinkie, it makes me very glad that I am choosing to pay COBRA insurance in between jobs, because you really never know when you’re going to need it. :smiles:
Dawg, you missed a pedestrian? Or a vollies call? Or an accident scene to photograph?
Wah, we’re so horny we get “fine”d for it!
NAT, we come from the same background, where we always stop to help everyone because not that many people are in distress and response time is slooooow. Here there is a process for everything, it’s all carefully planned out how situations are handled, and me stopping my little car at that intersection to help someone who had others helping him would have blocked off the only access to that street and the street perpendicular. In that situation I didn’t see blood and I saw someone else handling it so I knew it was better for me to move on. If it was a cat or a dog, though… I would have gotten out and helped it. :smiles:
You were right to move on and I would have done the same thing :grins:
Poppy… you are the most human human being I have ever met. I love you for this.
Cobra insurance ? Does that involve GI Joe ?
Cobra Insurance – Because you never know when those serpent-themed terrorists strike against true Americans
:laughs: :laughs: :laughs: @ Creature
That’s fucking priceless!!!
I love your random run on sentences
I also am glad you weren’t the man in the street
because I like you upright
OMG.. they ARE runonsentences, aren’t they? I thought I was just reading really REALLY fast.
No, really. I did. Because I was reading like I talk. which is runnoff-ish-ly-fast.
Yeah, I know, I know… :loser: right? LOL
I didn’t notice the run on sentences, probably because I am a run on sentence violator myself. I love the way you write in stream of consciousness, though, run on or not.
Turn, thank you for validating me. :grins:
Sharon, I appreciate that you understand this is one of the points of the post… not all good, not all bad; human.
Creature, yes, that is EXACTLY what COBRA insurance is. I’m uber paranoid.
Sparky, “I like you upright” made me giggle. I like me upright too!
Twinkie, I think in runonish. It’s a Poppy created language.
Jen, thank you for loving my quirk.