Tragedy sometimes has us ponder strange things. First, a few stories...
Story 1:
This past weekend, my oldest daughter got into a bad car accident on the way to the beach in North Carolina. She suffered some pretty bad injuries, but nothing life-altering physically. Both wrists broke, sternum cracked, a few staples in her scalp, cuts, bruises, blood, etc... She will recover ok. Her boyfriend was in the car with her. He got 24 staples in his head, a laceration in his eye, and some cuts and bruises. Both had concussions. The driver of the truck she hit lost his spleen, has a few cracked ribs, and both legs from the knee down were shattered. He had to have a few surgeries to fix the damage...
Story 2:
I went to McDonald's drive through today and ordered a double quarter pounder meal with a diet Dr. Pepper. The girl taking my order must not have realized her mic was still on and she kind of snickered at me for getting a diet drink with a large sandwich...
Now, on to the reason for the thread... there was a news article online about my daughter's crash. Some smartass made a stupid comment about "that doesn't seem like an area where a stop sign would sneak up on someone"... ... what Mr. smartass didn't realize before he shot off his mouth was that intersection is notorious for accidents according to the woman and man who live in the yard her car ended up in. There is no sign warning of a stop sign ahead, despite several residents complaining to the county to put one up at that dangerous intersection. The crossing road is hidden by the tree line to the right and the building and tree line on the left. There is also a tree about 100 yards before the sign that reduces the ability to see the stop sign on a clear day. It was also pouring down rain and they were not from the area.
On to my lunch... what Ms. inconsiderate didn't get was that I take the meat and cheese off the sandwich and just eat that because my diabetes doesn't respond well to breads. The fries were for my daughter, the one who had the accident, because she can tolerate them on her nauseous stomach from the pain meds. The diet drink is because I have diabetes.
Why must we humans take great pains to pre-determine in our minds the reasons behind others' actions without considering that just MAYBE that is someone's little girl who got lost, stuck in a hard driving rainstorm on a road that had nowhere to turn off and ran across the worst intersection in that county... or maybe the guy ordering the large sandwich just wants to eat the protein out of it because he has a medical condition and isn't simply a hog?
Story 1:
This past weekend, my oldest daughter got into a bad car accident on the way to the beach in North Carolina. She suffered some pretty bad injuries, but nothing life-altering physically. Both wrists broke, sternum cracked, a few staples in her scalp, cuts, bruises, blood, etc... She will recover ok. Her boyfriend was in the car with her. He got 24 staples in his head, a laceration in his eye, and some cuts and bruises. Both had concussions. The driver of the truck she hit lost his spleen, has a few cracked ribs, and both legs from the knee down were shattered. He had to have a few surgeries to fix the damage...
Story 2:
I went to McDonald's drive through today and ordered a double quarter pounder meal with a diet Dr. Pepper. The girl taking my order must not have realized her mic was still on and she kind of snickered at me for getting a diet drink with a large sandwich...
Now, on to the reason for the thread... there was a news article online about my daughter's crash. Some smartass made a stupid comment about "that doesn't seem like an area where a stop sign would sneak up on someone"... ... what Mr. smartass didn't realize before he shot off his mouth was that intersection is notorious for accidents according to the woman and man who live in the yard her car ended up in. There is no sign warning of a stop sign ahead, despite several residents complaining to the county to put one up at that dangerous intersection. The crossing road is hidden by the tree line to the right and the building and tree line on the left. There is also a tree about 100 yards before the sign that reduces the ability to see the stop sign on a clear day. It was also pouring down rain and they were not from the area.
On to my lunch... what Ms. inconsiderate didn't get was that I take the meat and cheese off the sandwich and just eat that because my diabetes doesn't respond well to breads. The fries were for my daughter, the one who had the accident, because she can tolerate them on her nauseous stomach from the pain meds. The diet drink is because I have diabetes.
Why must we humans take great pains to pre-determine in our minds the reasons behind others' actions without considering that just MAYBE that is someone's little girl who got lost, stuck in a hard driving rainstorm on a road that had nowhere to turn off and ran across the worst intersection in that county... or maybe the guy ordering the large sandwich just wants to eat the protein out of it because he has a medical condition and isn't simply a hog?
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