Night Craziness

While darling husband and I like to delude ourselves into believing that we experience lives full of non-stop adventure, the truth is that we spend a great deal of time at home pretending we are vegetables.

Last night began as a vegetable night. At 11:30pm I was upstairs brushing my teeth and darling husband was falling asleep on the floor in our living room. A very loud thump outside our window lured my husband out of the house and me down the stairs. The same thump lured a good number of our neighbors out of their homes as well.

Across and down the street, halfway into a yard sat a car, the remains of a truck and a stack of kindling that was once a fence. A presumably drunk driver (innocent until proved guilty in spite of the open container on the passenger seat) was lying face down in a deployed airbag. Her puppy, set loose when a neighbor opened the driver-side door, was running in the street.

The only thing that prevented her from hitting the house was that the truck was in the way. She careened into the truck, hit the fence and stopped halfway into the neighbor's yard. She never once used her brakes.

Several people called 911 immediately upon hearing the initial impact. Most of us were waiting out in the street for the ambulance to come.

Except that three tow trucks, a fire truck and a city police officer made it to the accident scene well before the first ambulance arrived. The firemen got lost on the way to our street, even though the station is a mile and a half away, and the directions were make a right onto street A, take it out to the end and turn left onto street B.

My neighbor, her daughter and I walked to the top of the street to flag drivers to turn around. Driver 1 came to a complete stop, ignored our attempts to talk to him, and nearly drove into the accident scene. Driver 2 ran the stop sign at high speed, tore around the corner and came to a sudden halt only when he saw the police car. Driver 2 was very drunk.

Eventually, the woman was removed from the car, a Breathalyzer was administered and she was taken to the hospital and hopefully jail. I headed back inside to a night of revenge dreams.

The puppy, as far as I know, is still loose.