Drive time, interrupted

May 08, 2006 23:46

I was clipping down University this afternoon, a million thoughts on my mind. I had been hammering away at my (late) term paper all afternoon, and I had five hours to go home and finish the job ( Read more... )

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mel76 May 10 2006, 05:31:03 UTC
Thanks for the nice words.

To be honest, I struggled with whether to get out of my car when I pulled over. I had a term paper due by midnight. And not a lot of time to finish it. When you think about it, the fact that this crossed my mind for even a second while somebody was laying in the middle of the road makes me kind of an egocentric jerk.

It's just... the guy was bleeding. And most other people seemed to be rubbernecking, but not moving to help. (It's a very busy intersection, tons of traffic.) When I really began to process what I was seeing, I couldn't *not* get out.

I don't know that this means I rock. I think it means I'm human.

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