Posted by Ritch on April 3, 2002, at 23:52:05
In reply to support, posted by Krazy Kat on April 2, 2002, at 13:37:08
> jay:
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> i'm afraid i don't have much clear advice to offer, but i do offer consolation. i have felt this way before, and it did get better.
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> i'm sure that sounds like "blah, blah, blah" right now, though.
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> will think of you.
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> - kkjay kk,
I have been fired from three different jobs in my lifetime. I may be fixin' to lose my current one due to economic conditions (a lay-off this time). During the last recession I was in the middle of a major depression in the summer and was stuck with two major jobs to finish and stopped showing up at one regularly every day. The const. super started complaining about work not getting finished per their schedule and my boss told me to find something else to do. So, I was without any work (while I was depressed), and made some calls and got some contracts out of town, thought everything was going to work out OK. The day of the accident-there was a big thunderstorm that nailed me on the interstate and I had to pull over and it just *whited-out* and the wind nearly spun my truck around. I got to the job and finished up around 10pm and headed back home (about 170 miles). I was on a secondary divided highway and started to pass another truck in front of me near the top of a hill. I was right next to the guy I was passing and there was a blinding flash of light right in front of me. Before I could finish saying "Oh sh*t!", the vehicle hit me head-on doing about 70mph. I crawled through the bent door's broken glass and fell out in the grass on the median. The guy I was passing was running out to help me across the highway. The people that hit me were wasted drunk and weren't awake just yet-they hadn't realized they were driving in the wrong lanes of a divided highway. Noone got seriously injured, we hit just a little less than perfectly head-on which allowed our vehicles to swoop off different sides of the road at low-speed after impact without rolling. Afterwards in the ambulance I was smiling great big about the whole miracle of the thing. I wasn't pissed at the other driver-I still don't understand that one. Afterwards I made all of my educational plans that were going to get finished-and they did. It was a trippy transition, a dangerous one but a productive one in the end. Your poem about the headlights triggered these memories. Have great good luck with your future plans. Kick back and just observe it all. Weird, I remember just a couple of weeks after my wreck the invasion of Kuwait and then the Chernobyl thing happened. A spacey time for TV viewing in cast and crutches.
Mitch
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