It's Raining Accidents

Car accidents happened 24/7. They happen during commutes to and from work, shopping, taking kids to school, going to the doctor, checking the PO Box.

Unlike the big cities where many commute via mass transit.... here where I live, and in most places, the car is an extension of the body. Most of us need a car to get somewhere.
It is vital to my job because I go to the injured who can't get out of their homes or hospital beds.
So I drive... ever drive.
Yesterday I logged 182 miles.
Tomorrow I head to a small mountain town... which will require a ferry crossing, a freeway trip north then up mountain road east to the base of the Cascades.... amid what is predicted to be a torrential downpour. The town I'm going to tomorrow is like a scene out of Deliverance. But that's another blog post, another time.

Today, I was stationary, writing up cases, answering calls from attorneys who refer their weekend injured my way.
A man I just spoke with told me he was calling from his living room. He was released from the hospital with a collapsed lung and a tube sticking out of his chest. He's supposed to call a doctor for a "follow" Monday, can barely speak and has no clue what to do.
He said yesterday, at 5:00 pm... he, and his passengers -- two sons, age 5 and 8 -- had right of way on a two lane road when a female driver, 23, allegedly on a cell phone, pulled out in front of them from a stop sign on their left. They couldn't stop in time. They T-Boned her. There were poilce, ambulances, ER's
And then phone call for me this morning and we were on the case by 11:00 am.

So I have to get moving now and because of the weather and the nature of this job, I never know when I get back. That's why I decided to borrow someone else's words and post the following now. I am hoping none of you have seen it yet. Maybe it has already circulated around the net and I am the last one to discover it.

I have no idea who wrote it. I can not find a copyright notice or author.
I received it from a friend in one of those email strings and promised myself it would find its way here.
I'm not sure if you will enjoy or dispute it.
I just couldn't resist posting it.

Sometimes I think men and women are from different planets. Othertimes I think we are a different species. Either way, its a wonder some of us manage to co-exist in peace.
This would illustrate said point.

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A MAN WHO KNOWS HIS MATH

He writes:

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female
driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing
the driver to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her.

This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his
arm out his window and gave the woman the finger.

'Man, that guy is stupid,' I thought to myself. I ALWAYS
smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female
does anything to me in traffic, and here's why:

I drive 48 miles each way every day to work.

That's 96 miles each day.

Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper

Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway.

There are 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles.

That works out to 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars.

Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper-to-bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars.

That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars that I
pass every day.

Statistically, females drive half of these.

That's 18,000 women drivers!

In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS.

That's 642.

According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as
dissatisfying or unrewarding.

That's 449.

According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all
females have seriously considered suicide or homicide.

That's 98.

And 34% describe men as their biggest problem.

That's 33.

According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of all
females carry weapons and this number is increasing.That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female who has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is ARMED.

Give her the finger?

I don't think so.