We had an interesting day today. One of the ladies in our homeschool group is
moving to another state, and we had an ice cream social at the co-op building to
say good-bye to her. I picked up my friend and her daughter to take them there,
and we got behind this white car with handicap plates and this elderly lady was
driving. She was swerving all over the place. First she'd swerve into the other
lane, and then she'd go nearly off the side of the road into the ditch. There
were a couple of times she nearly got hit swerving into oncoming traffic. All of
us were really starting to get scared for her and for everyone else on the road,
so I finally called 911 and gave them her license plate number and told them
where we were and what direction she was heading. The dispatcher said he'd send
someone out. We drove all the way to the city we had to pass through on the way
to co-op, and she was still driving like that, no sign of the police. I called
them again to tell them where she was now, and the dispatcher said he'd let them
know. When we came to stoplights, she'd stop right in the middle of the
intersection and the cars would have to go around her.
Finally after we
drove all the way through town, she turned off towards the hospital. I don't
know if maybe she had a heart attack or a stroke or something and decided to
drive herself to the hospital or what, but I'm glad she made it. I'm sure that's
where she was going, since that's pretty much all there is on that road. I never
did see any police. I hope next time she just calls an ambulance or at least
gets a friend or family member to take her into the hospital.
After the
ice cream social (which my ice cream was just about melted by the time we
finally got there and got in the building) I noticed that I had some missed
calls on my cell phone. It was Erick, so I called him back. He told me his
story, and his topped mine!
He had met with a friend of ours from church
(who incidentally is going to be interim pastoring the church we just resigned)
and they were meeting with the mayor and talking about skateboard equipment. The
church we are attending found that to do skateboard ministry on their lot would
raise their insurance rates $1500 a year, but the city has been wanting to put
in a skatepark for quite some time and has money set aside to do that. The mayor
is interested in working with us to get something set up there at the city park
for the skateboarders, and would also let us do ministry out there. So that's
definitely a possibility.
But anyway, as for the interesting part of
this whole thing, after they had met and were in the office talking about it,
his friend (who is a volunteer firefighter) received a page that there had been
a stabbing just across the street from the house of the friend that I had taken
to the ice cream social. A boy had been stabbed (I'm not sure by whom) and if I
heard him correctly it went under the eye socket and behind his cheek. I think
he said the boy was fifteen. They had to air lift him to another hospital--I
think it was in Indy. Erick was there the whole time as the helicopter came and
landed in the baseball field as you come into town. I told my friend about it,
and she thinks she knows who it was.
So it was an interesting day, to
say the least!
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