Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people
The other month or so, I narrowly missed a fantastic freeway pileup, but what really almost kills me is that as it happens, as the blue car ahead swings this way and that in reaction to other cars I cannot yet see, as I begin to apply brakes from a more than reasonable stopping distance (with respect to the rain) only to spy a behemoth of an SUV in the rearview (catching up), as I realise that not stopping would be bad, certainly, but there is such a thing as stopping too much that is even badder perhaps, as I decide if I want my bonnet in a stranger's boot or a stranger’s bonnet in my boot and weigh the financial and the medical and (at worst) the eternal ramifications of ramming or being rammed, boot or bonnet, bonnet or boot, while braking softer only to discover that the blue car is now spinning or being spun, winding in, winding out, clockwise, counter and I am now close enough to see the steering wheel in driver's furious hands fighting the four on the road, playing with physics, as I brake more, now close enough to take in how good a driver he must really be to end up smack in the middle of those stripes on the tarmac, inches from unforgiving cement and me, as I speed up, yes up, to escape the SUV, what really incenses me, the true bee in my bonnet, is that the last sound I would have heard on this earth was Fergie, yea, The Dutchess!
Not a score to die to.
What score would you?
3 comments:
I'd prefer mine to be something funny, probably mildly ironic. I'm thinking something like "I hope that I get hold Before I die" by They Might Be Giants, or "Blue Skies" by Iriving Berlin. I almost thought maybe "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, but that wouldn't be ironic, just tragic (having the Bee Gees be the last thing I hear).
The one Song I really wouldn't want to die to is "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC.
wow. Interesting story and question.
I think it would be right to Go Out driving, with some awesome driving song. But, otherwise, mayeb Roy Orbison's Life Fades Away. It has that 'I am dying' feeling to it!
Rock on!
Noooooodles... it has been far, far too long.
I'm never going to die. But, so long as it's not elton john or the spice-girls playing.. or perhaps the dixie chicks either... then I'll probably be ok with the soundtrack :P
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