21. Driver’s Education
Drivers Ed I hit someone who ran a red light. I was going about 30 and they were going 45 and I hit the front end of their car and they went offroad into a metal light pole hard enough to bend it and knock it over.
There was a teacher and other students in the car. Being 15 it was weird because I expected there to be more talk around someone’s death. Didn’t even make the news. Obituary was in the paper but that was about it. When I was driving I did notice the guy but I was always paranoid about people but just thought he will probably stop but I sort of had a gut feeling he wasn’t going to.
Fucked me up for a bit driving and still super paranoid about other drivers. All that happened was they asked me if I wanted to talk to the counselor and I was like nah. Then we went to hospital to get looked over and I got the rest of the day off school excused. Then I went to school that Monday expecting to go to school all day but a classmate was like “I’d act traumatized to stay home. So I milked it for a bit and acted like it affected me more than it did so I could stay home from school excused but they caught on after the following 2 days of that and said I needed to come back.
I suppose it is supposed to make me feel bad for killing him but it really doesn’t cross my mind. That light was green for over 5 seconds before I even got up to it. I don’t know why he ran it but feel he was at fault so don’t really think about it.
Now if it happened now I would probably feel guilty as hell by looking up relatives on Facebook and seeing who he was but this was 1999 all I knew what the paper said and they didn’t even put a pic of him in there. I didn’t even see the dude in the accident. They came and took us away before they got him out and we sat in the car the whole time.
22. A BBQ Kills A Guest
Undercooked food at a barbecue. Woman got food poisoning, complications arose because of pre-existing conditions, she got septic and died. She had just recently had a baby, so that was left without a mother. Go me, double bubble with that fuck up.
So don’t cook while drunk kids, because you might kill someone.
