19. “You could see clear through his head.”
I used to live next to a graveyard that would have open caskets all the time, so I saw quite a few, I also had to go to my uncle’s funeral when I was young, it was open casket, he shot himself… You could see clear through his head.
20. “Her 200-pound dog jumped on her and her eye popped out.”
I worked for a real estate company, I would go in the houses for sale, take pictures, draw a floor plan of the house, write a description, etc. I had my real estate license, so I had one of those lockbox keys to get into people’s houses if they weren’t home. I go into a house one day, walk around yelling “hello” as always, there’s a woman in the last bedroom I check not answering me. “Maybe she’s just asleep I thought”, but then her 200-pound dog jumped on her and her eye popped out. Called 911, she was dead.
21. “The interior of the car had a fair amount of smoke just kind of drifting around and his eyes were wide open.”
I was walking around a bad neighborhood at 2 or 3 am. This was in Dorchester, if you’re familiar with the Boston area. An area that’s predominately poor and black if you’re not familiar. My friend and I hear country music blasting from this SUV so we walk over to check it out and see a young black man slumped over the steering wheel with his eyes open. The interior of the car had a fair amount of smoke just kind of drifting around and his eyes were wide open. I stared at him for a good several minutes just to confirm that yes, he wasn’t breathing and he wasn’t blinking. We stood there in silence for a few moments and just silently thought about what to do. Ultimately we decided that it was 3 am and we were really high and we didn’t feel like dealing with the situation at that hour so we just went home. Besides, we felt that it would be really inconsiderate to wake up that family with bad news at this hour of the night.
The thing that sticks with me was how he was blasting country music. I never heard another style of music besides rap or hip-hop while I lived there and here a guy decided to OD while blasting country music. It’s always vaguely intrigued me.
