I've had quite the evening. But I'm feeling tired and lazy, so instead of typing the whole thing out, I figured I'd just post the conversation I just had with
Mary about it. (with some minor editing)
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CanadaDave: I've had an interesting evening...
mary ann: oh??
CanadaDave: I was sitting and happily vegging in front of the TV when my phone rang
mary ann: k
CanadaDave: It was a number and area code that I didn't recognize, so I answered it.
mary ann: okay
CanadaDave: It was WereGirl. She'd been in some sort of accident on her way home from Toronto and wanted me to get hold of PilotBoy and tell him to meet her at her house.
CanadaDave: She hadn't been able to reach him
mary ann: oh no
CanadaDave: So, after a few phone calls and checking her house to see if he was there, he finally got back to me
CanadaDave: He was home in Michigan and was heading over as quickly as possible
mary ann: i guess so
CanadaDave: I talked to WereGirl again, and she said she'd meet me at my house since she was being being given a lift by a nice man driving a semi.
CanadaDave: So, PilotBoy showed up at my place a little while later and we hung out and watched for WereGirl.
mary ann: she hitched a ride in a semi?
mary ann: that's not safe.
CanadaDave: She did
CanadaDave: Eventually a big truck pulls over and PilotBoy helps WereGirl out of the passenger seat and we all thank the driver profusely
CanadaDave: She then fills us in on what happened while we drive her to the hospital.
CanadaDave: She'd been driving home and run out of gas.
CanadaDave: He car normally bugs her when it's low, but it hadn't this time, so she'd just run out
mary ann: oops.
CanadaDave: So, she got the jerry can out of the trunk so she could walk to a gas station to get some gas
CanadaDave: Except that it was really windy here and the can was blown onto the highway
CanadaDave: Her first instinct was to chase it, but she caught herself before she made that particular mistake
mary ann: this doesn't sound like it is going well for her
CanadaDave: Instead, the can was hit by a truck and smacked her in the chest and face.
CanadaDave: Hard enough that she thought she'd broken her collar bone
CanadaDave: So, it's dark, windy, and she's in pain, but the gas can is alright and she starts walking to the gas station, sobbing as she goes.
mary ann: oh wow.
CanadaDave: At this point the nice man in the semi pulls over.
CanadaDave: She realizes that getting a lift in a semi is not safe, but she just wants off the road and is willing to risk whatever might happen in the truck so that she can get off the road and not be creamed by a car blown off the road...
mary ann: i can see why she took the ride, although why she didn't just get gas and drive home....
CanadaDave: Well, she tried
CanadaDave: They went to the gas station
mary ann: k
CanadaDave: she filled the can and he drove her back to her car.
CanadaDave: She put the gas in the tank, but the battery was dead because she'd left her four way flashers on
mary ann: oh
CanadaDave: So, the nice trucker agreed to take her to Windsor and even let her use his phone to call me.
mary ann: why does she leave her home?
mary ann: ever?
CanadaDave: No one knows
CanadaDave: She really ought not to
CanadaDave: So, we drop her at the hospital and PilotBoy and I head out to deal with her car
CanadaDave: We find it on the side of the road and vainly struggle for a while trying to boost it.
mary ann: it wouldn't go?
CanadaDave: Nope
mary ann: ack
CanadaDave: We tried and we tried, and only succeeded in damaging the hood. It ended up catching a gust and getting blown all the way back
mary ann: oh my
CanadaDave: Eventually we gave up on that nonsense and I called 411 to get the number for a Tow Truck company
mary ann: k
mary ann: good idea
CanadaDave: The first one I called was busy so he gave me the number for a second one
CanadaDave: The second one was busy, so she gave me the number for a third...
mary ann: oh my
CanadaDave: The third finally agreed to send a truck
mary ann: hooray!
CanadaDave: Which took, like, forty minutes.
mary ann: how long since released was weregirl at this point?
CanadaDave: Dunno. But she called while we were on the way to the dealership asking what was up.
CanadaDave: Eventually she took a taxi home. At least I hope she had better luck with that than, well, anything else tonight, since I haven't talked to her since before she hailed the cab..
mary ann: y'all really shouldn't let her leave her house
CanadaDave: She really shouldn't
CanadaDave: But then the house would likely fall down or something
mary ann: fair enough
CanadaDave: So, it's been quite the evening. We spent a long time in the wind and cold trying to make that car go.
mary ann: i bet
mary ann: i spent twenty minutes on an elliptical machine and i thought that was eventful
