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Aug. 22nd, 2024 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foeclanThis evening started with a movie about a murderous blob of chewing gum, and ended with my dropping a random 18-year-old college student at her apartment.
Tonight was the world premier of 'The Wad', a B-movie homage/parody by Christopher Mihm (http://sainteuphoria.com). I've been going to his films for close to 20 years, starting with his first, The Monster of Phantom Lake, back in 2006. It was fun, I picked up some new posters, got them signed by whoever of the cast I could wrangle, and then dropped my friend Lou off at his place. I offered to drop my other friend Todd off as well.
On the way to his place, I witnessed a car accident. I stopped, in case they needed a witness. One car was a Somali family, who didn't speak much English. The other was a young woman due to start college in a couple of days at the U of MN. She was lost, didn't have her ID, her phone was dead, she didn't even know her new address, basically everything that could go wrong, had. She got confused, and took a left turn from the middle lane, directly in front of the other car. They managed to communicate enough to get insurance exchanged, and when I called 911, they said as long as nobody seemed injured, it was okay to just exchange insurance info, so that seemed handled. The Somali family left, but her car had a bent wheel, and wasn't going anywhere.
I let her borrow my phone to call her mom, and texted back and forth with her to help coordinate getting a tow truck to take it somewhere it could be stored while they sorted things out. Todd caught a bus home, since it seemed like we'd be at this for a while. She seemed out of it at first, and had hit her head. Her pupils were dilated. She declined my offer to call 911 again. We were there for a couple of hours getting everything sorted out, by which time she seemed much more lucid. I told her she needed to call the health insurance line for advice, and apprised her mom of her situation so she could follow up.
The whole time, I was trying to keep her engaged to help her calm down, telling her various stories of things that happened to me in school, and car-related incidents. I mentioned moving across the country for a boyfriend who dumped me a month later at one point. When I dropped her off, she asked if I'd found another boyfriend, and when I said no, she said she hoped they were out there for me because I'm a catch. Which felt nice. :) I texted her mom to let her know I'd dropped her off, and then continued home myself. I got home a bit after midnight.
Not how I saw the night going, but certainly more interesting than sitting at my computer.
Tonight was the world premier of 'The Wad', a B-movie homage/parody by Christopher Mihm (http://sainteuphoria.com). I've been going to his films for close to 20 years, starting with his first, The Monster of Phantom Lake, back in 2006. It was fun, I picked up some new posters, got them signed by whoever of the cast I could wrangle, and then dropped my friend Lou off at his place. I offered to drop my other friend Todd off as well.
On the way to his place, I witnessed a car accident. I stopped, in case they needed a witness. One car was a Somali family, who didn't speak much English. The other was a young woman due to start college in a couple of days at the U of MN. She was lost, didn't have her ID, her phone was dead, she didn't even know her new address, basically everything that could go wrong, had. She got confused, and took a left turn from the middle lane, directly in front of the other car. They managed to communicate enough to get insurance exchanged, and when I called 911, they said as long as nobody seemed injured, it was okay to just exchange insurance info, so that seemed handled. The Somali family left, but her car had a bent wheel, and wasn't going anywhere.
I let her borrow my phone to call her mom, and texted back and forth with her to help coordinate getting a tow truck to take it somewhere it could be stored while they sorted things out. Todd caught a bus home, since it seemed like we'd be at this for a while. She seemed out of it at first, and had hit her head. Her pupils were dilated. She declined my offer to call 911 again. We were there for a couple of hours getting everything sorted out, by which time she seemed much more lucid. I told her she needed to call the health insurance line for advice, and apprised her mom of her situation so she could follow up.
The whole time, I was trying to keep her engaged to help her calm down, telling her various stories of things that happened to me in school, and car-related incidents. I mentioned moving across the country for a boyfriend who dumped me a month later at one point. When I dropped her off, she asked if I'd found another boyfriend, and when I said no, she said she hoped they were out there for me because I'm a catch. Which felt nice. :) I texted her mom to let her know I'd dropped her off, and then continued home myself. I got home a bit after midnight.
Not how I saw the night going, but certainly more interesting than sitting at my computer.
