Would You Have Done That?
August 19, 1998
5:32 a.m.
Lisa went to visit her sister in Cincinnati yesterday. Somewhere around 2:00, I got paged out of a meeting by my secretary. Let me tell you straight out that despite the obvious, there are no good conversations that start out "Lisa said that you shouldn't worry, she's alive and well. But she wants to talk to you really, really badly." Apparently a truck lost its load on I-75. Lisa ran over a big piece of metal, and it did a number on the underside of the engine. She made it a mile or so down the road before everything pretty much siezed up. So there she was, in a dead car beside the interstate with our ten-year-old daughter. Every mother's dream, eh? Luckily, two incredibly nice men stopped, checked on her, went to phoneher sister, then came back and sat with her while she waited for the tow truck and whatnot. It's pretty incredible when these things happen, you know? Just when you start thinking the world is getting callous, and that things like honor and commitment and all those other words that people seem to scoff at anymore have lost their power, a couple people go out of their way--set aside their entire day's plans--to spend a couple hours on a hot, sweaty slab of asphalt with a frightened woman and her child. It made me wonder about myself. Would I have done that? Would you? Anyway, I went to Cincinnati to bring them back home last night. It was a nice drive, and along the way I worked out a bit of a kink in my thoughts on the third book of my series. But mostly I thought of how things could have worked out--how Lisa could have swerved to miss the object, and run into something else much worse, how she could have been completely alone on the highway and run into who knows what problems. There's kooks in the world, you know? I'm writing again this morning. Changing the third book a bit, and settling out on how my outline is going to flow. Hopefully tomoorrow or Friday the thing will hit the mail. I'm really excited about that. But sometimes it's nice to put things into perspective.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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