A red car, traveling south at 35 mph, reaches the intersection of 300 n and University Avenue at 9:05 pm. A small white pickup truck traveling north at approximately 25 mph takes a left turn at the intersection of 300 n and University Avenue at 9:05 pm.
A girl on a cell phone leaves her parents house at approximately 9:05 pm and walks slowly toward the intersection of 300 n and University Avenue. Halfway there, she turns back and re-enters her parents home.
Her sister is at the computer. She looks up from her typing and asks,
“Did you call 911?”
The girl answers,
“No.”
The sister, quite rudely says,
“Get off the damn phone and call 911.”
The girl complies.

Earlier that day…
It didn’t snow.

Today wasn’t what you would call, “productive”

With the advent of the television the typical American family is no longer under any obligation to interact with each other, society, or even their pets. The outcome is a rise in parakeet deaths and malnutrition in cats. There has, however, been shown a correlation between the parakeet deaths and the underfeeding of cats by their human companions…

Later that day…

There is a bird that lives in the back bedroom of my parents’ home. He sits in that cage, his feathers clipped, occasionally chirping. I can’t look at him. I pretend he’s not there. If I happen to think of him, my heart will sink. His feathers will never carry him to far away places…

Today things were not as peculiar as they have sometimes been…