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October 20, 2003

It's one louder

Girl-E was watching the Today Show this morning, and they were interviewing a young woman who saved the life of a man on the Staten Island Ferry during the tragic accident last week. The man's parents joined her on the show to express their gratitude, blah blah. The father stopped Matt in the middle of the interview and said, in a slow, deliberate voice, "This is what I want to say. The headline, the next day, read 'Ten - dead - in - tragic - Staten - Island - Ferry - accident.' All I can think is, that headline could have been very different. It could have said, 'ELEVEN dead'. If it weren't for this young lady here, it would have said 'ELEVEN dead'. I just can't get that out of my head. That it could have said ELEVEN. But it only said TEN. My son would have been that one more, making it not TEN. But ELEVEN." And on and on like that, for a while.

Tragedy not withstanding, clearly all she could think of when listening to this was "most amplifiers only go to ten, right? But look at this. This one goes to ELEVEN." "What's wrong with ten?" "But this one goes to ELEVEN."

She's a horrible person, and she knows it. She really is glad the accident wasn't one deader.

Posted by The Twins at October 20, 2003 09:53 AM

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