centre of the universe - the dreaming: Fallout

10/04/2004: "Fallout" The party was great. The Captain had three friends his size and about six grown-up friends. Unfortunately, some of those grown-up friends hit a deer on the way home. They're okay, but shaken up.

I'll put up some pictures of the party later on.

Right now, I have a more pressing issue. The smoke detector in our garage/loft starts going off when the weather gets cold. Last year I think it went off for a week or two straight. It's about fifteen feet in the air, and I can't get at it - it's difficult to get the extension ladder up there. We don't know why it's going off, but when we turn on the fans upstairs, that seems to help. I think it's a battery-run one, but I'm not sure.

Sigh.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Pirate Bash, and I think next year we'll have a vampire party. Then I will have almost exhausted the repertoire of ready-made costumes I already have at home to contribute to the party theme.

"Almost time!" "advice"

5 Comments

TUO , on Monday, 4th October:

The pirate party was very very very cool. I am still awed by the cake. The only downer was having to explain to all the helpful emergency-type people after we hit the deer why we were dressed as pirates. The towtruck operator actually asked if we were high.

I also, having apparently learned *NOTHING* from the labour/heroin-addict incident, tried to be funny on the official accident report. I await repercussions.

But no-one was hurt (except the deer) and that's the main thing. My car might be a write-off though, which makes me sad.

Noah , on Monday, 4th October:

I've always wondered about something. Do you get to keep the deer after you hit it?

cenobyte , on Monday, 4th October:

The pirate stuff I can see. But what, for God's sake, did you tell people on the report?

Was it SGI people or police people? Because I've found that sometimes police people can have quite good senses of humour. Like that kind officer who pulled me over at a stop check, discovered I had warrants out because of parking tickets, and asked to see my registration and license. At the time, my license had a sticker over the address that said "probably just the planet venus". He looked at it, looked at me, tried not to smile, and asked: "how long have you been living on Venus, Ma'am?"
"Oh quite some time now, officer," I replied, "it's closer to the sun, you know. Our winters aren't quite as long."

He actually didn't arrest me. OR ask me to do a breathalyzer test. And when I asked if I should pay him directly or take my unpaid parking fees to the station, he stared at me for a moment and said slowly, "the station, ma'am. Otherwise I might think you're trying to bribe me".
"for $40!? That would be retarded. What kind of an idiot would try to bribe a cop for $40? No, if I was trying to bribe you, I'd offer you a couple of hundred at least, so as not to be insulting."
"Ah. Yes...well, thank you, I think," he replied, handing back my license and registration, "but that would still be wrong. Just pay at the station, please."

TUO , on Monday, 4th October:

Noah: I think you do get to keep the deer, but I didn't really want that one.

CoTU: Well, the accident report form had a bullet list at the top of things what you had to include in your description (time, place, weather, damage, injuries, drug/alcohol use) so because I was still sort of shook up I just made a bullet list of answers, if you see what I mean, because it saved thinking. And it wasn't until I re-read my list that I realized the word "deer" didn't actually appear anywhere, because the bullet list didn't have a "what actually happened" item.

So I went through my list again and added deer to everything. It started out in good faith "Damage: left headlight smashed, hood crumpled, radiator cracked... because of collision with deer") but then I got to the injuries ("None... except for the deer") and drug/alcohol use ("No... but the deer had a crazy look in its eye.") OK, it's not about to win the Leacock award, but it was the best I could do at the time.

cenobyte , on Tuesday, 5th October:

*I* should think they'd be HAPPY to receive an accident report that didn't include the phrase "That dumb asshole flipped me the bird so I T-boned him!" or "I don't know what happened; one minute I was driving, and the next I was upside-down in the ditch. Maybe I fell asleep. Because I have been working a lot lately and on the road so much that..." or "Hit patch of ice. Spun around three times. Was stopped on third spin by mini-van."

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