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Friday, July 31, 2015

 

What is it with Mondays?


Monday, Monday

What a way for this week to begin.  NOT!

Here in my part of VERY, VERY North Phoenix we have the situation of one road in and one road out.  It’s otherwise known as “I-17”.  This week at approximately 7:15 a.m. I got a text from darling daughter Sam saying, “I hope u rn’t going anywhere 2day-there’s a huge accident blocking 17/303”

 

Trouble was I actually was ready to leave for my weekly physical therapy appointment.  I told Steve, who was able to at least take surface streets from home to Carefree Highway and down to Scottsdale.  He was going the opposite way. 

Bully for him.  Still took him over an hour and 15 minutes, but at least he got to work.  I made it 5 miles when I hit the expected “pile-up” and decided to exit and go home.  It took me 25 minutes to get to the top of the exit ramp.  I used the time wisely and called my PT to let them know I was NOT going to make it anytime in the next few hours.

They were more than understanding and made my appointment for about 6 hours later.  Later, I wound up having to cancel again and make my appointment for Wednesday.

By the time I got back to the house I had been gone for over an hour.  Monday had struck.  Everyone on FaceBook was showing aerial shots, shots of them in the gridlock and telling everyone to JUST STAY THE HECK OFF THE 17!

Decided to use the unexpected open time to find enough shade to walk Lucky.  For whatever reason the temperature was still under 85, so I felt the ground and hooked her up.  We found enough shaded area to stroll about 1-1/2 miles.

I can’t say how Lucky felt (outside of the smile on her face), but I felt quite virtuous about this first walk in a week.

By the time we got home I checked FB and discovered I had a bit more of the sad story:  seems as if a car somehow didn’t use the rules of safe driving and sped without watching and slammed itself under a semi.  Obviously there were fatalities along with the gridlock.  One of the offshoot roads also was shut down due to a couple of fatal accidents.

Having been a victim of not 1 but 2 drivers who felt the “need for speed” outweighed others right to live, I found myself thinking that these people have cost several people their lives and have changed their families forever.

More news continued-seems the young man who was driving was pretty high on meth.  He survived but his 2 passengers died.  One was a young mom of 3.

So sad and more than unnecessary.

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