Good reason to make a phone call...

[stnmtthw]

Little background... I'm a supervisor at a large food manufacturing plant. I recently got put on the graveyard shift as part of our normal rotation. The day shift starts at 5:30 am, so I get the task of taking all of the call ins and trying to call people at home to cover at 4 in the damn morning...

Anyway, at about 5:00 one of my operators calls to say that there was a wreck at a major intersection and the police were diverting traffic, so there might be a lot of people late. I told him thanks for the heads up and didn't think anything else about it. A couple of minutes later, another one of my operators called and said that there was a wreck. I said, yeah, Tim already called me. He said, but my sister's car is one of the vehicles, so I'm going to follow the ambulance to the hospital... thirty minutes later, he called back and told me that his sister and 4 year old nephew didn't make it.

Turns out that they were sitting at the stop light, waiting for the green, when a drunk in an Escalade rear ended them at 60 miles an hour, drove over the top of them, and murdered two of the three people in the car. I got the operators shift covered, filed the paperwork for his funeral leave, and went home and hugged my wife and daughter up as tight as I could...

Which brings me to my point... make a call to someone you love. Tell them how much you love them. Today. Right now. Spend time with your family. Especially with your children. It may already be too late, so make it as good as you can NOW...

[mal paso]

Jesus..


Matt, my condolences, for you and the families involved.




And yes, unfortunately in tragedy we can be forced to recognize what truly matters..



"make it as good as you can now" may be the wisest thing I've ever seen here

I'm sorry buddy..

[bigmuff113]

Maximum penalty

[stnmtthw]

Thanks, Mal... I know the family, but only in the way you know everybody in a small city...

As far as maximum penalty, they have to find the driver first... he bailed and the cops still haven't found him.

[Toto'sDad]

This is just a tragic story, I'm sorry for those who were taken away from their loved ones through no fault of their own.

[Westerly Sunn]

...and that fool was in good enough shape to run off.

[soulman969]

That's a heartbreaking story and my deepest sympathies to the family. The driver is guilty of reckless homicide. Of simply put he's a murderer who should spend his days locked far away in some dark cell with only his conscience for company....if he has one.

I have four daughters, all adults now, but I either call, text or email each one of them at least once a week or more and every single communication between us always ends with "I love you" for the very same reasons you indicate Matt.

If that's ever the last words they hear from me then those are the three I want them to be.

[StratBluesRock]

I'm speechless. I hope the driver gets whats coming to him.

[w3stie]

I was rear-ended by drunk years ago. Totalled the car, but I was unharmed. I didn't even see him. The other driver took off and a witness got hi details, said he'd been weaving all over the road. The cops never caught the guy. I was on my way to my fiancée 21st birthday, and I had a good reason for being late. It could have turned out differently though.

[Westerly Sunn]

Some jerk like this T-boned my girlfriend and took off. Two weeks after friends figured out who it was, he was found dead in a corn field. Seems he had a falling out with some of his associates.