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I saw a guy run over his girlfriend today… sorta. I worked from home or rather, I am working from home. The weather is so nice out… sun is shining and the temp is around 72F. Perfect climate for outdoor anything. I needed to run an errand at lunch and stop by a local store. The store is housed in a large cement building and all of the parking spaces along the wall facing the parking lot are directly adjacent to the building side with no sideway or posts to distance autos from the building. A young man… maybe 17-ish… was getting into his truck as I was pulling up. Either he had just loaded something into the bed and was trying to pull away or he was trying to back up closer and his girlfriend was guiding the effort from behind the truck. Regardless, he stepped on the gas and would have hit the building dead on with the rear bumper of his full sized Chevy truck were it not for the legs of his girlfriend between him and the building. He pinned her there screaming for a good 5 seconds before putting the transmission in the correct gear direction and moving to allow her to collapse on the pavement. I jumped out of my truck as did he and we met at her. I asked her if she was alright and if she needed me to call an ambulance, doctor, or parents (she looked like she was about 16-ish, but who knows with kids now-a-days). He snapped back at me that she was ok, going to be fine, etc. and that he had it under control. Since the damage did not appear to be life threatening, I decided to not press the matter just then, but rather enter the store and take care of my errand. I’d see what was up when I walked back out and reassess. I was inside about 25 or 30 minutes, but when I walked out, they were both in his vehicle with the engine off. She didn’t look comfortable at all, but if he had snapped a femur, I doubt she would have been able to get from the asphalt to the cab of the truck without the crowd of people outside intervening. I was going to tap on the window and ask if they needed assistance again, but I figure if she is actually sporting broken bones and they are too stupid to have searched for help in the last 30 minutes, they can continure to be stupid while he drives her home. Let the parents deal with it. Poor kids. I feel worse for her, but bad for both of them… it was obviously an accident.

I set up my new work laptop to let me in all the typical password challenge spots (bootup, login, return from screensaver, etc.) with a biometric scan of any of my fingertips. I am so digging not having to type a password. Yay for technology! Well, this one anyway.

Only one more day until the weekend. I can’t wait. I need the ability to not think. Who would have thought doing nothing could be so… something?