Thursday, June 08, 2006

MOTORCYCLE MAMA (well.....I'm assuming)

At 12:40 this morning, Denton and I were awoken by some lady yelling. Not 'HEP ME! HEP ME!' yelling, but just general screaming. It sounded like an argument at first, but the words were pretty much inaudible - partially due to the distance (100 yds away or so) and my sleepiness.

...but since I was up, hell, I may as well pee - right? I could still hear the 'talking' from my bathroom and the window was shut.

For those who don't know - our house sits up on top of a hill at the edge of the heights (should any of that be upper case? probably, but who cares). Our 'front' yard (really, don't axe about the quotes) goes down a hill to MLK - which is a 3 lane, one way road. It can get a little loud w/traffic, especially as it is a route to two major hospitals (read: lots of sirens). We're pretty much use to the noise.

Anyhoo, through the trees, I could see what little traffic there was, slowing down. Even a city bus slowed down and changed lanes when he saw/heard the ruckus. I heard the word 'fire', but that's about it.

When I got back to the bedroom, Denton was looking out another window, but we really couldn't' see anything. We went back to bed, but I wasn't sleeping. I think he was in dreamland about 2.5 minutes after crawling back in.

...but then the sirens came.....as I knew they would. It sounded like one fire truck. The rumbling of the idling diesel engine bothered me more than the yelling or the sirens. I finally slept after the truck left. Honestly, they could have been there 10 minutes or 2 hours - I have no frame of reference. I do know I slept until my alarm went off, which I never do. Blobby was (and is) tarred.

So, I have to go down MLK to get to work (one of those two major hospitals, dontcha know) and what do I see about 100 yds from our street on the sidewalk? A motorcycle burned to the core.


How the fuck did THAT happen? Was it being driven by a drummer from Spinal Tap?? Do these things just catch fire?

How did these folks not get burned? I heard no ambulance....and trust me, I know that sound like no one else! I'm waiting to see how many days or weeks it will take for someone to actually move the burned out mess.

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