the motorcycle accident is telling. he drove off angry at his wife on a bike he was hiding from his wife on unfamiliar roads. It doesn’t mention but i tend to doubt he had safety gear on, from the way he described his accident.
if he’d had these boots on, would he still have a foot?
I’m guessing it wouldnt have been severed entirely with proper safety gear …
ATGATT all the gear all the time….
it sounds like he steered directly into the oncoming car. this is not uncommon among inexperienced motorbike and even bicycle riders under pressure. “countersteering” is required to execute a turn and while counterintuituve you steer in the opposite direction you wish to go to initiate the turn. it sounds like he did the opposite under pressure. lack of training, riding hotheaded, in the dark, unfamiliar area. it was a crack up waiting to happen.
kind of like the short sale…
the grubby mterialism of it all is sad.
even the kids, describing a small gift as “tiding him over”….until he could get larger gifts. yeeeesh…
i guess it is all ordinary, but ordinary can be creepy, if you look at it from the right angle under certain lighting…
