Thursday, April 24, 2008

Driving Distraction

While driving home from work yesterday, I had one of those random "I wonder..." thoughts.

I was driving along I-5 across the ship canal bridge and it struck me, "I wonder if anyone has ever flipped over the guard rail and plummeted to the ground/water below." Morbid, I know. But I was driving in the outer lane, the one that exits to UW and I was eyeing the view, then the water, and then the dangerously low height of the rail. I thought about getting into an accident, which led me to dangling precariously off the edge, and then to falling.

Crazy how the mind jumps from one scenario to the next, all the while remaining delicately linked to the original thought.

1 comment:

. said...

I've thought of stuff like that before. It makes me want to see how many cars are piled up at the bottom.