Sunday, April 16, 2006

The Driver’s Version (1)

To keep her happy he put on cruise control, and turned up the stereo.

She was quote-unquote pissed off.
He was quote-unquote mortified.

Something had obviously unhinged his mind. His speech patterns were incoherent; he jabbered away - apologising over and again to the woman in the coma. It was with some difficulty, therefore, the officer at the scene had been able to reconstruct the driver’s version of events.

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