Yesterday I received a call from my daughter... During an assignment. Mom, uh I have a problem... keep in mind that I only get calls when there is a problem. Rachel called to tell me that she hit a slick in the road, and the car spun out... but "don't worry, I'm ok and the car should be fine, just the tire."
Thank God she is fine, except for her wrist which she somehow hurt.
News is a funny thing sometimes, as a journalist, I am always skeptical about initial reports. Listening to a Police Scanner, you learn fast that what may seem to be mundane, may be a ragging fire, or a ragging fire may be just a little smoke.
In this case, smoke became a fire... which grew into a flaming dawn of dread.
The mechanic, my beloved mechanic called to tell me, "Rachels car is totaled." The frame was bent into an "S curve." When I phoned her she started to scream, NO WAY!!! In disbelief, "it can't be true." Turns out she came home, and was screaming on her phone at me from her room. NICE!!!
David had come to take me to the Skirball to see a photo exhibit and we looked at each other... she in her bedroom! Well, he diffused the situation and explained the facts of CAR LIFE to her.... while being the quintessential photojournalist, snapping pictures of our discourse. Funny thing when you're the subject of the camera eye.... I'm not used to being the subject. But I took my own medicine and tried to ignore the fact that I was under the proverbial microscope for a change, taking it in, and trying to learn something about how it feels for a change... for the future.
Anyway, when we returned from our little field trip, I took her to collect her crap out of the car. And what a load of crap it was... I told the mechanic Danny that I think she was running away from home. Just to lighten the situation. So today is the day my baby's first car died. We're working on regrouping, as hard as that is. KIDS.
Could there be a way to bind them so they don't grow into teenager and young adults? That was my question to our Sports editor yesterday, I was kidding of course, but man when they grow up... "BABY IT'S A WILD WORLD," expensive too.
I remember the days when it just took a book to make her happy........................................
P.S. JB... DON'T TOP THIS GIRL..... I win this time.
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And off to the scrap heap she went, with a ting and a tang and a clank clank clank.
Totality--to total a car, to wreek havoc on oppositional traffic, crushed metal headed for the great place in the sky where there must be millions of teenagers cars.
Good thing our girls are stubborn enough to survive all of this!
Mine last week, your's this week. Maybe the world is a safer place now that their wings have been clipped.
love ya
JB
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