HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 3 VOL 6
JANUARY 6TH 2008
WEATHER; WARM, MED HUMIDITY, 57/77 DEGREES
MOM GOT UP EARLY AND HAD TO GO TO TOWN FOR GROCERYS AND TO CHECK ON SHANNON! SHE’S DOING OK! I STAYED HOME AND GOT CAUGHT UP ON SOME THINGS I’VE DREADED DOING BUT I GOT THEM DONE! TIM MADE ME A CADDY FOR MY POCKET JUNK BUT THE DRAWER WAS STICKING SO I GOT OUT MY TRUSTY BELT SANDER AND TOOK CARE OF IT! IT SURE IS NICE TO HAVE ONE SPOT TO PUT ALL MY STUFF!
WE WENT TO 5:00 MASS THEN OVER TO DICK AND COLLEENS TO DELIVER THEIR GOODIES FROM CHRISTMAS AND FINISH WATCHING THE WASHINGTON/SEATTLE GAME, THE SEAHAWKS CAME FROM BEHIND AND BEAT THE REDSKINS 35/28 (?)! DICK SAID HE WAS GOING TO START DRIVING A KIA HE HAS THAT GETS 27-28 MPG IN TOWN AND THEN GET AN OLDSMOBILE OUT COLLEEN USED TO DRIVE THAT GOT ABOUT THE SAME IN TOWN AS THE KIA THEN WE WENT TO HOME DEPOT AND GOT A NEW DRAPERY ROD FOR THE DRAPES OVER THE SLIDING DOOR! WE WENT TO APPLEBEES FOR DINNER THEN HOME TO FINISH WATCHING THE STEELERS/JAGUARS, THE JAGUARS CAME FROM BEHIND TO BEAT THE STEELERS (CAN’T REMEMBER THE SCORE)!
IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH PLEASE DON’T READ ANY FURTHER BUT, IT’S A TRUE STORY ABOUT MY YOUNG LIFE!
I HAD GOTTEN SO MANY SPEEDING TICKETS THAT MY DAD CALLED MR. SNYDER AT SNYDER AMBULANCE VALLEY DIVISION AND ASKED IF HE WOULD LET ME RIDE ON ONE OF HIS AMBULANCES ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS THINKING MAYBE IF I GOT TO ACTUALLY SEE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN FROM SPEEDING I’D SLOW DOWN? MR. SNYDER AGREED SO I WAS ASSIGNED TO THE AMBULANCE THAT TOOK ALL THE ACCIDENT CALLS ON SEPULVEDA BLVD. AND THOSE OVER THE MOUNTAIN ON MALIBU CANYON ROAD! FYI! THAT’S WHERE M.A.S.H. WAS FILMED! THE DRIVER WAS A MEDIC NAMED DALE WORTHING! WE ALSO COVERED THE RACES AT CULVER CITY RACE TRACK AND GILMORE STADIUM!
MY BROTHER-IN-LAW HERB DAVIS HELPED MY DAD BUILD AN AMBULANCE AND WERE GOING TO GO IN THE AMBULANCE BUSINESS TILL THEY FOUND OUT WHAT A HASSEL IT WAS GOING TO BE TO GET A LICENCE. THIS IS WHEN HERB MET MY SISTER RUTH AND STARTED DATING HER AND THEY EVENTUALLY GOT MARRIED! MY DAD PUT THE AMBULANCE UP FOR SALE AND MR. SNYDER BOUGHT IT AND WENT IN THE AMBULANCE BUSINESS SO MY DAD HAD A LITTLE BIT OF PULL WITH HIM!
THE FIRST ACCIDENT I WAS ON WAS A CAR LOAD OF YOUNG PEOPLE: THE CAR WAS A 1940 BUICK CONVERTIBLE! THEY HIT THE BACK END OF A SLOW MOVING HAY TRUCK DOING AN ESTIMATED 80 MPH! THE CAR WAS BURIED UP UNDER THE BED OF THE TRUCK AND HAD PUSHED THE DUAL WHEELS UP TO ALMOST THE BACK OF THE CAB! THERE WAS A WRECKER THERE WHEN WE GOT THERE AND IT HAD PULLED THE CAR OUT FAR ENOUGH TO GET THREE OF THE BODIES OUT OF THE CAR THAT WERE IN THE FRONT SEAT AND LAYED THEM ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WITH SHEETS OVER THEM. ABOUT THAT TIME ANOTHER AMBULANCE GOT THERE AND WE STARTED TO LOAD A BODY WHEN THE COP CAME OVER AND TOLD US WE COULDN’T TILL THE CORONER GOT THERE SO WE STARTED GETTING READY TO LOAD WHEN THE CORONER ARRIVED AND CHECKED TWO OF THE BODIES AND TOLD US WE COULD LOAD THE ONE LAYING NEAR THE ROAD SURFACE AND THE ONE LAYING IN THE GRASS! WE PULLED THE SPARE GURNEY OUT OF ITS PLACE IN THE TOP OF THE BACK OF THE AMBULANCE AND WENT OVER TO THE BODY NEAR THE ROAD! BECAUSE I WAS BIGGER THAN DALE HE TOLD ME TO TAKE THE HEAD END AND SHOWED ME HOW TO PICK UP UNDER THE SHOULDERS WHICH I DID! ALL OF A SUDDEN HE DROPPED THE FEET AND TURNED WHITE AS A SHEE, WE HAD MOVED THE BODY ABOUT 2 FEET TOWARDS THE GURNEY! I HAD NO IDEA WHAT HAD MADE HIM DROP THE FEET TILL LOOKED DOWN AND THE HEAD WAS STILL LYING WHERE THE BODY HAD BEEN! I LOST EVERYTHING RIGHT THERE, THE CORONER RAN OVER AND THREW ANOTHER SHEET OVER THE HEAD! NOW DALE WAS EXPERIENCED BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD DEALT WITH A DECAPITATION AND NEEDLESS TO SAY IT WAS MY FIRST TOO! THE OTHER AMBULANCE CREW AGREED TO TAKE THE ONE THAT LOST ITS HEAD AND ANOTHER WE TOOK TWO THAT WE COULD SEE WERE IN ONE PIECE BUT DEAD! THE CORONER CAME OVER AND ASKED IF I WAS OK? I SAID YEAH BUT, HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN? HE SAID EVIDENTLY THE PERSON HAD BEEN DECAPITATED FROM GOING UNDER THE TRUCK AND BEEN THROWN TO WHERE WE TRIED TO PICK IT UP! THE POLICE HAD PUT THE SHEET OVER IT AND WHEN I CHECKED I COULD TELL HE WAS DEAD! THE HEAD WAS HELD TO THE NECK BY SUCTION BUT WHEN YOU PICKED IT UP THE HEAD SLIPPED AWAY FROM THE NECK AND STARTED TO BLEED!
BELIEVE ME I DIDN’T GET ANY KIND OF MOVING VIOLATION FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS ONLY PARKING TICKETS!
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISUE
HOWARD
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