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So there was excitement at Chez Piggyhawk at 6:15 this morning.

Hawk’s cell phone rang (I was already awake b/c Zoe had been fussing in her room at 6). It’s Scooter. Apparently K-Dawg was in a car accident at around 1:30 in the morning. We were still awake (I was collecting movie quotes) when the helicopter went over life-flighting someone to the hospital (K-Dawg went in the ambulance). So according to Jed, the chaplain called him at 3 a.m. to let him know that K-Dawg had been in an accident and was admitted. So he & Bets went to Altoona. Somehow Scooter found out. Since he works at one of the hosptals, it’s possible that’s how he knew. Or b/c he’s a part-time cop, that might be how he knew. Or Bets or Jed might have called him. In any case, this all transpired around 3. No one called Hawk until after 6.

So K-Dawg is okay. He was the only one in the car smart enough to wear a seat belt but he was stupid enough to get in the car with a  drunk behind the wheel. Everyone is very angry in just about every direction. Hawk is angry at K-Dawg for riding with a  drunk driver (as am I and everyone else). Hawk is mad at the rest of the family for not calling him. I mean, if someone’s in a wreck — and you have a doctor in the family who knows hospital personnel — wouldn’t you call him? That aside, so long as the person isn’t, say, ostracized (*cough*), wouldn’t you call him period? So Bets brought K-Dawg back to his place and was on her way to get medication for him when Hawk spotted her on the street (he was headed to McD’s for our dinner; we went to the store tonight so now we have Real Food). He says he gave her a bit of hell about no one calling him. I gave it to Jed earlier when he called to pester me (14 solid minutes of him talking about nothing). The one I think is responsible for making the “don’t call Hawk” decision was Scooter. Scooter likes being a Big Man and I think he liked having a Big Thing to be somewhat in charge of.

In any case, K-Dawg will be in a neck collar for Thing 1’s birthday party at the bowling alley on Saturday.  He’s lucky to be alive, IMO and it will take every single ounce of my willpower not to rip into him about getting into a car with a drunk driver. I hope Thing 1 & Thing 2 are fully aware of what happened and get an eyeful of consequence. Maybe that’s the cosmic lesson to be taken from this. I don’t know. The other passenger was flown to Pittsburgh today and there will be charges against the driver (who was going 80-100 mph on a winding country road) so the very fact that he’s resting at home shows how very lucky he is.

Oh and since this is Bumblefuck, I have to share how the accident was discovered. The local township cop was pulled over to the side of the road taking a piss. The car went zooming past him and moments later, CRASH. So he zipped up and followed the car and sure enough, it was the wreck. So were it not for that extra cup of coffee, they might not have been discovered for quite some time.

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