Sunday, June 15, 2008

Accidental recall

Over dinner , Vietnamese style, topic shift.
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Warren: The crepe, fried crispy, with mushrooms and minced prawns, it's a treat।
Bill: Broad daylight, you say?
Warren: Garlic in vinegar. Mmm. Sunny, dry conditions.
Bill: No traffic?
Warren: At two in the afternoon? Occasional farmer crossing the road on his tractor? Rural mail picked him up.
Bill: And he's just gone straight on at the turn? Speed?
Warren: No skid marks. Just went into the ditch. Looks like he just forgot to turn.
Bill: Forgot?
Warren: To turn.
Bill: Knowing him, and you know, this is just speculation mind you, something took hold of him.
Warren: Ha, like a one of them UFOs?
Bill: Not that. He was maybe thinking something else. He'd got a new theory and it distracted him. He goes absent then.
Warren: Know what you mean. Was a fellow went off Greenacres Line few years back. Dead straight road. Roared into a tree. A geneticist.
Bill: And he doesn't remember anything?
Warren: Says he was unconscious for an hour and woke up in the ambulance. Told me he doesn't recall anything since Thursday.
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