Fatal, adjective:
causing death, leading to failure or disaster.
Glimmer, verb: shine
faintly with a wavering light; noun: a faint or wavering light, a faint sign of
a feeling or quality, especially a desirable one.
Impartial, adjective:
treating all rivals or disputants equally; fair and just.
Things that make you say, "huh???"
I don’t know if any of you are fans of the Sherlock series
on PBS. I DVR the episodes if I'm not home. Watching the show is one
of my Sunday evening pleasures. I admit
I am no good at solving the mystery, so I hang on to every word until the very
end. Sometimes I wish I had the concentration
of Sherlock and his ability to see the whole picture. I know this trait would help my writing
tremendously, so alas, I make up stuff on the fly and hope at some point it
will make sense.
I live where there is
not much going on as far as drama, unless you count the local scandal of the
private lives of commissioners, or the public listing of small claims court. Not too much mystery in my life.
One night I did hear shots fired one night aproximately around 11 pm. We had just laid down in bed. When I heard the shots, I was confused,
because I had not heard shots fired outside of target practice (which is a common
everyday sound in the South) or a bird hunt, so I did not immediately place the
sound with the action.
“Was that…?”
“yeah, it was.”
And I was so impartial when I didn’t hear police sirens, I drifted off to
carefree dreamland without the fear of danger.
The next day I read in the paper it was a drive by shooting. The shots were unloaded
by a teen trying to be gangster. The six
shots were not fatal. One bullet hit one person’s forearm and
another hit someone in the leg, and all other shots from the clip landed
randomly around the direction the gun was pointed. No police came, because
apparently the whole neighborhood had the same attitude as I did, and didn’t
dial 911. The truth came to light when
said shot persons came in to an ER about 5 am. The next morning, and the police
made the report from there. I guess the
teens were in so much pain and freak out mode, they couldn’t stay in hiding. Now,
My advice to thugs, who want to avoid hospital visits, if I
had any platform to speak to any, would be to get involved in some survivalist
training. I’ve been around some United States Marines who told me stories of
how they pulled various impaled objects from their own body parts and those of
their friends, stitched them up and lived to show the scars. Or they should befriend someone with medical
experience. In the movies (which is believed by believers) most people go to see a veterinarian outside of normal office
hours to avoid the watchful eyes of hospital security.
The last mystery I had to solve
was a loud crash in my home. I had just
let the dogs outside for the evening and I heard a loud crash. I knew it wasn’t the canines, so I
investigated. I looked in every
room. The laundry room, where I hate to
admit is where things get stacked at random, nothing was out of the
ordinary. Nothing out of place in the
bedrooms or living room. I was perplexed. I didn’t have any glimmer of a clue about what made the sound was or what it could
have been. It was not until the
following evening, the mystery was solved.
I went to take a dish from the cabinet, and a tower of dishes were on
their way to say hello to my face! I
caught the plates just in time! The shelf bracket holding the shelf broke and
the shelf wedged itself within the cupboard and the dishes came to rest against
the cabinet door. It was nothing short
of good old fashioned luck! No dishes
were broke and no harm done. Easy fix to
replace the shelf bracket.
I know my life is in the slow lane, but I have a feeling
that in the near future, I’m going to have a floodgate of things to write
about. How? When? Why? There are three good mysteries right there.
Thank for reading my
notes for 3WW and stopping by.
Anxiously awaiting the new season of Sherlock! I love a good mystery!
- - DP
did the shelf break because of the shooting?
ReplyDeleteNo, different incidents. Unrelated.
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