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It's a bit sad in our house today. My cousin died this morning.
We weren't close - although we live(d) on the same estate just a few hundred yards apart, we hadn't seen each other for a few years, until last week. Even then I only saw her long enough to say "hello" and "goodbye".
She'd had her share of problems. Was a mum at a young age, two of her four kids have had kids of their own, even though none of them are yet 16. She had drug problems - and I mean hard drugs such as Crack, not just the odd spliff.
She was quite stunning looking, until the last few years when the drugs started to take their toll. She lost a lot of weight, and was very pale skinned - nothing like I'd remembered her, but exactly as other family members had described her recently.
Needless to say, most people who knew her thought that one day she would kill herself with an overdose, and that was the first thing that went through our minds when we heard the news this morning. But that wasn't what had happened at all.
Last night she went out with some friends. They were driving home this morning somewhere around 8am, when - apparently - the driver fell asleep at the wheel, while on a main road through town, about 3 miles from home.
The car crashed into the wall of a pub which I've been to many times. Everyone else is apparently okay, but she died at the scene. At 32, she was just a few months older than me.
So as I said, it never ends the way you think it will.
It would be hypocritical to say that I'm in floods of tears, because I'm not. As I said, I hardly ever saw her, and never really knew her. But it's saddening, all the same. Someone survives all that, and then goes out like this. Makes you wonder.
You never think, when you see or speak to someone, that it could be the last time you ever see them. To me it seems odd that I saw her last week for the first time in years, and now she's gone for good. I won't go into details here, but there were some unusual circumstances which led to us seeing each other on that particular day. It just seems so spooky.
I'm not a religious person at all, but maybe it was just fate? Too much happened for it to be just pure chance - I'm sure of that.
Still, that's my little sad story for the day.
Rest in peace, Jo.
We weren't close - although we live(d) on the same estate just a few hundred yards apart, we hadn't seen each other for a few years, until last week. Even then I only saw her long enough to say "hello" and "goodbye".
She'd had her share of problems. Was a mum at a young age, two of her four kids have had kids of their own, even though none of them are yet 16. She had drug problems - and I mean hard drugs such as Crack, not just the odd spliff.
She was quite stunning looking, until the last few years when the drugs started to take their toll. She lost a lot of weight, and was very pale skinned - nothing like I'd remembered her, but exactly as other family members had described her recently.
Needless to say, most people who knew her thought that one day she would kill herself with an overdose, and that was the first thing that went through our minds when we heard the news this morning. But that wasn't what had happened at all.
Last night she went out with some friends. They were driving home this morning somewhere around 8am, when - apparently - the driver fell asleep at the wheel, while on a main road through town, about 3 miles from home.
The car crashed into the wall of a pub which I've been to many times. Everyone else is apparently okay, but she died at the scene. At 32, she was just a few months older than me.
So as I said, it never ends the way you think it will.
It would be hypocritical to say that I'm in floods of tears, because I'm not. As I said, I hardly ever saw her, and never really knew her. But it's saddening, all the same. Someone survives all that, and then goes out like this. Makes you wonder.
You never think, when you see or speak to someone, that it could be the last time you ever see them. To me it seems odd that I saw her last week for the first time in years, and now she's gone for good. I won't go into details here, but there were some unusual circumstances which led to us seeing each other on that particular day. It just seems so spooky.
I'm not a religious person at all, but maybe it was just fate? Too much happened for it to be just pure chance - I'm sure of that.
Still, that's my little sad story for the day.
Rest in peace, Jo.
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Similar thing happened with my Uncle not long ago, he was hit by a drunk driver. Strange thing was he usually went to work nights by pedal bike, and he was hit when getting out of a taxi.
It's quite strange, I saw my Uncle not long before he died too, and I hardly ever saw him.
It's quite strange, I saw my Uncle not long before he died too, and I hardly ever saw him.
Well, today it's all over the front of the local paper.
If anyone lives in or around Northampton, check out the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.
I had to go into town today, and went past the site of the crash on the bus. Quite surreal.
You see pictures of crashes in the papers day-in, day-out, and you think "Oh, that's a shame." Then you turn the page and forget. Let me tell you, it's quite a different feeling when you know or are related to the person/people involved.
If anyone lives in or around Northampton, check out the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.
I had to go into town today, and went past the site of the crash on the bus. Quite surreal.
You see pictures of crashes in the papers day-in, day-out, and you think "Oh, that's a shame." Then you turn the page and forget. Let me tell you, it's quite a different feeling when you know or are related to the person/people involved.
Reading this made me think of someone I knew who died young and suddenly.
He was my best friend at primary school. We drifted apart and the next I heard of him was that he'd hung himself at university. He shared with me the happiest days of my life, and now when I look back I feel nothing but sadness.
He was my best friend at primary school. We drifted apart and the next I heard of him was that he'd hung himself at university. He shared with me the happiest days of my life, and now when I look back I feel nothing but sadness.
*signed
hey col, you know you sighned up for that story,
go and have look at what I wrote, I think we should have a war to try and get the part...
go and have look at what I wrote, I think we should have a war to try and get the part...
Mr. No shoes wrote:
> there there phi11ip,
> being a mongoose isn't all that bad, well maybe it is, but thats not
> the point. You should have a fight with crazy col to settle this once
> and for all, or you could just go to bed crying...
I want the fight option. You seriously think that I say the same stuff I say here in real life. You idiot. Of course I do, I state whatever comes to my mind here but not in real life.
> there there phi11ip,
> being a mongoose isn't all that bad, well maybe it is, but thats not
> the point. You should have a fight with crazy col to settle this once
> and for all, or you could just go to bed crying...
I want the fight option. You seriously think that I say the same stuff I say here in real life. You idiot. Of course I do, I state whatever comes to my mind here but not in real life.
there there phi11ip,
being a mongoose isn't all that bad, well maybe it is, but thats not the point. You should have a fight with crazy col to settle this once and for all, or you could just go to bed crying...
being a mongoose isn't all that bad, well maybe it is, but thats not the point. You should have a fight with crazy col to settle this once and for all, or you could just go to bed crying...
One day Col, you're gonna say something that's gonna get you into sooo many problems.
Maybe you'll get fired from your job. Maybe you'll get beaten up.
But if you keep saying things like you do without thinking, you're gonna get into a massive problem one day.
And as you can see I'm deeply offended about you calling me a mongoose. I'm going to cry myself to sleep now.
Have fun.
Maybe you'll get fired from your job. Maybe you'll get beaten up.
But if you keep saying things like you do without thinking, you're gonna get into a massive problem one day.
And as you can see I'm deeply offended about you calling me a mongoose. I'm going to cry myself to sleep now.
Have fun.
He said something about me as well, I don't really care about that either.
I'm not worried about what you said, but other people might get annoyed
I'm not worried about what you said, but other people might get annoyed
Mr. No shoes wrote:
> Ok, fair enough, as i said before i've only seen you a few times
> before, an col was being rude then.
Don't worry, sometimes I can be insensitive and a jerk, but other times I post alright stuff. It dosn't bother me if Phillip the mongoose thinks im a gimp, it dosn't bother me at all.
> Ok, fair enough, as i said before i've only seen you a few times
> before, an col was being rude then.
Don't worry, sometimes I can be insensitive and a jerk, but other times I post alright stuff. It dosn't bother me if Phillip the mongoose thinks im a gimp, it dosn't bother me at all.
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