Tuesday, March 01, 2011
What's the opposite of hysterical?
Last Sunday a Mexican criminal (sorry for the redundancy) decided for unknown reasons to steal a truck. It didn't work......
That's the opposite of hysterical! I don't think there's a common phrase that quite describes it. Practical, stoic, matter-of-fact, hard-working .... not quite enough.
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Sidenote: If Garcia's attorney is halfway smart, he'll plead out fast. Technically the crime isn't overly serious since Garcia gave up before completion.... but I guarantee he won't want to face a jury.
I've done jury duty twice, hated it both times. This case actually makes me want to serve again, just on the chance I might get to convict Garcia. And I suspect this feeling is not unique. ¶ 5:41 AM
Sunday started out as a normal morning for Leigha Wavra and her husband; they were up early delivering copies of The Spokesman Review. Then, as her husband was at a door delivering a paper, someone jumped in their truck and stole it while she was still inside.
Wavra and her husband deliver The Spokesman Review out of their pickup truck and they have a system. She sits under the canopy in the bed of the pickup and folds the papers while her husband takes them to the door.
"Its a good extra job," she said.
On Sunday, as her husband was at a door delivering a paper, Wavra's morning routine got much more exciting when someone other than her husband jumped in the truck with her.
"This guy just walks up and he opens the truck door," Leigha said. "And he gets in, and I start screaming, 'Hello, get out of our truck.' Then my husband runs down, opens the door and yells 'Get out of the truck; it isn't your truck.' Then the guy puts it into gear and takes off down Garland with me in the truck."'
The truck takes off, Leigha's husband running after it while she was inside the truck screaming.
"He finally started to kind of slow down, like he was gonna let me out, and he's like, 'Just get out, just get out."'
The carjacker, Adrian Garcia, abandoned the truck a few blocks away and was arrested.
Within an hour, Wavra and her husband had their truck back and finished their newspaper route.
"It was a wasted hour," she said. "It was time we could have spent delivering our papers."
That's the opposite of hysterical! I don't think there's a common phrase that quite describes it. Practical, stoic, matter-of-fact, hard-working .... not quite enough.
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Sidenote: If Garcia's attorney is halfway smart, he'll plead out fast. Technically the crime isn't overly serious since Garcia gave up before completion.... but I guarantee he won't want to face a jury.
I've done jury duty twice, hated it both times. This case actually makes me want to serve again, just on the chance I might get to convict Garcia. And I suspect this feeling is not unique. ¶ 5:41 AM
