Title: Not Quite Dead!
Date: 15 December 2001

Susan and I were at the hospital visiting a friend and his wife. His wife was sick, and Susan decided that the best thing to do was put her out of her misery. I wasn't entirely sure she was that sick, but it seemed possible so I moved to the other side of the room and stayed out of the conversation. Finally the decision was made, and Susan took a large syringe with a long needle and stuck it in her chest to kill her.

Two cops arrived about an hour later. They were total imbeciles. They picked up the syringe, pulled it apart, dropped in on the ground, and asked some superficial questions while they sat cross-legged on the floor facing partially away from where everybody was. They left suddenly and we never heard from them again, although we heard a rumour that there was no case against us. Susan decided to move to Hawaii until everybody got over the incident.

As it turned out, she hadn't killed the woman after all, but the attempt had left her with severe brain damage and motor skill problems. She required special seats to be installed in cars just to ride in them.

Months later there was a birthday party for me with all my friends. Everybody was standing up and one by one they were making toasts to me that included sarcastic comments about something I had done in the past; there was lots of laughter. As a response to one of the comments, one of the guys said "Just like that time you almost killed that woman!" and everybody howled in laughter. Everybody seemed to be having a good time, but I was upset that they thought it was me who had attempted to kill her when, in fact, I had tried so hard to stay out of it.