"...It's the fall."
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davidkevin's post here.
No, He Never Got a Chance to Thank Him
I read this story in the newspaper almost twenty years ago. People have trouble believing it when I tell it to them...but I have no doubt about it being true.
It was somewhere in one of the Carolinas, I forget which one now. The motorcycle rider had taken the curve too quickly, as we who ride bikes are sometimes wont to do, and had dropped the bike. While the bike remained by the roadside the rider had tumbled over and past it, down the hill out of sight. All that was visible was the bike on its side.
Cars and trucks flowed past, their occupants ignoring the dead bike. All but one.
In the back of the limousine, heading to the airport after a speaking engagement, was an elderly actor, best known for a role he had played decades earlier. He saw the bike lying there and told the driver to pull over. We don't know why he did -- maybe living in the skin of his television character for that long had given him a sixth sense about such things. He and the driver got out, walked over to the bike, looked past it, and saw the rider down the hill, unconscious. They climbed down, carried him up (although elderly, the actor was still spry, working out every day), and the driver used the car telephone (still an expensive rarity in those days) to call an ambulance.
When the rider woke up, he couldn't believe the masked face he saw -- at first he thought he was hallucinating -- or the familiar voice which said, "Rest easy, son, help is on the way." The ambulance personnel couldn't believe who had called them, either, but they shook it off and went to work on the injured rider. And as they worked, the elderly actor got back into his limousine and had his driver quietly roll away, leaving only his "calling card" with the rider: a silver bullet.
The incident wouldn't have made it into the press at all except that the ambulance crew told the story; the elderly actor never spoke about it -- that wasn't the way he did things.
As most of you have guessed, the elderly actor was Clayton Moore, and he had once again acted according to the Code of his famous role, the greatest hero of the American West who never was.
And there's a motorcyclist somewhere in the Carolinas with an amazing story to tell, the real-life story of how at a time of mortal peril he was rescued...
...by the Lone Ranger.
Edit: Okay, my HTML skills need work today.
davidkevin's post here.No, He Never Got a Chance to Thank Him
I read this story in the newspaper almost twenty years ago. People have trouble believing it when I tell it to them...but I have no doubt about it being true.
It was somewhere in one of the Carolinas, I forget which one now. The motorcycle rider had taken the curve too quickly, as we who ride bikes are sometimes wont to do, and had dropped the bike. While the bike remained by the roadside the rider had tumbled over and past it, down the hill out of sight. All that was visible was the bike on its side.
Cars and trucks flowed past, their occupants ignoring the dead bike. All but one.
In the back of the limousine, heading to the airport after a speaking engagement, was an elderly actor, best known for a role he had played decades earlier. He saw the bike lying there and told the driver to pull over. We don't know why he did -- maybe living in the skin of his television character for that long had given him a sixth sense about such things. He and the driver got out, walked over to the bike, looked past it, and saw the rider down the hill, unconscious. They climbed down, carried him up (although elderly, the actor was still spry, working out every day), and the driver used the car telephone (still an expensive rarity in those days) to call an ambulance.
When the rider woke up, he couldn't believe the masked face he saw -- at first he thought he was hallucinating -- or the familiar voice which said, "Rest easy, son, help is on the way." The ambulance personnel couldn't believe who had called them, either, but they shook it off and went to work on the injured rider. And as they worked, the elderly actor got back into his limousine and had his driver quietly roll away, leaving only his "calling card" with the rider: a silver bullet.
The incident wouldn't have made it into the press at all except that the ambulance crew told the story; the elderly actor never spoke about it -- that wasn't the way he did things.
As most of you have guessed, the elderly actor was Clayton Moore, and he had once again acted according to the Code of his famous role, the greatest hero of the American West who never was.
And there's a motorcyclist somewhere in the Carolinas with an amazing story to tell, the real-life story of how at a time of mortal peril he was rescued...
...by the Lone Ranger.
Edit: Okay, my HTML skills need work today.
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Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 09:51 pm (UTC)Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 09:59 pm (UTC)Also, I recognize you from the ADD communities! Small world.
Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 10:07 pm (UTC)(why i don't just ask..... i dunno, i'm weird that way)
so, how was your day?
Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 10:19 pm (UTC)My day was...well, it started too damn early, that's all. I hate 8am classes.
Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 10:32 pm (UTC)involved Google, My Network Places, LJ interest Searches, and alot of reading.
o.O; don't ask.
How did you get KittyStrophy before me danggummit?
Hah, i was still asleep at 8, i only have 3 classes a week :p
Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 10:53 pm (UTC)I took it off, but obviously that doesn't totally work. Hah. People still find me.
Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-15 11:26 pm (UTC)I'm pretty open about it online, and there are so many mentions of it made through this journal that I'd pretty much have to totally scrap this one and start over in order to hide it. I don't want to do that; I like being open about it with the people I know online.
But for various reasons, I'm not open about it at school. I don't really want people to know when I can't control what they'll do about it/to me; at least not while I'm in school. If a future employer gives me shit, I can leave and find another job, but getting into a school with good programs is something nobody'd want to mess up.
I'm not really worried about it, since you seem cool; I just figured I'd mention that if you hadn't noticed already, and request that you be discreet.
Re: Shout out!
Date: 2006-02-16 06:37 am (UTC)*shrug* people are people, as long as you are who you want to be, then that's all that mattered. so many people are worried about "being themselves" and trying to figure out "who they are". You know what you are doing, you are being who you want to be. so it all good.