Tuesday, October 9, 2012

A Helping Hand

Gary said the other night, he and two other Americans were headed home. The two others were ahead of him in the road a ways and as he came around a corner, he saw them carrying what appeared to be an unconscious older gentleman. Behind him was an older woman screaming wildly, carring a bicycle wheel. One could only assume that the man had been hit while on his bicycle. Gary said that there are zero traffic laws there and most people just drive, ride, walk wherever they feel like. Anyway, Gary stopped to help. Turns out that the man had NOT been hit on his bike. He was extremely drunk and had passed out in the middle of the road. The screaming woman behind him was his wife, angry at him for being drunk and not getting himself home. The bicycle wheel? Apparently some treasure she had found on the walk home.  They did eventually get the drunk man and his screaming wife home. Turns out, the Veterinarian had seen the man earlier and had moved him from the middle of the road and propped him up against a road sign as he wasn't quite sure what to do with him. Gary has stories like this every day.. There is most definatley not a lack of excitement in Mglin, Russia.

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