Two Old Ladies Driving To Their Death -- A Story That Brought Two Friends Together

Sometimes something strikes you funny and you know it shouldn't but you laugh anyway.

When I see someone fall down a set of steps, my initial reaction is surprise. I generally let out a gasp or a worried "Oh!" as a gut response. This is then almost always followed up by laughter as people who fall down stairs are hilarious.

The person may be hurt, but that doesn't stop me from laughing at them.

When I started my first job, there was a young fella there that arbitrarily didn't like me. He claims that it had something to do with college when it was really just about his jealousy that he didn't get into the same program I did... (Go Eagleton!)

He didn't want to like me... until the day we bonded over something seemingly horrible.

I read a story in the paper about two old ladies who were in their parked car at the Claridge Casino in Atlantic City. The one woman must have hit her gas pedal wrong or something because her car shot forward.

It shot forward so much that it somehow broke through the concrete wall and dropped 5 stories to the street.

Both ladies died...

I read this story in the office and I burst out laughing... I couldn't help myself... I was familiar with the Claridge parking lot and that gas pedal must have been pretty firmly planted for the car to go THROUGH a concrete wall.

My friend asked me what I was laughing about so hard since the place where we worked was NOT about laughing or having a good time.

I showed him, he cocked his eyebrow and then started laughing too.

The rest is history...we have been friends forever... in fact... I am talking to him over IM right now... as I write this...

Who would have thought that the rather horrible death of two elderly women could have created such a wonderful friendship?