C& S

Many years ago, on the night before the new year, I had just gotten clean and sober. I was so grateful, I felt a need to give back, so I decided to venture out and patrol the streets to assist people who needed it.
That night, I assisted many and was feeling good about myself,so I headed home. I was driving East on Madison Street, somewhere around Western, when I heard what sounded like a cannon blast, I saw ahead of me, smoke and debris in the air.
Heeere I come to save the daaay!
Somebody ran Straight into a light pole in front of what would be the United Center. The car was wrapped around the pole like a cartoon, and the pole hadn't moved an inch!
I pull up to the scene as the passenger was opening his door. A boom box fell to the pavement. I looked in through the passenger's side and saw the steering wheel was distorted. The driver must have a crushed chest.
What the fuck happened, the driver was asking as he was turning the ignition.
It's not going to start, I said!
The engine was almost in his lap!
A passing bus driver said he would call the police and an ambulance.
Why we need the police, someone in the car moaned.
At that time, someone they knew or someone on the same page as the injured, wanted to know what had happened.
The driver started spinning some tale, the passerby then looked at me and angerly yelled, why you run them off the road!
I looked at him, like Really!!?
The driver corrected him.
They started speaking more silently and I saw the driver slip a gun to the passerby which disappeared under his clothes and he slipped off into the projects.
An ambulance showed ;no questions were asked ;it was obvious what had happened.
One of the paramedics was hard balling my car, probably to see if there be fresh damage.
The injuries were such, that the paramedics needed another ambulance, so another arrived and we all loaded the injured into the first ambulance and off they went, leaving me along as the New Year approached.
What the hell was i thinking!
I honestly believe I wouldn't do that today!
How things change!