Sad is,....
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:52 pm
Sad is having to go to a 20 year old boys wake today.
I worked with Robert for a few years when he had just got out of high school at 18. He wanted to learn as much as he could about cars and had a desire for all things fast.
He was quick to learn and soon had built his own little sporty Honda civic with racing cams and loud exhaust like most guys his age like.
He always had a smile, and his favorite saying was " it will be alright!" no matter what, he always had a positive outlook.
He was so full of energy I could never keep him busy enough.
He used to do back flips off the top of the dumpster at work, he was like a stunt man.
He never left home, never got an apartment of his own, never got married, and was on the waiting list to become a Florida State Trooper. He was 21 days away from turning 21 and even had a count down clock on his My Space site.
He and his parents were locals at the Church I attend and he always helped out anyone who needed it. He always was respectful and never hurt anyone.
The second month he was at work with us he wrecked his bike and hurt his leg pretty bad, he was in a cast for 7 weeks and had to pay his own hospital bills. I told him then he needed to be careful, but his reply to me was, it will be alright!
This past Sunday I was working on the roof line of my project trailer I have shared so much about with so many of you on here, and the phone rang. His best friend who he got a job with us as well, called me to tell me that Robert had come upon a car wreck that a drunk driver had been racing in and had hit the center barrier wall, when Robert attempted to go around the car, he did not see the 16 year old girl, run out from the passenger side, and he hit her head on killing her, and throwing him and he also died.
I was in complete shock and disbelief.
How could something so tragic happen? Why was a 16 year old girl out at 3:00 a.m. with 26 year old previously convicted of a DUI and who again was driving drunk? Why did Robert not slow down when he came upon the accident? He must have been going pretty fast from what the Medical Examiner told me.
The Medical Examiner is a customer at my job and just happened to come in yesterday and I asked him if he had heard about Robert and he said yes, that he is the one who worked on Robert and the 16 year old girl.
I realize this is not the normal off the wall topics usually discussed on here, but I am in shock, and I am angry and confused and wanted to vent. so please accept my apologies if I overstepped my bounds here. I merely wanted to talk to the only group of people I feel comfortable talking to.
He will be sorely missed... the world is a better place for having known him,.. but a sadder place with him gone.
May he rest easy.
Tim
I worked with Robert for a few years when he had just got out of high school at 18. He wanted to learn as much as he could about cars and had a desire for all things fast.
He was quick to learn and soon had built his own little sporty Honda civic with racing cams and loud exhaust like most guys his age like.
He always had a smile, and his favorite saying was " it will be alright!" no matter what, he always had a positive outlook.
He was so full of energy I could never keep him busy enough.
He used to do back flips off the top of the dumpster at work, he was like a stunt man.
He never left home, never got an apartment of his own, never got married, and was on the waiting list to become a Florida State Trooper. He was 21 days away from turning 21 and even had a count down clock on his My Space site.
He and his parents were locals at the Church I attend and he always helped out anyone who needed it. He always was respectful and never hurt anyone.
The second month he was at work with us he wrecked his bike and hurt his leg pretty bad, he was in a cast for 7 weeks and had to pay his own hospital bills. I told him then he needed to be careful, but his reply to me was, it will be alright!
This past Sunday I was working on the roof line of my project trailer I have shared so much about with so many of you on here, and the phone rang. His best friend who he got a job with us as well, called me to tell me that Robert had come upon a car wreck that a drunk driver had been racing in and had hit the center barrier wall, when Robert attempted to go around the car, he did not see the 16 year old girl, run out from the passenger side, and he hit her head on killing her, and throwing him and he also died.
I was in complete shock and disbelief.
How could something so tragic happen? Why was a 16 year old girl out at 3:00 a.m. with 26 year old previously convicted of a DUI and who again was driving drunk? Why did Robert not slow down when he came upon the accident? He must have been going pretty fast from what the Medical Examiner told me.
The Medical Examiner is a customer at my job and just happened to come in yesterday and I asked him if he had heard about Robert and he said yes, that he is the one who worked on Robert and the 16 year old girl.
I realize this is not the normal off the wall topics usually discussed on here, but I am in shock, and I am angry and confused and wanted to vent. so please accept my apologies if I overstepped my bounds here. I merely wanted to talk to the only group of people I feel comfortable talking to.
He will be sorely missed... the world is a better place for having known him,.. but a sadder place with him gone.
May he rest easy.
Tim