This morning several of us were called into our
manager's office as he had something he wanted to talk
to us about. This has often happened in the past as we
shifted charters, or took on new projects, but I could
tell today was different from the look on my manager's
face.
He painfully unfolded a story of a tragedy that
occurred last night, which not only involved us directly
and Intel as a whole, but oddly enough LBCs, and that's
why I'm passing this along, in the hopes that it might
make a difference to someone out there.
Last night in Pleasanton, California, an accident
occurred where a replica 427 Cobra left the road at
speed, overturned into a ditch and burst into flames.
The driver of the car is in the hospital with serious
burns and is not expected to be released for at least
6wks. The passenger of the car was fatally injured.
The significance of this is that I worked with
both of these people, the owner of the Cobra sitting
close enough to me that I can stand up and see a
picture of the car on his cube wall. I saw them both
last night as we all worked late. Me, I left to go home
& work on my LBC, my co-workers left to drive theirs.
It made me wonder how many times I have let my LBC
sing her song loud without a care in the world, and how
close I could've been to a tragedy without even
thinking about it. I'm sure they weren't thinking about
it.
This is dedicated to the memory of Bob DeVore.
we'll miss you-
Daren Stone
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