This morning, on my way to work I got caught up in slowing traffic near the point were the A6 motorway changes into the A1. While I was slowing down I noticed the red X above one of the lanes and before I even could think aloud “probably an accident”, I got passed by an ambulance zooming by with all lights and sirens on. Obviously the accident just happened. After a minute or so I got close to the spot where it all happened. Just 100 yards before I got there, I could hear the dreaded sound of a helicopter, […]
Sorry hoor!
I just heared a very amusing story from a collegue that travels a lot to the US. Last summer he went to visit some relatives in Pensylvania. He met some other Dutch people on the plane that traveled with him from the airport to this little town. On their way, in a rental car, they accidently ignored a stop sign and got pulled over by a squad car. The officer asked his traveling companion, who was driving the car at that moment, for his drivers licence. He also asked him why he thought he got pulled over. Since in Holland […]
Fire!
This past week Wednesday evening (March 31st) turned out to be a scary evening. After I went out for dinner (Chinese) I arrived at my home at about 8:45pm. I changed clothes and slipped into my training suit and started to zap through the channels (nothing on as usual). Then at about 9:15pm my doorbell was ringing. I could here from the sound that someone was actually at my door and not downstairs (it rings differently and my camera turns on). So I went to see who it was. There was my next-door neighbor from number 109 (I’m 111). She […]