A thought on the ending to Wednesday's episode of "The West Wing."
SPOILER WARNING, don't read if you want to watch it some day - that means
*you*, Julia! ;-)
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At the ending of the episode, a running gag is made out of the announcement
that there will be a major meeting come 9pm. The Senior Staff is then
dismissed to get dinner before the meeting. That means that this event
occurs no later than 8pm.
Immediately afterwards, the best boy receives a phone call that Mrs.
Laningham was killed by a drunk driver. Assuming that it takes at least
an hour for word of a fatal car accident to reach one's place of
employment, even at the White House, this places the time of the accident
no later than 7pm, and probably closer to 6pm.
So my question is, who gets killed by a drunk driver in the middle of rush
hour? I honestly don't have any stats on this, but my impression seems
to be that drunk driving is much more prevalent at much later hours.
And another thing, what was nice old Mrs. Laningham doing driving in
Southeast Washington? Maybe Potomoac is a little nicer than most, but
from what I have seen, Southeast is about the nastiest side of DC that
there is. My guess is that all of the secretaries at the White House are
living in either Northwest DC or Northern Virginia, and probably should
have been driving from the other side of the City.
Of course, perhaps there is more to this than there seems..... ;-)
JDG
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John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #3527685
"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of institutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
