At 11:20 PM 5/10/01 -0400, JDG wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
Perhaps somebody who works "regular hours" (i.e., gets off around 5 pm)
stopped at the bar around the corner for a few for the road. Or maybe he
got fired that day, so he had both a reason to get plastered and some extra
time to do so.
-- Ronn! :)
