Oncoming death

I was on my way to Walmart after work to get soap (gots to stay clean!), and I saw a car sitting in the middle of the road at an intersection, perpendicular to oncoming traffic. My immediate thought was, "that's not good.", followed by "what the heck?" followed by "that's a very dangerous place for a car." Cars were just turning around it and going on their way. It turned out to be a girl who had her battery die on her, killing the car in the intersection, according to what she told me. I had her throw it into neutral and pushed the car onto the shoulder of the road. She got it started and I suggested that it might be the alternator, not the battery. After thinking upon it all night, I think it's more likely that her car simply stalled out. When the engine was running it sounded like it was going to quit about any time. She said she'd paid $400 dollars to have the battery replaced (!!) (with gold bricks!?!? I hope there's more that went into that repair or there's some seriously shady shop around these parts.). I regret not taking a little more time to try and help diagnosis the problem. I was anxious about my car being on the shoulder in the flow of traffic.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why one would just go around a car in that situation. I suppose if you don't know anything about cars, you might not want to get involved, but this is such an obviously dangerous situation that I would think it would be obvious to try and do something, anything, considering that oncoming death is a realistic possibility with every car that approaches. I just don't get it. Pushing a car onto the shoulder of the road is the most basic of emergency car skills. Anyone and everyone can do it and has probably seen it done or participated in such an event if they have made it to the age of 18. How is it that I was the first person to stop and enact this most basic of skills??

Anyway, I sure hope she works it out with her car without spending oodles and gobs of money chasing false solutions.

I got the sadness really heavy right now.

I've had a thousand things to say, mostly rants about this and that.

Right now, Sheryl Crow's Lullaby for Wyatt is hitting the right chords right now.
She's actually a pretty damn good songwriter, though she never gets the credit. Maybe not a stellar lyricist, but she's got the changes.

Here's something to think on:

McDonald's - automation
Wendy's - homestyle/gourmet
Coca-Cola - a classic system
Pepsi - still kinda hasn't figured it out.

Employee training videos are one of the best things you can do for your new employee even though every new employee thinks they're a gigantic waste of time.