An airplane crashed in the fast lane on the freeway right in front of me and then I caught a common cold. Both really weird experiences, both shocking, both so out side of normal that I am not sure how to react to them. The first one is just a happenstance experience where a small aircraft pilot lost control of his plane and used the freeway that I was on as a temporary landing space. The second one is this visitor from circa 2017 in which we get sick but not from COVID.
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