Personal anecdote by TH!!!

[Guest Anonymous]

The Thoughtless Housewife is generally not an anecdote-telling kind of gal, so I am not sure what to make of her September 30 post entitled, "A Car Swerved Off the Road."

The most interesting fact we learn is that, in her 20s, Housewife worked as a newspaper reporter in Camden, NJ!

Anyway, the anecdote itself is weird. She talks about how she was driving on a winter's night on a 4-lane highway near Camden. She then goes on to emphasize that Camden was/is one of the most dangerous cities in America. A car swerves off the road in front of her. She immediately pulls over to see if the driver of the vehicle was hurt. The driver was a roughly 30-year-old black man, who was angry at first because he thought she had hit him. The highway was deserted, but her only concern was whether the black man was okay. It turned out that he had skidded on some black ice. She then helped him up even though, as she points out, she is a small woman and he is a large man. He thanked her.

So I'd love your thoughts. What the hell? This just seems so random and apropos of nothing. I think she is trying to prove what a good and courageous person she is, that she didn't even hesitate to stop and help despite the potential danger to herself. The whole thing is just very odd. I looove to tell anecdotes, but this would never count to me as a particularly interesting anecdote unless it related to something under discussion.

[kaetrin]

I try not to read the TH, but my conspiratorial sort of thought is that Lawrence Auster reads here and decided, per our remarks on the other threads, to increase the personal anecdotes in hopes of making "Laura" appear more feminine and differentiated from him. Still a weird choice of stories, though.

[gustava]

At least she didn't refer to him as "colored."