{"id":9623,"date":"2009-08-07T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2009-08-07T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T01:47:41","slug":"i-got-into-a-fender-bender-in-beverly-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"I Got Into A Fender-Bender In Beverly Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oy, this is all so embarrassing!<\/p>\n

Until I opened — on my Blackberry — this morning’s Los Angeles Times, I didn’t realize that Sonia Sotomayor’s elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court was anything to celebrate.<\/p>\n

This I saw the headline: "New York celebrates Sotomayor’s confirmation<\/a>"<\/p>\n

Wow. All of New York is celebrating? Why? I know people in New York. I wonder if they are celebrating. It turns out they weren’t.<\/p>\n

Then I pondered the deep significance of the first Puerto Rican going on the Supreme Court and I felt an excitement unknown to me since Black History month.<\/p>\n

As I opened my eyes to the glories of racial diversity, I met a couple of nice ladies wearing "Wise Latina" t-shirts and I just went lost control.<\/p>\n

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Oy, the shame! I reached for a lithium tablet to calm my troubled waters but popped a Levitra by accident. After four hours, the effects had not worn off, so I got in the car and drove myself to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Last time I do that with a serious medical condition! I should’ve called an ambulance.<\/p>\n

Making my way through Beverly Hills, taunted by scantily clad babes, I scraped cars on Cannon Drive with a young woman driving her dad’s black BMW. A marriage and family therapist, she was getting married this weekend.<\/p>\n

Mazal tov! I guess I broke the glass a little early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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