An underappreciated disaster...kinda like my birth

I just saw something about us on Yahoo news. Not that that makes it "news" since Yahoo runs shit about 5-legged cats and the top ten ways to flirt online, but still...kinda cool that it's on there.

I was asleep in the wee hours of the morning when I heard a really loud "boom." It rattled our window so much that I thought it was going to break. "Goddamn garbage truck," I yelled. A sentiment echoed by Cory, who was asleep in a tiny shoebox. The dumpster was about 15 yards away from our window and sometimes the garbage trucks would be loud enough to make the windows rattle. We woke up and started flipping through the channels a little while later. We came upon CNN where we found out that the Space Shuttle Columbia had just exploded over the Nacogodches area. Being the fucked up, morbid people that we are, we immediately got on the phone and called some friends to go "look for shit." The FBI issued a warning to not pick things up because of some crazy space contamination or some bullshit to keep kids from fucking with NASA debris. Did that stop our buddy Rambo? (Yes, it's his real name.) No, no it didn't. He stole a piece and was promptly turned in by his roommate (who later found his car covered in syrup and flour. Rambo was nothing if not a classy gentleman.) The FBI searched Rambo's room several times. Rambo thought it would be funny to leave them notes that said things like, "You push poop back in." Sure it was funny at the time, but he later got something like a year of community service.

The piece that fell behind Commercial Bank was the biggest we saw. It's impact put a pretty large dent in a dumpster. All the other pieces we saw could have easily came from a car or something. It was kind of a weird day. We practiced softball (go Woodpeckers!) while blackhawk helicopters hovered over and search parties combed the town. I'm pretty sure that's was affected our season. We only won two games. It wasn't because we sucked. No sir. It was that space shuttle.

The Yahoo article was good, but a bit on the dramatic side. Reading it reminds me of a joke I heard on that gloomy day in February. What's NASA stand for? (Need another seven astronauts. Ah, an oldie but definitely a goodie.)