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It was a short story about a young boy who died on his birthday, which led Angela to decide to quit driving, inspired by the regret of possibly being the cause of such an accident.
Okay so Raymond Carver died at age 50 but before he died he was one of the truly great American fiction writers and his genre was the short story I think he died of maybe lung cancer but he was a ragi...
— Episode: 152. What’s the Worst Kind of Regret?
Episode: 152. What’s the Worst Kind of Regret?
It was a short story about a young boy who died on his birthday, which led Angela to decide to quit driving, inspired by the regret of possibly being the cause of such an accident.
Okay so Raymond Carver died at age 50 but before he died he was one of the truly great American fiction writers and his genre was the short story I think he died of maybe lung cancer but he was a raging alcoholic he had actually a very tumultuous life but let me just tell you about the cautionary tale that a small good thing was for me. In brief a small good thing is the story of a little boy who dies on his birthday gets hit by a hit and run driver I read this story I think I was in my I want to say my early 20s like I had a license to drive a car but I you know Oles was a little insecure about my driving ability I read that story Mike and in that moment I said as soon as I don't have to drive a car I'm going to stop driving because I never want to be the driver who kills a small child who steps off a curb on their birthday and you know I couldn't have anticipated but then Uber was invented and whenever Uber came to Philadelphia whatever that day was I should google it that was the day I stopped driving I have not driven a car since it's got to be at least I think a decade so here is a story that is a story of regret but it was the regret that I avoided I guess it was a regret of action that I avoided by reading a Raymond Carver short story I actually have read that story and now remember I regret that you made me feel bad but I didn't know who Raymond Carver was so you didn't either do anything or not do anything you have just placed yourself in a point of total abdication of responsibility and that you will never have to be in that situation