A Series of Unfortunate Events Part 5

While waiting another man is rolled in on a gurney and transferred to a bed near his bed. The staff hooks him up to the monitoring equipment and leaves the room. The man rolls over in his bed to face Jason.

"What screwed up your day and put you in here?"
Jason barely hears the man strain to say this to him and turns over to him a bit confused.

"Wha-?"

The man takes a deep breath as if gathering himself from the pain that he is in.
"What the fuck happened to you?"

Jason mutters back.
"A damn car accident. But I wasn't in a car when it happened"

The man takes another breath before speaking.
"Damn that's fucked up"

"Yeah, tell me about it. But apparently not being in a car makes me very lucky because my car was unrecognizable. The only way you could tell that thing might have been a car was because it was on the freeway."
The man chuckles a little and chokes because of the pain.

"That's ironic. Real fucking ironic. I think that's what I hit after I went through the windshield of the piece of shit rental my brother was driving. I literally took the whole fucking windshield with me. I swear the piece of shit was taped on the thing…"
On hearing this, Jason tried to sit up in astonishment but the pain in his head lays him back down and he grunts out an astonished
"What the fuck?!"

"Yeah, the 105 freeway crack-up right? That's the one I was in and I saw the BMW logo on what I guess was the back of a metal ball on the side of the road right before I smacked into it. It was half pinched by a big red truck"
The man looks towards Jason in anticipation of a reply.
While squinting his eyes and holding his head Jason, in a near whisper responds with a "Holy fuck"

"Yeah you're telling me guy. I took my fucking seat belt off to grab something in the back seat of the car and next thing you know I'm chewing on your Bimmer for a hot second then I'm being rolled into this place. definitely not my idea of a good Friday afternoon. From what I heard going on coming into the hospital, I guess being injured isn't too bad cus some poor kid didn't receive a scratch but apparently his whole family is in here dying somewhere. My brother ate the steering wheel for lunch too cus the gotdamn airbag didn’t go off. "
He pauses briefly as he reflects for a moment.

"How the fuck I'm not completely retarded is beyond me, cus my head feel like I was hit hard enough to be sent back to the stone age."
The man tries to laugh at his own joke but it hurts too much to do so. Jason sees this and begins to laugh also, but he too is in too much pain to do so. The man can't help but laugh at Jason's misfortune in light of his and the two painfully laugh together for a few minutes.