Right Place Whatever the Time

The defense presented their case the next day. Deiter was over the legal limit, but not by much. Other factors played a role in the crash.  Martin, who’d accepted a plea deal, was much more at fault.

The defense argued that Deiter was a good kid in the wrong place at the wrong time. I thought he’d already been to the wrong place when he was at the party.  Had he gone to a ‘right place,’ any right place, he might not have been at the intersection at the wrong time. 

On the other hand, I thought, he could have been hit by a drunk driver coming home from church or football practice or a movie theater. Still, had he been sober, he might have avoided in the accident. Coming from the right place might have made a difference.

I thought the right place wasn’t always a place. Sometimes it was a state of mind, like being calm in the face of adversity, or being prepared for a disaster.  Coming from the right place made all the difference.

Today I’ll try to be in the right place.

Jury Duty © 2020 by Ken Montrose

Jury Duty is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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