One Day

I read One Day by Gene Weingarten. This author chose a date at random. He went to a restaurant and had one person choose from 31 pieces of paper for the day, another person choose the month, and a third person pick the year between 1969 and 1989. From there he would write a book about what happened on that day. He wasn't too happy that he got the date December 28, 1986 because Sundays are slow news days and the time between Christmas and New Years is also a slow news time period. I was happy though because that is my birthday which is why I read this book. I don't remember that particular birthday for me. I am sure I was busy with a two year old and a six year old to car for. The stories that happened on that day are incredible. He starts out early in the morning. A firefighter comes to a burning house and saves a baby boy who is burned terrible but survives. A young girls is playing a video game at a friend's house that she is not allowed to play at home. She beats the entire game and changes her attitude about life. She grows up to write a blog called dooce.com. A couple meet at a bar and exchange numbers. The next day they meet. The day after that they decide to get married and announce it to everyone. Twenty years later they are still together. A rogue California Highway Patrol officer kills a young girl and hides her body. A man murders his girlfriend and then commits suicide. Later that morning his heart is transplanted into a young mother's body. Evidently it took six years and hundreds of interviews to get all this information and verify the accuracy of what he was told. This book proves no day is ordinary if you dig deep enough.