Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Martina's avatar

Thank you for transcribing this!

I would bet that something happened in the car. It's always the unsolicited explanations that do it for me.

And we were around in there for a bit, I had asked her for a ride home, and we were in the car because my ride was leaving, and I wanted to stay at the party longer. And so then we ended up splitting up in the party because I had to find another ride when we got back into the party after leaving the car so that we could…um … I'm sorry,

1. Unsolicited explanation why she was in the car. 2. Unsolicited explanation about splitting up. But the biggest one: 3. after leaving the car. I call it a brain-anchor - her mind is "glued" to the car due to the emotional severity of an event, which is dominating her thinking at this moment, which has to be swatted away, hence LEAVING is mentioned, when it is nothing else but an unsolicited explanation. Of course she needs to leave the car when going back to the party. But she needs to practically tear her mind away from that event, so the brain produces bridging language, where it does not need to be.

Why she is throwing herself into this investigation as if her life depended on it, anybodys guess. Maybe an attention-seeking teenager, who knows.

I would conclude: something happened in the car, and she knows what happened in the car.

Expand full comment
JerkFace Killah's avatar

People at the party were using drugs that night (glow sticks = MDMA/"ecstasy") and Sami is sanitizing that aspect of the night for good reason. Far too many people - including police - hear drugs were involved and become disinterested. She also just didn't want to throw any of the many partygoers under the bus.

Expand full comment
6 more comments...

No posts