30 hours plus to Melbourne

Ok I thought I had issues getting to Melbourne after being trapped on the M5, then Virgin's IT system going down and the last straw with the Pakistian cab driver. Well my friends it gets better. Let me explain to you my brother's girlfriend.

The accident happened early Tuesday morning around 1am. My brother's girlfriend Tammy gets a call at 3am from his boss to inform her about the accident. One would think the obvious thing to do is call his family to inform them but no what does she do? She sits in bed crying for 6 hours straight. Once she got that out of her system, at 9am she wanders off to the nearest Flight centre to book herself a ticket to Melbourne, still not calling my parents to inform them of the accident.

She some how manages to book a flight at 4pm for herself. I still dont understand why she didnt book an earlier flight for herself. I'm assuming there should have been earlier flights unless they were all booked out.

Anyway she wanders back home to pack without paying for the flight. Even though she reserved the flight she agreed to pay for it at the airport for some reason?

Around 3pm my parents get a call from someone at my Brother's work informing them that their son has been in an accident and is in a critical condition. They refuse to give anymore details and hang up. My parents hit panic mode at this stage. Apparently my father starts crying while my mother decides to take charge and not panic as much. She calls her cousin to organise plane tickets to Melbourne on the first flight available.

Once the flights were booked my mum calls Tammy to see if she knows about the accident. Tammy informs her that she knew since 3am this morning but didnt call her beacause she didnt know what was going on and didnt want to tell her that she knew but didnt know what was happening. Who the hell doesnt call in an emergency like this?

Meanwhile my mum tells Tammy they have booked flights to Melbourne. Tammy tells her to book her a flight as well. I still dont understand this. Tammy had booked a flight for 4pm but she was still at home at 3pm when my mother called her. Anyways my mum calls my cousin back and books her a flight as well.

Obviously for some stupid reason Tammy decided not to catch the 4pm flight she booked and decided to meet my parents at the airport around 6:30pm. Maybe she was having round 2 of her crying fits?

Meanwhile my mother manages to find out what hospital my brother is at and calls them up. The hospital refuses to disclose any information to her stating he is currently in a comam waiting to be operated on.

So Tammy decides to get a lift from her friend to the airport. Tammy lives in Campbelltown. Most people would know the quickest way to the airport from the west is the M5. It would take you max 15 - 20 minutes. If it's peak hour traffic maybe a little more. For some reason Tammy's friend decides to go through Parramatta onto the M4 to get to the airport.

As they past parramatta on the M4 the car breaks down smack bang in the middle of peak hour traffic. Tammy storms out of the car calling my parents and demanding them to pick her up in the middle of the freeway. Those that know my parents would know they go to the airport like 3 hours in advance. My mum tells her that they are already at the airport and cant pick her up. My mum tells her to catch a cab.

So in a mad rush Tammy grabs her suitcase from the boot and starts walking the M4. I dont understand why she didnt try and flag down a car or cab. Actually I dont understand how she walked the entire M4. That's right my friends she walked the entire M4. Normal people would have taken the nearest exit. I'm think the sliverwater exit would have been the next exit to take but for some reason she decided to walk from Parramatta to Strathfield aka the end of M4. This out does me dragging a suitcase on a freeway in Pammukkale in the middle of the night after the bus dumped us there.

I'm not sure how long it took her to walk the entire M4 but she obviously missed that flight as well. In fact she missed all the flights that night and didnt arrive in Melbourne until the next morning.

Now lets recap. She found out at 3am Tuesday morning. She didnt arrive in Melbourne until Wednesday morning. Thats over 30 hours. Who the hell wastes that much time in an emergency? I could have gotten to Turkey faster.

We still dont know how long it took her to get to the airport from Strathfield. Infact we dont even know if she caught a cab, a train or walked. She only had $200 on her. She claims to have used $190 on flight to get to Melbourne. Which leaves her a total of $10 to get to the airport. Plus we dont know if she paid for the toll to get through on the M4! The question is would you have to pay the toll or use an etag?

I'm assuming she spent the night sleeping at the airport and some how still missed the morning flights due to Virgin's system going down. I think my grandmother and I got there before she did.

Finally when she arrives at the hospital she has a break down screaming about going on Today Tonight to reveal everything and tell people how there was no occupational health and safety used at the carnival.

She starts blurtting out that apparently the carnival runner hired some backpackers to work at the carnivale with no training at all. My mum decides to take her downstairs for a smoke to calm her down. I decide to follow them as well.

Were standing outside of the hospital when a bunch of camera crews start running into the hospital towards the lift. Tammy throws her ciggerate onto the street and starts running like a lunatic screaming that the camera crew are here for my brother and she starts chasing them in the hospital corridors.

We decide to let her be until she returns to the room to tell us that the camera crew came for someone else.

Meanwhile the updates on my brother's condition is good. Even though he has broken his ribs, fractured his kidney and squashed his small intestones (Which they has to cut 20cms off), the doctors finally reveal he will recover slowly.