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...carjacked with my kids in my car in my driveway. Within a week we moved to Northern California...
...India changes. My first experience with home delivery was quick, efficient, and wonderfully exotic. When my fridge arrived that afternoon it came strapped to the wooden tray of a three-wheeled rickshaw, towering above the rider and wobbling a bit from side to side as he cycled up the driveway...
...couple of bags of crackers enthused. I joined him and another friend to add to the organized chaos on the street outside his apartment in a well-to-do Delhi suburb. Neighbors on both sides were already well into detonation mode. A couple of kids stood in the next driveway lighting a series of little "bombs" and throwing them out into the road where they would sit for a second and then burst open with a cracking bang. No light, no pretty stream of sparks, just an explosion. The noises from across the city reminded me of my time...
...family next door had joined the two boys in the driveway now, and were lighting sparklers and smaller fireworks and laughing whenever a fiery rocket got stuck in a tree or went off course, which was most of the time. I wished them happy Diwali and they returned the salutation, perhaps amused to be sharing the ritual fireworks display with foreigners. After a while they headed inside and I headed home. The explosions continued for the next 24 hours, rumbling on across the city like aftershocks from some enormous earthquake...
...that people are stuck somewhere and have to endure horrible things--or indeed, do horrible things to each other--to escape. The more deviant and repulsive the treatment, the better. Bousman, who directed the later Saw films, says he got inspiration for that meat-locker scene from shoveling the driveway during endless Kansas winters. "I always thought I was gonna die 'cause it was so cold outside," says Bousman. "What happened if you were stuck outside with no clothes on? The ideas start off in the real world, and then we take them beyond...