That was one of his go-to lines, “I can’t believe it,” and it was often associated with something that was bad, but he managed to say it in a way that made it sound like we got caught doing something mischievous. He had a great sense of the absurd and surprising in life, because he had seen so much of it. And then we looked out the window to see where we were. The ambulance was making great time to the hospital because it was going down the cleared path of the inaugural parade that was about to begin.
