Ira Glass

I went with her, and she, very ordinarily, dialed her cell phone.

When I returned at 1.10, I discovered that she had already climbed up on the bridge railing.

I restrained her and forced her onto her moped.

She is from Nanjing's Jianye District.

Her last name is Zhao, and today she's 45 years old.

Because her husband, surnamed Li, and 51 years old, is violent towards her and mistreats her, she thought killing herself would be better.

However, she is silent when she thinks of her 15-year-old son.

March 21, 2010.

Yesterday at 3.05 p.m., I saved a young man in the middle of the bridge.

He had drunk a lot of alcohol and was planning to jump over the bridge railing.

I at once restrained him and dragged him to safety.

As we spoke, I learned his situation was actually quite funny.

He was thinking about jumping because last year, his wife promised to start returning to him 200 yuan of his monthly 1,400 yuan salary to spend as he pleased.

But she had not honored her promise.

Yesterday afternoon, he started drinking with his friends, and the more he drank, the angrier he got.

He believed that killing himself would make her realize that not one cent had come to him.

He then said another funny thing.

His mother's colleague said that the bridge is haunted and could take one's soul.

I said, haha, it is haunted by drunk ghosts.

And I took him home.