Subj : Re: Cars
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Tue Sep 03 2019 16:26:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-01-19  06:27 <=-

 > And fortunately the van stopped before running over you.... Good thing
 > it was still driveable, too...  :)

 JM> That's true.  It just didn't look as good as before.

And since it was a rental, you didn't have to deal with the aftermath so
much, either... :)

 JM> I've been in a few accidents over the years, being the hittee not
 JM> the hitter.
 JM> One time in college after a rain another student was giving me a
 JM> ride to my car and joked he was going to hit it.  Now I had parked in
 JM> a new lot, which was mostly grass and mud.
 JM> His Bug slid and did hit my passenger door.  It only caved in the
 JM> door of my Falcon and I was able to pop that out later with a rubber
 JM> hammer and no lasting damage.  
 JM> He was so apologetic over that, wanting to pay the repair bill, etc.

Bet he never joked like that again... <G>  Good that it wasn't that big
a deal...  :)

 JM> Plus there were several times when delivering produce the vans
 JM> were hit when another driver ran a red light, rear-ended, etc.  

I've had a number of accidents over the years... most of them other
people (or animals) hitting me... and mostly not too serious...

 JM> Never been in a serious accident, thankfully.

I've had a couple semi-serious ones, but not too bad.... worst one was
when I was in college, and a parked truck was where it shouldn't have
been... broke my lower jaw against my steering wheel... so I got a
"free" brace on that jaw... orthodontics inadvertantly... :) 

ttyl      neb

.... I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.

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