Subj : Re: Cars
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Mon Sep 09 2019 09:24:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-04-19  06:43 <=-

Replying from the Pond, on 9 Sept, about 9:25am....
 
 > 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> One day the chief returned from a conference in a state car (the
 JM> university has a fleet for things like that) and the front end all
 JM> banged up.  He said he had hit a deer and I asked if he knew it was
 JM> illegal to hunt deer with a car.  :)
 JM> He was not amused.
 
Nor would I have been.... ;)  Seemed to me that the deer were hunting
ME.... sure wasn't my idea.... :)

 > 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... :) 

 JM> Friend of mine and his bride-to-be were in an accident many years
 JM> ago and a couple of her front teeth were knocked out when she hit the
 JM> dashboard.  (Along with some other minor injuries).
 JM> He always joked it was cheaper to marry her than to pay for the
 JM> dental work.  (They are still married, 50 years this December)

So actually, that was a success story....  :)

ttyl       neb

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