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Termyn8or -> RE: My Brothers wedding (5/29/2006 12:31:00 AM)
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People really need to learn how to drive. Even if you are going to drive drunk, know how ! When you drive you are piloting a 2,000 lb projectile. That means no rolling a joint, no having sex, and for me, no telephone.
You look ONE TIME into a car you hit and see kids, you will know exactly what I mean. That is why to drive defensively, the kids could be getting driven around by a nitwit, but is it there fault ?
If your care for humanity does not express itself in your driving habits, you need a wreck. An at fault wreck. Get that insurance rate cranked up to teach you a lesson.
OP, I hope that now you have had an intimate look at the carnage that can be caused so easily on the highway, that when you drive, you remember it every day. If you don't, you may well pass along the "favor" of getting hurt in a car wreck.
I have done things that'll put hair on your chest, curl it and then make it fall off. I have seen people die, and luckily it wasn't my fault. But when I slid (on the way to work) into a car with about one half my car's mass, and saw then those kids in there, my world changed.
Guns don't kill, people do. Cars don't kill, drivers do. There is the rare instance of freak brake failure but barring that if you drive a car, YOU are responsible for alot more than meets the eye.
You know a newborn baby in that car over there might grow up to be the foremost inventor of toys, and secretly give us the fountain of youth (most of us will be at least 60). Renew our vigor then whatewver pension plan we got will have to pay, longer ! With 'fixed' income we might be alright, depends on what it is 'fixed' at.
But then, it will not happen if take a Buick Roadmaster and mow them down in the little Ford Escort.
I was in a 1973 Electra 225 4 door, 455, I hit a 1973 Ford Maverick. I was on my way to work, no drinking. I could not stop. I got out into about a foot of water with ice undeneath. In a way I wish I would've taken off, but no. It would not be right. Not to mention that it would not be easy.
The kids were alright, but that didn't stop me from getting 'subrogated' to the tune of $7,500. I gave them $2,500 a few years later and got straightened out.
One thing that will never leave me is seeing that those kids were alright in the car I just hit. The thought recurs to me again and again, what if they weren't ?
What if they weren't ?
T
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