On 05/24/2021 12:28 PM, Tekkie� wrote:

On Sat, 22 May 2021 10:43:17 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...


On 05/22/2021 08:14 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


If you want foolproof transport dont sit behind the steering wheel. Get
someone else to do it

The two roll-over wrecks I've been in had someone else behind the wheel,
so no thanks.

Be glad you didn't have any appendages outside the vehicles.


Fortunately both were late in the year. One was on a wet leaf covered
road. I'd remarked moments before we were going down the road backwards
at 70 mph, 'You know, wet leaves are as bad as ice.' as a polite way of
saying slow the **** down. Alfa Romeos don't hold up well when going end
over end. Even better, it was his wife's car.

I had a cut over my eye so we wound up in the ER. As I lay there I heard
a conversation 'I don't know if we can save the eye.' Luckily it was
somebody else's eye in question. The doc who sewed me up spoke enough
English to say he wasn't very good at suturing but a plastic surgeon
would be able to fix it all up. Great.

That wasn't as bad as the Navy corpsman who threw away the novocaine in
the suture kit. 'If I use that your facial muscles will sag and there
might be a scar.'

I still have both sets. They add to my friendly appearance.