Musings on LA - OT

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"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
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I once ended up spread-eagled on the hood of a car. When the walk
light came on, I started across the intersection on foot, crossing in
front of a car from the passenger side. The driver was looking the
other way, and as soon as he saw there wasn't any traffic coming, he
pulled out and made a right turn. There wasn't time for me to jump
out of the way, so I toppled onto the hood. I had to bang on the
hood to get the driver's attention to let me off; he carried me about
50 feet. Judging from the startled look on his face, he had had no
idea that anyone was walking in front of him. I ended up with
bruised shins, and considered myself lucky that I hadn't fallen
backward and been run over.

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One place you might want to visit in SF is the Winchester Mystery House.

Actually, that place is in San Jose, about 50 miles south of SF. I used
to live not far from there and I never went to see it! I always wanted to,
just never got around to it.

Me too! I used to live near there (Sunnyvale), and I never visited the
place until years after I moved away and passed through again on vacation.

Dan

Dan M wrote:

Me too! I used to live near there (Sunnyvale), and I never visited the
place until years after I moved away and passed through again on vacation.

You used to live in Sunnyvale, too? Gee, you, Hopitus and I should all
get together for a reunion. Where to? Charlie Brown's?

Joyce

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:02:24 GMT, wrote:

John F. Eldredge wrote:

I once ended up spread-eagled on the hood of a car.

You know, when I first read this sentence I was sure it was going to
be a story about a brush with law enforcement.

I toppled onto the hood. I had to bang on the
hood to get the driver's attention to let me off; he carried me about
50 feet.

This is unbelievable - you had to *bang* to get his attention? Couldn't
he *see* you? You were right in front of him! What was he looking at,
that he couldn't see an adult human on the hood of his car??
Bet we could have fun coming up with real life experiences of things
we've seen people doing instead of paying attention to driving. Like
yapping on a cell phone, counting the change or checking the bags of
food after going through a drive thru, eating, flossing their teeth,
looking in the mirror while combing their hair, putting on makeup, or
shaving, reading, and the list goes on and on.

Course, that would just cover not seeing you, you'd think there must
have been some noise too when someone ends up on your hood.

Glad you were OK!!

Joyce

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