[lit-ideas] Re: Ken Lay
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:27:43 EDT
Seatbelts are funny things. I've always avoided wearing them like the
plague because I have this admittedly irrational fear of being trapped in a
burning or sinking in water car and not being able to get out. However, from
the
time my children were out of their car seats I made it a STRONG point to
seatbelt them before I started the engine. It's been thoroughly ingrained
into
them -- shut door, click belt. For the first time in her entire life, Bronwyn
(daughter, 14) was with me in the car and forgot to fasten her seatbelt. We
had a wreck -- a bad one. Some shmuck left rolls of carpet laying in the
highway lane, I swerved, but clipped the corner of one with the tired,
propelled into the median, flipped the car on its top and the car flew along
on the
roof 250 yards. I broke 5 ribs and had a neck brace. When the car flipped,
the roof was crushed in on the passenger's side, making the car look like a
triangle. The police on the scene and the paramedics told me if Bronnie had
had her seatbelt on the roof would have crushed her head, broken her neck, and
killed her. Because she did not have it on she was able to slide down onto
the floor. I was happy to pay the $10 fine for having a minor in the car
w/out
a seatbelt on. I was less happy that the DFS decided I needed to be
investigated for child endangerment.
Julie Krueger
one never knows
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Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Ken Lay Date: 7/5/06 3:03:31 P.M. Central Daylight
Time From: _pas@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:pas@xxxxxxxx) To:
_lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on:
At 03:47 PM 7/5/2006, you wrote:
>Oh, look, Paul, you have support! What could be better? Now you can
>really go to town.
No, I've already been to town once today. I saw an accident when I was
there. It was bizarre because it was a rear-ender, but the person in the
back car was injured. I guess she should have been wearing her seatbelt. If
only we had a law against not wearing your seatbelt, no one would ever get
hurt. Oh, wait, we do. I wonder what went wrong with that.
Before I left town, I bought my lunch, came back to work.
In about an hour, I will go to an other town. I have to go to the bank. I
will cry all the way there.
demythologizing,
p
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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