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Detroit, 4:21 AM
Thu Nov 26
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11/01/09
This guy was showing off, trying to impress the drinkers out the front of the pub (myself one of them), whipped around the corner- gave it too much in first and lost it. People ran over taking pictures and abusing the poor bastard. He was so embarrassed he had trouble getting out of the car to face the music. That's what you get! #accidents
10/30/09
As for me, I have yet (knocking loudly and frantically on wood) to be in a serious accident while driving. Now pardon me while I cower in the dark for having made such a rash and disaster-inviting statement. #accidents
10/30/09
My daughter has had a couple fender benders but nothing serious. Until last Sunday. She clipped an angry black woman's car backing up to turn around and got assaulted by the woman who then left the scene.
She has a severe concussion from being punched repeatedly in the temple and is now unable to speak.
Not a religious man but I'll take any prayers I can get...
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Remember when we were kids in school, having a tough time in one or two of our classes, and people always told us that things would get better?
I'd like to know where those people are now, so that I can smack them upside the head. #accidents
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I hope she makes a full and speedy recovery. #accidents
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@mytdawg:
Seems like I'm not the only one with the rough year.
Prayers for your daughter, hope she gets well.
Thankfully I've been blessed with good driving, and the patience of a saint as most people will tell.
Or, "you drive slower than a grandma" if someone is with me and in a hurry. #accidents
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It's colorful, it's interesting and I think it's important. I seriously have no preconceived notions and neither does my daughter.
My family has no obsession with a "safe" environment. She got out to apologize and the woman unloaded on her. I don't know if you were being serious. It's not central to the story but it may or may not be relevant.
I've had a couple run ins but never this level of violence. I'm not happy about it. #accidents
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Estrogen levels, maybe?
(All this is just jokin' around, don't worry.) #accidents
10/30/09
I keed, I keed. Again, I'm glad you guys did that. #accidents
10/30/09
My mother has had pretty cool cars my whole life, starting with a Ford Torino with the Cleveland engine when I was little, through a 240Z, 280Z, a couple of Celicas, [forgotten example of 80s craptasticness] and recently a pretty hot Integra then a G35. All stick shift. And she hoons them.
I'm sure that's where I got it from. My dad likes fast cars, but when he drives them he doesn't push it at all.
And ever since I've been 16, whenever I've driven with mom in the car, she uses the 'fake brake' on the passenger side and tells me "You are going way too fast for this road", etc. Then I'll let her drive the same route, look over and she's doing 10 mph faster than I was in the same place. #accidents
10/30/09
My mother, though, is an awesome driver - defined as both "knows what she's doing" and "generally follows traffic laws" - and has a turbocharged, stick-shift New Beetle. The manual transmission is the main theme, here; aside from the '65 Rambler she had long before I was born and the '90 Bronco II, all her cars have had a stick-shift. I think that helps too. When she mentions my speed - which is infrequent - it's generally because I wasn't paying as much attention as I should. #accidents
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Which, considering the times that we live in, would also probably be considered legitimate grounds for a lawsuit against your own mom/ #accidents
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"YO MOMMA..."
etc etc #accidents
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She's never injured a car, though... #accidents
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(A guy who parked next to my best friend in HS had a riced Sunfire!) #accidents
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Your reaction is the same as ours was! #accidents
11/03/09
Haha, I've never lived in NC. I lived in S.C. most of my teen years. I know in the Rock Hill and Charlott, NC areas there's a huge tuning and street racing scene, but for the rest of the state camo is as good as carbon-fiber. #accidents
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My first wife totaled my Sirocco and my 6 month old Mustang.
My current wife totaled out our Wrangler and Cherokee. #accidents
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Rent it when you need it, or you pay every day. #accidents