What a bum deal. Take a handful of advil and call the doc if it get's
really stiff, your neck that is.
We seem to have no shortage of drunkass drivers here in Fla as well. The
local MADD chapters have crashed cars that were involved in drunkwrecks
displayed at most of the highschools this week. Some of them look
frightening.
We'll think a kind thought for ya while working on our suntans Christmas
day.
Mike, I aint got no stinking hanging chads, Jackson
"Wm. Severin Thompson" wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
>
> I picked up daughter #2 Emily (12) and went to get a Christmas tree.
> Since my kids don't wake up in my house anymore on Xmas, I find the
> whole season to be a bit of a downer...but... none the less, decided to
> pop for a tree this year.
>
> We're at a stoplight, in the Team Thicko Urban Assault Vehicle 3/4 ton
> Dodge Club Cab 4x4 Cummins Turbo Diesel... the light turns green, and we
> begin to pull away when "WHAM!!!" Someone hits us from behind... hard
> enough to snap my neck back. Luckily we were moving forward, or it would
> have been much worse. I check... Emily's OK, so I walk back to the car
> that hit me to see if they're OK. The woman behind the wheel says "she's
> fine... our car's are fine". Well.. uhh.. no, mines fine, but hers (a
> new black Camaro) is all fucked up. I notice at this point her eyes are
> crossed and she smells like a bar rag. "Have you ben drinking, Ma'am?" I
> ask? "No" she says. At this point, while trying to get out of her car,
> she can't find the brake pedal and drives another 15' smacking into my
> truck again. I reach in and turn her carr off, as she's makin' noise
> about leaving. The cops show up, and at first, she refuses to blow the
> field sobriety breathalizer test. When she finally does, she pops a 2.3.
> (At the station, she popped a 2.6... almost 3 times the legal limit).
>
> The truck looks undamaged... but I'll get it washed and inspected, as
> there's a lot of ice and snow and salt around here these days. My neck's
> a little sore already... so I expect it to be in the AM.
>
> So, the moral to the story boys and girls, is keep your drunk ass off
> the road.
>
> Flounder
>
> Wishing you all the best for the holidays.
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