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Re: Scare of a lifetime

To: "David Templeton" <davidt@opentext.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Scare of a lifetime
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:22:51 -0500
>While driving my daughter home from a baseball practice we were travelling
a
>country road (all roads around my place are country ones).  And what comes
>out of the side of the road, a doe. A big one!  It was sooo close in fact I
>missed it by about a half foot from the front of the spitfire.  If I was 1
>mph faster then we wouldn't be here right now. I think I am going to go and
>buy a lottery ticket.

I felt the same way when a bear ran into my car last Thanksgiving.  If I had
arrived on the scene a second earlier, and he had got out in front of the
car and the car had struck him, the car would likely be demolished.  As it
was, it took $2600 to set the Saturn right.

Phil Ethier  West Side   Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net   http://www.mnautox.com/  http://www.vtr2002.org

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