Volkswagen Engineers and Angels watch over me.

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  Suffering Sukkatash!

  Glad you are here to tell the story! Hugging family feels so good 
after that.  Heck, even I could hug you after that, but that would be 
out of character and I would quickly get back to my senses :-)

  But wait, you stopped in midsentence ... What else happened?

    Jean-Claude

Chris Bennett a ?crit :
> Well, y'all damn near lost me last night.  I know I know... what would
> the world do without me?  What would this list do without me?  Since I
> am known for saving the world one lighting system at a time and all...
>
> I was in Allentown yesterday for training and I told them I had a 5pm
> flight and they held me until 3:30.  So I leave work like a bat out of
> hell and since I DO NOT know Allentown I listened to my GPS.  The
> Allentown airport is very small and not the one I wanted to go to.  I
> pull up and see alot of Cessna's and stuff.  Do a quick check and I
> wanted Lehigh Valley International Airport.  Oops.  So I was pretty
> sure I was going to miss the flight.  I call travel to discuss options
> and United was late.  SWEEEET.
>
> I fly into OHare last night and for a 40 min layover with my delayed
> flight and my connection got delayed 3 hours.  So I took care of some
> work and did my thing, but that put me into Seattle approximately 2am
> pacific.  I was UP since 6am eastern.  That put me at about 23 hours
> no sleep.  No biggie I do that all the time saving the world right?
> One lighting system at and time and all.
>
> I parked offsite I think I mentioned this, by the time I got the bags,
> car and got on I-5 it's now 3am.  I set the cruise control to make
> sure the cops didn't have an excuse.  Eerie how empty I-5 was.  I made
> room for other cars just in case someone was drunk I kept a one lane
> buffer.  Got off the freeway went through the bad part of Tacoma, with
> no major potholes (in the R32), no crackheads, no prostitutes, no
> homeless people tapping on my window.  I was almost home.  I turn onto
> MY street which is a fairly busy arterial.  I am now a quarter mile
> from home.  It's raining pretty good but hey I am almost home it's
> gonna warm and I get to sleep.  Oh I was so friggin sleepy I could
> have fallen asleep driving so easily.
>
> I passed the last cross street by the church and there were two cars
> the first went past as I pasted the cross street.  I was between the
> 2nd car and the street now doing 35mph.  That 2nd car was doing at
> least 40-50 and he came into my lane at the last second.  You know how
> Bill Cosby says that when you are about to have an accident, first you
> say it, then you do it... That's not entirely true.  I did three
> things damn near simultaneously I locked up the R32's antilock brakes,
> the car shuddered like I was running over "road turtles" (those
> traffic dots that mark lanes) at 60mph.  I jerked the wheel to the
> left and went into the left lane, and screamed MOTHERF*CKER!!!  Now if
> there had been a milf nearby maybe...  the drunk guy went right into
> the ditch hard bounced out behind me and went past the cross street,
> whips a 180 came back and turned right onto the road he was originally
> trying to go to and weaved off into the night.
>
> I hate to say this to the Scirocco list but I think if I was in the
> Scirocco I wouldn't have been able to stop quick enough or wrench like
> I did, because it was so wet and God forbid he hit me at that speed it
> wouldn't have been very nice without airbags at a 70+mph collision.
>
> So I came in shaking, hugged my girls and couldn't sleep a wink.
>
> Chris
>
> So I
>
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