Volkswagen Engineers and Angels watch over me.

[kkrup62 at hotmail.com (Karl Krupke)]

Glad to hear you're OK.> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:52:08 -0800> From: scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx> To: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Volkswagen Engineers and Angels watch over me.> > 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> > _______________________________________________> Scirocco-l mailing list> Scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
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