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Re: I'm lucky to be alive
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Date: 
Sat, 19 Aug 2000 14:07:15 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.nc, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.loc.us.nc, Karim Nassar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Frank,
> > 
> > Good to hear you're ok!  Wow... that sounds like it was a doozy. I've been in
> > my share of near-misses (mostly atrributable to my reflexes and luck)
> 
> Are you saying if your reflexes were better, they wouldn't have been
> near-misses?

no... if my reflexes were worse, they would not have been misses ;-)

> > but the
> > only two actual car wrecks that my car has been in occurred when no one was • in
> > my car (my cars have a lousy saftey record when they are standing still ;-))
> 
> I'm with you there -- I've been the driver in three cars that were
> totalled.  In every case, I was sitting still, and was exactly where I was
> supposed to be, doing what I was supposed to be doing.
> 
> 'Course, in all three wrecks, snow and ice played a major factor...

It's something about campus and college student drivers, for me.

--Karim



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  Re: I'm lucky to be alive
 
(...) Are you saying if your reflexes were better, they wouldn't have been near-misses? (...) I'm with you there -- I've been the driver in three cars that were totalled. In every case, I was sitting still, and was exactly where I was supposed to (...) (26 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.us.nc)

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