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Volkswagen Engineers and Angels watch over me.



No kidding, and I bet that wife and new baby are too, not to mention a
few other family members. :)
Cathy

On Nov 10, 2007 10:04 PM, Mike Smith <smithma7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Damn man. Glad you're still here!
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2007 1:52 PM, Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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> Mike
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