Trufax: the only person in my family to repeated wreck a car? My brother. His poor, poor Monte Carlo. First, he pulled into a gas station and rammed a concrete pylon protecting the pumps. Then somehow lost traction on the road and ended up nose-first in the shallow ditch in front of our house. Then was working on another dead car in the garage, rolled it out for better light, used the Monte Carlo to push it back in, hit the gas too hard and crumpled the other headlight.
Well, maybe it's not quite true that he's the only one. My dad used to have a motorcycle when he was a teen, and crashed into a tree. It broke his knee. When he healed up, he took his bike out again. Another crash. Same tree. Same knee. Grandad sold his motorcycle after that. Dad and my uncle once rolled a golf cart together, too.
My mom? Her only two accidents were getting hit from behind by other people speeding. Dare say she's not the one who needs the Volkswagen.
A sticking point with my Dad is that my Mum totalled their Pontiac Firefly -- a Canadian re-branding of the Geo Metro -- by running it into a moving pick-up truck. I point out that he's not perfect -- he landed another car in a ditch at the bottom of a hill.
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Date: 2010-07-04 02:30 am (UTC)Well, maybe it's not quite true that he's the only one. My dad used to have a motorcycle when he was a teen, and crashed into a tree. It broke his knee. When he healed up, he took his bike out again. Another crash. Same tree. Same knee. Grandad sold his motorcycle after that. Dad and my uncle once rolled a golf cart together, too.
My mom? Her only two accidents were getting hit from behind by other people speeding. Dare say she's not the one who needs the Volkswagen.
Re: YES
Date: 2010-07-04 04:27 pm (UTC)