[AGL] car talk

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Jon,

The only accident i remember having was to the side of our new Volvo 122s 
when I turned into a narrow
street without sidewalks in Florence Italy. Scraped
a building. This was in 1966.

Other than the passenger side of the car getting
hung up on a high curb when parking, i havent
had any accidents.

I dont much like driving our present car, a Mercury
Gran Marquis, like Michele's new car (good luck
with it Michele) because it is so big. Plus you
cant really see where the car ends front and back
because of the styling. If i had my druthers (where
ARE my druthers?) I'd drive a sports car more
agile than a Dadsmobile.

This car is rearwheel drive but is less refined
than the Buick 81 LeSabre it replaces. The Buick
was a true land yacht, not designed for driving
on a country road but for sailing along on the
boulevard.

Mike

>

> Mike-- you have never had an accident? I have had a few, one only a few

> months ago. They were mainly my fault (including one that almost killed 

> me,

> a collision with an Oak tree out by Zilker Park). I had  a few in San

> Francisco back in the 60s when senior citizens had a habit of running into

> me (I think the dirty blue color of my VW blended in with the sky and they

> found me invisible). I would leap out of my car yelling in rage  "You hit 

> my

> car-- I'll shut up about it if you give me $50." Usually worked, because

> they didn't want their insurance company to know the dirty little secret 

> of

> their inability to drive straight and stop in time. Now I carry insurance

> meticulously fill out forms. I think I'll walk from now on.

>

> Jon