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Mornin Dan, hope your night went well. It must seem like you've been in there a month by now. Still loookin at going home Friday ??
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I bought a new car before I got here, and only drove it twice. I'll get the excitement of driving a new car all over again. [/quote:vyy31rtn] I told you, you should have spent 2 weeks in Vegas instead. The food would be better.
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Dang, nice ride.
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I'm glad to hear you're finally getting out Dan.
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How far can you jump that SC400.......I know you've thought about it.
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The fastest that I've been in a car is 145mph. It takes a good long way to get up to speed and back down at that kind of speed. A surprisingly long way. Wooo Whooo! I get to take these 26 electrodes off in the morning, and go home in the afternoon |
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In high school there was a road that went along level, then dropped steeply down into a ravine. You could jump down it, or up out of it in a car. I used to steal cars and go jump them (Dukes of Hazzard was a big influence at that time) ;) I remember passing an oncoming car in the air once and how weird it looked to be looking down on its roof looking out the window. I don't know that I'm all that much more smart now, but I haven't stolen a car since then :) And I always returned them. Thanks for the memories, I hadn't been back there in my mind forever. |
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Good night Dan, hopefully this will be your last night in the "big house".
Goodnight ma, goodnight pa. Goodnight John-Boy.
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I can relate Dan. Some of the things I did in cars when I was in my teens was SO STUPID (see definition of teenager). I guess that's why I am always telling mine how important it is to be careful in a car. Frankly, I just got lucky several times.
Part of my job as many of you know, is handling the disposition of totaled cars. I have taken both my kids on several occassions to look at some of these. They used to say something like "WOW they must have been flying"...then I tell them it was about a 30mph impact and the car is ripped to shreads....opens their eyes.....those cages are not as safe as we like to think...most impacts truely are not at that high of a rate of speed. Anyway, glad you too seem to have gotten lucky....bet several others on here fit that category!
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That was smart to show your kids the effect of car accidents. One thing that I did that I wish I hadn't with my kids was drive aggressively with them. They were way into cars by virtue of the type of cars I owned when they were young. They loved going fast and would say "faster". In my 5.0 Mustang there was a certain S curve that they loved to have me go real fast through, and having kids that liked what I liked was fun. By the time they were nearing teens, I got wise and wondered what effect I was having on them and the way they would drive. I dialed way back, and hoped the damage wasn't already done :( My kids are still way into cars, they are 19 and 26, and are still alive. No thanks to my poor example. |
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