Posted on 04/16/2005 2:16:29 PM PDT by kingattax
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- An 81-year-old woman preparing to take a test drive at a car dealership hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall.
"She must have panicked," said Joe Sica, sales manager at Honda of Fort Myers.
The new Honda Accord shot backward after Dorothy Byrum got behind the wheel and apparently stepped on the wrong pedal Wednesday.
The open car door hit her 88-year-old husband, Robert, and the salesman. Then the car struck the parked car, the tree and the wall. The air bag deployed, and Byrum was not injured.
Her husband was knocked down but was in good condition the following day. The salesman was released after treatment and is expected to be out of work for about a week, Sica said.
The car was written off
Poor thing, she'll likely keep her driver's license and have to continue using the old clunker she brought onto the lot.
(steely)
The inportant thing is did she buy a car?
Nor with they refuse a test drive to a testosterone-addled teenage boy when he wants to drive the six-zillion horsepower muscle car.
(Jerry opens his package)
JERRY: Is this my stereo?
(Kramer walks in)
KRAMER: Hey you got it.
JERRY: What happened to my stereo? It's all smashed up.
KRAMER: That's right. Now it looks like it was broken during shipping and I insured it for $400.
JERRY: But you were supposed to get me a refund.
KRAMER: You can't get a refund. Your warranty expired two years ago.
JERRY: So were going to make the Post Office pay for my new stereo?
KRAMER: It's just a write off for them.
JERRY: How is it a write off?
KRAMER: They just write it off.
JERRY: Write it off what?
KRAMER: Jerry all these big companies they write off everything
JERRY: You don't even know what a write off is.
KRAMER: Do you?
JERRY: No. I don't.
KRAMER: But they do and they are the ones writing it off.
JERRY: I wish I just had the last twenty seconds of my life back.
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LOL...unreal
Woman drivers... haha.
whats the word on dave ?
As of January 1 he retired from writing his column. No word whether he'll still be wrting novels, but my bet is yes. His second, BTW, is MUCH better than his first.
Eh. Women Drivers.
"Now I've left the gearshift in reverse, Mrs. Byrum ... so why don't you get in and test out the brakes now?"
LOL...martin strikes again
Test them as you plan to drive them
No problem here. None at all.
But we need to step up the "sobriety checkpoint" effort, just in case someone had one too many at dinner.
Nothing will happen to this woman. Of course, I could be driving down the road (perfectly) and come across a checkpoint where I would be searched and given a breathalizer exam. If I blew .08 or above, I would be out a license, my dignity, and about $15,000.
This woman, however, is just fine to drive. Just ask the idiots at MADD.
I know it's not p.c. but this story absolutely cracked me up. I can't stop laughing even as I type this.
Sigh, I guess I'll add this to the list of things for which I'll pray for forgiveness. The list is sure getting long.
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