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To: bad company
My family. My grandmother drove herself twenty miles to the hospital after a major stroke because she didn't want to raise a fuss.

I did that after my first heart attack. Three in the morning, nobody on the road, but I drove to the hospital with one hand on the parking brake, just in case. I figured that I'd get to the hospital before an ambulance crew could get to me.

78 posted on 12/29/2005 7:30:13 PM PST by Riley ("Bother" said Pooh, as he fired the Claymores.)
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To: Riley
with one hand on the parking brake

And the parking brake was supposed to do what? Give you cpr? Call an ambulance if you pass out? Run like lassie and get help? You're not bulletproof you cantankerous old fart. People count on you and people care for you.

/lecture your family really wanted to give you

79 posted on 12/29/2005 7:55:18 PM PST by bad company ( Sorry, I'll try to act normal but I'm all I have to work with.)
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To: Riley
I wasn't there so I won't judge your drive. I have driven 20+ miles to get sewn up, just because that was the fastest way to get it done.

I hope your parking brake episode was in a front wheel drive car or a heavy old truck. In a RWD vehicle, grabbing the parking brake at speed will cause you to do a 180 with only a small twist of the wheel. We used to do this for fun when I was a youngster.

99 posted on 12/31/2005 4:04:56 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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