[afraidfortherepublic]

When I went into labor with our first...My husband insisted on driving the opposite direction from the hospital to visited a gun shop in another town to pick up a part that he had had crafted! We got to the parking lot of the shop and I was just screaming for him to turn around and take me to the hosipital. Of course the baby didn't come for another 12 hours, but it seemed urgent at the time.

He did something weird with every child. On my last one we had to drive through a tunnel. It was a rainy night and there was an accident right outside the tunnel with an ambulence, police, and flashing lights. Instead of slowing down, he floored the accelorator. I screamed, "What are you doing?" He answered that the accident victim would be going to the same hospital and he wanted to get me there first!

That little caper scared the wits out of me so that labor totally stopped, but the baby was born 5 hours later -- but so suddenly that they did not have time to administer any anesthesia.

We're still married -- 44 years later. We haven't killed each other, although I'm sure that it has been contemplated from time to time.

[Scupoli]

The local news this evening had an interview with the Modesto Police Chief. He said "If you knew what we knew you would understand why we are searching the Marina."