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Shudder. I remember our neighbor boy (years back...not up here) stealing the family car one night. He was about 14 at the time. Yup, you guessed it. He flipped it in the middle of the night...in a water filled ditch. Somehow that boy made it out of the car alive, walked home, snuck back into bed, and left the car there. In the morning, the car wasn't in the drive. I'm not sure how long it took him to fess up to being the thief.
I've seen SO many cars flipped upside down in those ditches out around where we used to live. More than once I've crawled down in to make sure there wasn't a person in the car. The scariest was the time that one was partly submerged and the radio was still going and the tires were still spinning. No people, though. Turns out they were all illegal immigrants and had taken off for the trees... Didn't know that then, of course. I was sure I was going to find people hanging from the seatbelts or dead under water.
Gee thanks for making me feel better Roz
WHOOPS, sorry. Perhaps I should clarify that it was a gravel road at that time and they liked to act like idiots out there? It was a long, completely flat stretch and they were usually trying to see how much speed they could get how fast...then probably slamming on the brakes.
Nothing Raymond would do, I'm sure. As for the immigrants...they took a turn to fast and missed the bridge.
Whenever I drive back to Arkansas, we hit a point close to the state line where we would know we were almost to the state line even without knowing the landmarks. Why? Because the driving suddenly degrades to INSANE IDIOT level. They get their driver's licenses out of cracker jack boxes.
It's what happens when you have a state that allows "emergency" driver's licenses for kids at age 14. Every other kid in some of the small towns has an "emergency" driver's license at age 14....