Question of the Day - Monday, May 27th, 2024

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I don't think so? Maybe? Probably? I've hit a few vehicles/things from backing up (which I've always been terrible at and I seem to get worse with practice) or falling asleep at the wheel. I was told by a doctor the falling asleep issue is a form of car sickness. Oh! And I completely took out a neighbor's fence as a teenager whilst taking turns with my siblings jumping an embankment on a four wheeler. And we ran over a friend's foot when we were trying to mimic parasailing on a frontage road using roller blades and a tarp. We managed to get him a few feet in the air before he whipped around in front of the car and got run over. His foot was fine, but his roller blade was destroyed.

Wait! I remember, I did get hit! Everyone was taking turns dragging a couple of small dirt bikes up on the roof and driving off the roof into a nearby tree, where we'd grab hold of the branches and clamber down. The guy behind me didn't check that I was clear before taking his turn, so I got grazed by the bike as I was climbing down and it dropped past me.

Man, teenagers are dumb.
 
Three times.
- First as a kid. I was in the back of the station wagon. For you young folk out there - it was normal when I was a kid for kids and dogs to travel in the back like that without seatbelts. My mother was driving and she slowed down at a stop sign and got rear-ended. The car was shunted into the cross street and I went flying over the back seat and landed with my nose hitting the headrests of the front seats.
- Second as an adult I was hit while walking into the hospital for a doctor's appointment. The guy hit me and kept driving. No serious damage but I was very sore for several weeks and the doc said my BP was off the chart.
- Third, someone T-boned me in the grocery store parking lot. Actually he reversed into my side door. He had a car with the spare tire mounted on the back and that thing punched its way badly through my car's body. The first thing he said was he had been distracted by the pretty lady in the car next to him. Weirdo!

I sincerely hope not to experience anything like any of them ever again.
 
RoyalChick said:
I was in the back of the station wagon. For you young folk out there - it was normal when I was a kid for kids and dogs to travel in the back like that without seatbelts.
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I used to ride in the body of my grandfather's pickup before they made it illegal. 🙋‍♀️ There was no seatbelts back there, or anything to protect you if anything bad happened. (Thankfully nothing did.)
 

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