From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #155 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, June 27 2006 Volume 11 : Number 155 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V11 #154 [Wargun2438@aol.com] RE: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) ["Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I was heading home. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:39:41 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: RE: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) Wow - that is scary. I've been lucky that the only accident I've been in recently was a 18 year old taking my back bumper off at an intersection turn lane. It was probably karma getting me for taking off someone else' bumper 10 years earlier. Makes me feel a bit better - I just bought one of those "safe happens" VW Jettas last week. - -Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Elaine Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:56 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) And sorry this is so long. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I was heading home. There was a left-turn-into-high-speed accident between two other motorists, and it happened right in front of me. Once they started spinning, they crashed into us (me and my two girls). So now I know what it's like to have an airbag deploy. (It smells like something's on fire and the propellant burns your eyes.) We had been stopped at the intersection, waiting for traffic to clear so we could take a left. We're all fine..good old Volkswagen. (It was exactly like their current commercials.) But it was a scene. They called out 3 ambulances, 1 big engine, 1 paramedic truck, several sheriff units, couple of CHP. Three tow trucks. :( Mine included. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We're good, and I'll start working on the insurance/body shop/adjustors game tomorrow. I'm just sharing with you all because you're my friends. Even sitting there perfectly still, minding your own beeswax, violence and carnage can come your way out of absolutely nowhere. Drive defensively and wear protective belts. Almost more interestingly (since injury was minimal to nonexistent), I sat and watched for 90 minutes as the cleanup process unfolded. I saw L.A. county sheriffs ticket half a dozen people for trying to get around emergency vehicles blocking lanes...two tried to drive into an open lane of oncoming traffic to do so! And I remember one lady got in a sheriff deputy's face about WHY he wouldn't let her "just go around." I was amazed. A woman ended up in the back of a squad car but I don't know what the situation was. This was after spending Friday night in Hollywood (saw Joe Jackson at the Avalon theater. It was just 'ehh' for me. Raul Midon was good, though.) We walked among the freaks, including, by the way, no less than THREE Scientology outposts up and down Hollywood Boulevard. The barkers outside the L. Ron Hubbard Life Museum were especially creepy. One of them looked just like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, and she was female. AND we were down there on the night that Aaron Spelling died, may God rest his soul, and saw television crews readying for the 11 o'clock news at Mr. Spelling's star on the Walk of Fame, whose location was outside some nasty and iron-gated tattoo parlor. This kind of scene is always both sad and funny at the same time. So, I said to my husband as we passed, "wow, look, KCAL is here. No one watches KCAL!" A cameraman glared daggers at me, as if I'd just punched his sister or something. Then we walked back to our room, upon which we had splurged at the Renaissance (attached to the Kodak Theater complex, home of the awards telecasts and housing one of the most awesome parking garages I've ever seen). So you have nasty/ugly Hollywood to one side, and uber-glamour at the other end of the boulevard. In the middle, we ducked into the only clean restaurant we could find for a bite, and saw nine LAPD officers chowing down and looking at everyone sideways. The hotel was hosting a convention of "Woodmen of the World," which, I wondered was a brotherhood of lumberjacks? No, it's just another fraternal organization that I don't understand, like Shriners and Masons. All I can tell you is that the hotel was crawling with slow-speaking southern USA folk. They were goofily out-of-place at the Oscars hotel. So, I guess it's not entirely off-topic, being that Miss Kathleen has a connection to Aaron Spelling. But anyway, irony in this world is always interesting, wherever it occurs. All in all, the thing that sums it up: it was the kind of weekend one can only have in Los Angeles. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:37:39 -0600 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Re: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) Indeed! Glad to hear you and yours are OK -- "yours" not including the car, I suppose :-( Reminds me of my introduction to L.A. when I went there for a conference some years ago. I got into a hotel shuttle van to go from the airport to the hotel, along with a substantial group of people. The van seriously smacked a pedestrian while still at the airport. Granted, it was pretty much the pedestrian's fault -- she darted out from in front of a stopped bus in the adjacent lane, colliding very hard with the side of our rapidly moving van. Nonetheless, I was flabbergasted as the pedestrian (whose hurry clearly trumped all else) sort of collected herself and limped off miserably, and the van driver was about to drive right on to the hotels as if nothing had happened. I couldn't quite get past my default paradigm that if you hit someone with your car you have to stop and report it to the police. (Several of us passengers rebelled, had him drop us off and shared a cab instead.) Keith Stansell wrote: > > Wow - that is scary. I've been lucky that the only accident I've been in > recently was a 18 year old taking my back bumper off at an intersection turn > lane. It was probably karma getting me for taking off someone else' bumper > 10 years earlier. > > Makes me feel a bit better - I just bought one of those "safe happens" VW > Jettas last week. > > -Keith > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Elaine > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:56 PM > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) > > And sorry this is so long. > > At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I was heading home. There was a > left-turn-into-high-speed accident between two other motorists, and it > happened right in front of me. Once they started spinning, they crashed > into us (me and my two girls). So now I know what it's like to have an > airbag deploy. (It smells like something's on fire and the propellant > burns your eyes.) We had been stopped at the intersection, waiting for > traffic to clear so we could take a left. We're all fine..good old > Volkswagen. (It was exactly like their current commercials.) But it was > a scene. They called out 3 ambulances, 1 big engine, 1 paramedic truck, > several sheriff units, couple of CHP. Three tow trucks. :( Mine included. > Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #155 ****************************