From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #180 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 Saturday, September 9 2006 Volume 11 : Number 180 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) [Elaine ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:04:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Subject: Re: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) Beth! That is a totally bizarre story, especially given that the licensed driver-for-hire is officially, completely bound by law to report such accidents! As far as I can tell. The rest of us, operating our motors around alone, I don't know -- but him, definitely. Good for you, I'd have ditched him, too. I just thought I'd take this opportunity to say hello to everyone. As of this date, September 8, 2006, my car is STILL in the body shop! Keith -- I'm happy to hear that you have a Safe Happens Jetta, but the car I own is a Safe Happens Passat. So be careful out there. :) I also forgot to add, months ago, that Raul Midon was good..however, he lost a lot of points by admonishing the audience for their chatter during his opening-act set. He actually told us that we'd understand him better if we were paying attention. I thought it was a good chutzpah kind of move, but seriously. If you have to tell the audience that you're more compelling that your performance, what does that say. I just got tickets to see Thomas in Cerritos, CA on 11/15. I'm ecstatic! On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Beth Meyer wrote: > > 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 ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #180 ****************************