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Josh Feltman

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Good news: Yesterday I walked away unscathed from a totalled car.

Bad news: The car in question was my 87 Honda Civic.

A truck hit the side of my car and spun me around, shattered the windshield and passenger windows and covered me with broken glass. I've got insurance, but they've deemed the car totalled. I guess they aren't willing to shell out 3-4 thousand to fix a car worth 1-2 thousand. Go figure. Insurance will cover a rental until they give me some $, and the wife and I have another vehicle, so I guess I'm just glad I'm in one piece at this point. Decided to take the day off and just relax a bit.
 
Having walked away from a few and carried out of a few I prefer the first one.

Any accident you can walk away from is a good accident.

Kiss your wife and tell her you love her, and send a prayer to the big guy for lookin' out for you. :cool:
 
I kissed my wife so many times yesterday I think I wore out my lips. I don't know what I would do without her. I drove to her work right after the accident because I didn't know what else to do. (Side note: swiss army shovel is a good thing to have in your car; I used mine to pry metal away from my rear tire so that I could drive) She drove me to AAA to call and file a claim, she drove me to the emergency room to get my eyes checked for broken glass, drove me to my work so I could touch bases with my manager, then drove me home, had a nice dinner and watched a movie. I'll close the curtains on our evening at that point ;)
 
mamav said:
W :eek: W!!!

Glad you're OK. Take care and do relax a little.
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What Gin said!
It's a wonder what people can walk away from these days. Good thing you were in a later model!
 
That's enough excitement for one day.

I trimmed my fingernails yesterday, not quite as exciting, but entertaining nonetheless.

Glad to see that you're in one piece.

If you count the bits of fingernail I'm in 11 pieces. :rolleyes:

Now go and buy a dump truck for commuting. :)
 
A moment of silence for the '87 Civic. It served you well. It will be missed, after being hit.

Very glad you are ok.

Don't do that again.
 
Yvsa said:
What Gin said!
It's a wonder what people can walk away from these days. Good thing you were in a later model!
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Yeah, '87 Honda Civic--cutting edge technology. The doctor asked me when he was checking my eyes with the UV light if my airbags had deployed :rolleyes:

I will say that had I had passengers in the car, they would have survived as well. For being such a tiny car, it sure did its job protecting me. I'll sure miss that car; it was like an extension of my body. I loved driving that thing. Sad this is that it was still driveable--engine was good. Right side of body pretty smashed up. My first thought was duct tape and plastic, but I think it was beyond that. :(
 
Years ago I won a 79 VW Rabbit when I was in College.

About 2 years after I graduated a semi pulled out in front of me and I took the roof off by driving it under the trailer partway. I was really glad I ducked when I realized that there was no way in hell I was gonna stop. I was going about 50 and it was rainy. Same thing for me, they totalled it. Only injury I had was some superficial glass from the windows busting. When I came to a stop the roof was about 1" above my head and I was laying over the stickshift.

They actually gave me more than it was worth and I used it as a downpayment on a subaru.
 
just this week we shed figurative tears. Ol' Bucket o' Bolts, our flawless 87 Accord, was driven by the towing guy up to the truck so it could be donated. It would have cost $1000 to keep it roadworthy and we bought a newer Accord. It was a fabulous car and I wish we were in a position to keep it but it didn't make financial sense. I love Hondas and have nothing but Hondas.

One of my cars got totalled by a tree in our front yard during a storm. I'm glad I wasn't in the car at the time.
 
"Fortunate in your misfortune."

That's what they told me when I walked away unscathed from rolling over 4.5 times in a Ford Explorer @73 mph. We came to a rest UPSIDE DOWN in the oncoming lane of an interstate highway. I had to cut my wife out of her seatbelt (the driver) and drag her out- carefully- as she had a broken neck vertebrae. In doing so I cut off the tip of my thumb- my only injury.

As the Explorer rolled over the first time, I had the impression that blue pool water was flowing in through the windshield. Of course it was the atomized safety glass that blew in on us... I didn't get knocked out like her- I remember every moment.

Her broken neck was "the hangman's freacture" C-1 vertebrae- the first one. She, somehow, wasn't paralyzed. But had I moved her wrong she easily could have been. Or dead.

Were we lucky? Yes of course- we should have been killed.
Were we lucky? heck no- thousands & thousands of cars pass that way every day & don't have accidents.

So we were fortunate in our misfortune. So were you.

Drive carefully, Josh. Everybody else, too.

Ad Astra :(
 
It's good that you are OK, Josh. Sounds like you have an amazing wife, too. It's funny how an auto wreck can make you appreciate you're loved ones so very much. I'm sorry for you car, but very glad you walked away from it.


Jake
 
Josh Feltman said:
Yeah, '87 Honda Civic--cutting edge technology. The doctor asked me when he was checking my eyes with the UV light if my airbags had deployed :rolleyes:
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Yea, but if you had been in even a late 70's model domestic you may not have walked away without injury. The 50 and 60 models were even worse.
We won't even talk about the old cars.:(

AA is spot on, "Fortunate in your misfortune."
 
I try to look at things like this thusly: that car had to go, because if it didn't it would have caused a terrible accident. This is the Universe's way of getting that car out of circulation so I could move on and be safe.

I try to look at everything "bad" that happens that way. It all happens for the best, and it is my responsibility to try to see some possible ways that something happening could be good.
 
Other driver was fine. I think he had some grill/front end damage to his truck, but nowhere near what the honda suffered. The honda fared remarkably well considering the other vehicle was larger--midsize pickup with a camper shell.
 
Ad, what caused your Explorer to roll?

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I'm a little spooked. Tomorow I have to drive 400 miles on ice encrusted roads for two eye exams- mine and my oldest son's. My exam was already put off several months and I must get it done- a legacy from the beating I recieved two years ago, we must check anually to make sure I don't need surgery.

The Truck I'm taking is the same one my wife took off the road on the 26th and smashed. IT has not been repaired or realligned. I've driven worse, but I hate the thought of all three of my boys with me- sort of all the eggs in one basket.
If there were any place to put my younger two I would. But such is the problem of having moved many times in my life- there is no family near and few neighbors I could even ask, or would want to.


munk
 
VERY glad to hear that you're all right Josh. It sounds like that could have been very very bad. :eek:
 
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