I'm very glad to have my wife in one piece

Svashtar said:
Good news Josh! Very glad she was not seriously hurt.

Before I got my CPAP and was also working long hours I fell asleep 2 times while driving. One wreck did $5500 worth of damage to my truck, and the other I just ran off the road and into a muddy field and had to be towed out. Could have been killed easily in either one.

Your brain tells your body "sleep and you will die!", and the body says "yeah, so, what's your point?" :eek:

Please make sure she knows to call you for a ride or even rent a motel in the future if she is that tired again and is thinking about driving herself.

Norm
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Bit dumb of her not to have sense enough to give you a call after needing to stop twice....then run off the road? and try again??

You need to get it to her that stopping once because she's sleepy is a signal to call for a ride.

Glad she's safe,but also glad some poor sucker didn't die on account of her.
 
Geez Krull. I know that's tough love talking, but knowing Josh a little bit I betcha he gets that part loud and clear all by himself.

No offense, but I always am surprised when someone takes this tack when a loved one is almost killed:(
 
Alas, I married a human woman, one prone to mistakes. Her co-workers suggested she lie down in the teachers' lounge; she chose to drive home instead. I'm not sure why. I'm also not sure why she didn't call me. Still, it's a bit late to do anything about that now. After I got done hugging her, I lectured her sternly though! Then I made her write, "I will not drive when I'm sleepy because I'm the most precious thing in Feltman's life" five hundred times on a chalkboard while I stood behind her with a heavy ruler in case she got out of line.
 
traffic accidents make people angry.

....no, that's not right...they were angry before the accident. The accident gave them an outlet.

When you think about, we are rage babies driving around with 4000 pound chariots. I'm surprised how polite the road is under the circumstances.

I'm sure Josh's wife thought she'd napped enough to ward off the sleepies.
Being sleepy while driving is one of the purgatory punishments I'd dish out as an insane God. For the sake of the cosmic list, asleep at the wheel is right next to full bladder and cant go. I hate driving when I'm sleepy. And it's not funny in my old age of 50. I cant hack the miles I used to.

Getting back to what's really important, though, being as how this is a knife forum, is how much penetration did that truck get on the Ponderosa Pine vs say a Douglas Fir?

munk
 
munk said:
Getting back to what's really important, though, being as how this is a knife forum, is how much penetration did that truck get on the Ponderosa Pine vs say a Douglas Fir?

munk
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Hmmm, those leaf springs would make some really cool knives.:D

n2s
 
You're such a class act Josh. I'm trying to learn, among many other things, to curb my aggressiveness, and reading your posts, and yours too Rob, are a big help. I didn't know if you knew you were teaching me like this, but you are. Both of you.

Again, I'm glad she's OK. Nobody got hurt but her, its a lesson learned.
 
I have a long - 48 mile long drive to and from work each day.
Lately, I have had to fight off the urge to close my eyes for just a minute on the way home!
Loud music helps! It is the long drive on country roads in the dark that is the problem.

A colleague at work fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in a ditch. He wasn't hurt, but could have been.
 
You're a lucky man. Many people walk through life half asleep, never knowing what's truly important till it's far too late. You got to find out exactly how valuable love and life are and all it cost you was a truck. Glad she walked away from that.

Frank
 
I recall a number of long trips, usually during this time of year, trying to haul the family somewhere for the holidays, when I was really too sleepy to be driving, but did it anyway (having convinced myself at the time that I was ok). Looking back, I realize how stupid I was (and lucky).

Eric
 
Luckily I've never had to drive while I was all that tired. I mean, I've had to drive while it was late and way past my bed time, but I wasn't nodding or sleepy. My wife and I plan the few trips that we make so that we don't encounter that situation.
Car crashes are no fun, for anyone. Want to go on an emotional 2 second rollercoaster ride? Get a call from your wife that says, "I've been in a bad wreck...I'm OK." My wife was in a wreck some months back like that. It had been raining so much and so hard that a lot of the roads around were detoured and still required you to drive through standing water of 8" or more. There was an unexpected stop in traffic, and a guy in an F250 with wet brakes plowed into the rear of my wife's car at probably 15 mph. Thank God for that Honda Civic. He hit her hard enough to bend the frame and push her 6 feet into an equipmant trailer in front of her. Hit her hard enough to knock of her shoes, her glasses, and sent her cell phone (resting in the cup holder) flying. It ended up on the ledge of the back window some how. She walked away without any injury. We only had that little Civic for about 6 months before it was destroyed in the wreck, but in my opinion, it was the best car we have ever owned.
I like that blackboard idea, Josh:):D Sometimes we take risks that we think only impact ourselves without understanding the possible ramifications it would have on our loved ones.

Jake
 
aproy1101 said:
You're such a class act Josh. I'm trying to learn, among many other things, to curb my aggressiveness, and reading your posts, and yours too Rob, are a big help. I didn't know if you knew you were teaching me like this, but you are. Both of you.

Again, I'm glad she's OK. Nobody got hurt but her, its a lesson learned.
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Heh, Andy, I've got enough anger and hatred to fuel a mid-sized third-world country if they could just figure out how to harness it!:D I just try not to show it too much.
 
Heh, Andy, I've got enough anger and hatred to fuel a mid-sized third-world country if they could just figure out how to harness it! I just try not to show it too much... Josh

The greatest untapped resource is a planet filling with billions of fingers making trillions of decisions with their mouse and keyboard; defeating alien invaders, walking dead, moving banking accessments from industry to wholesale; it's in the keystroke. We've got a Ga Zillion key strokes going on at any one time and that has to count for something. Most of them are wasted but if we could put the right indents at the right time we could do anything. The heat produced by the dancing fingers alone could heat a city.
I have to think somehow, all this typing is not intrinsically wasted. Looked at from Space within an alien eye, we're the dominant ant species piddling away at keyboards. What are those ants up to? They must have learned something in all those years.



munk
 
Well, you hide it MUCH better than I do. But I'm trying to learn. Being Cajun doesn't help.

A human typing energy machine huh, how Albus Huxley of you Munk....
 
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