On 11/14/2015 3:51 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 11/14/2015 2:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2015-11-14 12:11 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

>>> Except for when you have no control over what happens. People are
>>> killed and injured when stopped at traffic lights or at a toll booth.
>>> Your only hop is the structure of your car.
>>>
>>> Some years ago I was the third owner of a car that was involved in seven
>>> accidents in its life. In every case, the car was stopped. Three times
>>> it was not occupied.
>>
>> When I first met my wife she had a red Karmen Ghia that was jinxed.
>> Someone backed into it the first day she had it, and it was backed into
>> another time. She and I both had fenderbenders in that car. We sold it
>> to a guy that I knew from high school and in less than a month it was
>> totalled when a cement truck ran into it.
>>
>
> Mine was a green Karmen Ghia. I bought it after it was hit by a student
> driver the day after the front was just repainted after the last hit. It
> was hit in the back and pushed into another car.

I think some cars just don't have good presence or something. People
don't see you. I had a Peugeot, an icy blue, that people would stare
at until the last moment when I could possibly slam on the brakes to
avoid them pulling out on me. Happened all the time. I think I just
looked like I was going 25 or something.

nancy