RE: Re[4]: RE: didn't get s-bolt/gasket

From: The Man From Utopia (tmfu@home.com)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 19:30:33 EST


> <<You almost got the Darwin Award..... ;-)>>
>
> OUCH!
>
> Not to drag this out too much, but this is were dads can be
> really, really
> cool... I figured there was no sense in telling mom what
> happened 'cause she
> would just say, "Go tell your father.", so I decided to face
> the music
> directly. With bowed head I tell him the story and we go out
> and check out the
> damage. "Yep", he says, "Flattened it pretty good didn't
> you". Not knowing
> what to say, I say yes and ask if I should go get mom to show
> her what
> happened. Incredibly he says, "No, just go get the keys to
> her car". He puts
> her car away and later that evening he casually asks my mom,
> "Honey, when did
> you get that dent in your car?". After much confusion she
> goes running out to
> the garage with me and my old man in tow. Bewildered and
> upset my mom doesn't
> know what to say and my dad just stands there shaking his
> head saying how
> terrible it was that somebody would clip her car like that in
> the parking lot
> and not leave a note! There isn't a Hollywood actor known to
> man that could
> have pulled it off as smoothly as he did! Later that week we
> got her car into
> a shop and had everything repaired good as new.
>
> Needless to say I split a lot of wood and added a bunch of
> yards to the rock
> wall that summer... All with a smile on my face! :-)

Oh man that was cool!!!!

Greg
95 DSCC v6 5spd
Rahway NJ



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