Thursday, December 15, 2016
Greetings Laff Lovers,
My reflexes got the better of me today. And it cost me a big, fat, paycheck, too.
When I was out at lunch today I made a couple of personal stops. After the last one I was in my car getting ready to back out of my parking spot, and like I always do I threw my hand over the backrest, turned to look out the back window and backed out into the lane.
Just as I stopped and was about to grab the gear shift to throw the vehicle into Drive, I saw the reverse lights on a delivery truck in a spot just opposite me flash on.
And it was a delivery truck that belonged to one of the big companies. The really big companies.
In the space of about one-and-a-half seconds his brake lights went off, the truck accelerated 3 or 4 feet straight toward my driver's side door, and without thinking my hand paused half-way between the wheel and the shifter and slammed on the horn.
His truck jerked to a stop six inches from my door and a half a second later my brain kicked in and I thought to myself, "Damn! I should have let him hit me."
How often have I fantasized about a driver for some big, heavily insured company running me off the road?
And there I was, in the ideal situation. I would have leapt out of my car, clutching my neck in agony, and begin rolling around the parking lot screaming for a lawyer.
What do you think something like that would be worth? $25k?
But no, my finely-tuned, lightning-like reflexes over-rode the higher, insurance fraud functions of my brain and saved me from what might very well have been a bruised elbow and a five-figure check.
Merry Christmas to me.
Disappointedly,
TZ
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