Give me quotes or give me death!

[Ahhlee]

In all my years of driving on bad roads, it's the first time that's ever happened to me. If the slough hadn't slowed me down, I would have hit the other side of the ditch and flipped over.

 

Some friends drove out and towed me out. On the ride home there were others who had skidded off the road, too. Thankfully everyone was getting help and no one looked hurt.

[snafu]

I flipped over in a ditch filled with water once. I woke up looking out the back window as water was filling in. I crawled to the drivers side and kicked out the window.

[emkay64]

"As I was skidding backwards along the highway veering towards the ditch, I would like to say I said something dignified and Carrie Underwoodesque like 'Jesus, take the wheel', but alas that is not the case.

 

Instead, in those seconds that felt like hours, my mind reflected on the people I love, lists/tasks left incomplete and hopes and dreams unrealized. As I felt the back end hit the ditch, I realized my last thought was going to be...'Huh. I'm going to go flipping through a field. Fukk.'"

 

- Ali after sliding across the ice yesterday and winding up stuck backwards, in the opposing ditch, and in a slough.

 

Holy Crap Lady! Glad you're okay!

 

I did that...but rolled the truck...took out a telephone pole and totalled the truck. Then spent the ambulance ride rubbing green paint off my neck. Apparently the telephone pole ripped through the truck and dragged against the roll bar showering my neck with green paint. I like to think I didn't die because there is an other worldly plan for me that has yet to be decided. When I realized it was inevitable, I felt really calm...but too fast to do much thinking.

 

Scarey though huh?

[Ahhlee]

Well we are just an amazing bunch of survivors, y'all!

 

Or bad drivers?

 

Nahhh....I vote survivors.

[Old Salt]

Yeah, Survivors.... That's what we are, survivors.

 

Would make an interesting thread - stories of near death experiences and other harrowing tales.

[wez]

Sh t Ali.. glad you're ok.. .. I did much the same thing on black ice one time..

 

 

Yeah, Survivors.... That's what we are, survivors.

 

Would make an interesting thread - stories of near death experiences and other harrowing tales.

 

Once skidded to a stop with the hood halfway under a semi trailer.. yay me.

[wez]

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is .. What is the quality of our love? ~ Richard Bach

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ImWithStupid]

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H. L. Mencken

[ImWithStupid]

"That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else." ~ H. L. Mencken

[wez]

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. ~ Source Unknown

 

 

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it. ~ Virgil

 

 

[wez]

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~ Wayne Dyer

 

 

Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ Proverb

 

 

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

 

 

My karma ran over your dogma. ~ Author Unknown

 

 

[wez]

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~ Jawaharial Nehru

 

 

[wez]

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ~ Wayne Dyer

 

 

 

'Tis better to buy a small bouquet

And give to your friend this very day,

Than a bushel of roses white and red

To lay on his coffin after he's dead. ~ Author Unknown

 

 

 

[mercury]

holy cow woman... I didn't see your ditch story until just now. Glad you came out of it okay!

 

I've got a tons of sliding on ice/ending up in ditches stories. I drove a firebird for 5 years (not exactly a snowbird vehicle ).

 

One time, I did a series of 360's down the middle of a 2 lane highway while the car in front of me and the one behind me did the same thing. It was kind of like a ballet in it's beauty... especially considering none of us plowed into each other or ended up wrapped around a light pole. I think I did say "Jesus, take the wheel!" for that one... I let go and just "enjoyed" the ride.

[wez]

Someone finds salvation in everyone, another only pain

Someone tries to hide himself, down inside himself he prays

Someone swears his true love until the end of time

Another runs away, separate or united, healthy or insane

And to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah ~ Chris Cornell

 

[RoyalOrleans]

I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But I am not a government official.

 

-RO

[wez]

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. ~ Og Mandino

 

 

 

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.~ Carl Jung

 

 

[wez]

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~ Buddha

 

 

 

[Chopper]

There are only 3 types of people in this world - Those who can add up and those who can't !

[ImWithStupid]

7 out of 5 people don't understand fractions. ~ Unknown

[eddo]

there are 10 kinds of people in the world.

 

 

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

[wez]

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ~ Cynthia Heimel

 

 

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned ~ Arabian Proverb

 

 

 

 

[Chopper]

"Get thee behind me Satan " My Granny now long gone !

[RoyalOrleans]

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president -- except me!

 

- Barry Goldwater

[eddo]

"Since the election I've been sleeping like a baby. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry ..."

 

-John McCain