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| − | <br /><br /> | + | <br /><br />A couple of cars had slid into the ditch between the highway. Tow-trucks were already on the scene helping them out. But something worse had happened further on, beyond our seeing. One fire truck, then two. An ambulance and police cars. We were still inching along at about 5 miles an hour. Fernley was a long ways off.<br /><br />Of course I cannot indict myself in this article, so the accident I was involved in was someone else's fault! As I was driving straight through a green light on a city road (which one would think could never cause a problem), a driver coming in the opposite direction failed to yield for me before making his left turn. We collided in the intersection, and even though we were only driving about 30 mph, the other driver did $2,000 worth of damage to my car!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yes, you do have to be aware of possible fallout. If you DO name somebody publicly, you better have all your facts and be able to prove them. The last thing you want is to be brought to court on some libel suit. These can be very expensive. Imagine blasting somebody for not finishing a job on time and it turns out his wife had a baby that day. Forgetting [https://insotay.vn/ https://insotay.vn/] , that just turns into very bad PR for you.<br /><br />Being the early-bird that I am, I was up at 7:30 a.m. I took a peek out of the black-out drapes to see it had stopped snowing. However, there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the roads weren't plowed yet. I had no idea what awaited us. I grabbed a book for reading and Heather's cell phone to make calls--I wanted to let the girls sleep a couple more hours. I would definitely need my morning time today--my "alone" time, as I affectionately refer to it. There was still half a trip to make.<br /><br />In the grand scheme of things, use your head. It's easy to fly off the handle when something didn't go your way. We tend to exaggerate things when they're bad and diminish things when they're good. That's just human nature, which is why nobody takes a second look at a boy scout helping an old lady across the street but will cause a traffic jam 10 miles long when they see a five traffic pile up on the Garden State Parkway. God I avoid that road like the plague if I can.<br /><br />The back nine is a much better challenge than the front. It starts with yet another great par five, and like the two long holes on the front, is virtually unreachable in two. Every step of the way, accuracy is required on this hole, first with a fairway metal or long iron through a window that stays short of a creek, then another long shot that avoids a watery grave that lines the entire right side of the fairway. We played this one like we knew what we were doing, with Hansard rolling a ten-footer for birdie while I wasn't disappointed with a par.<br /><br />The main reason for this is that it is status quo to drive a normal car, live in a regular house with neighbors who like you for how you are and because you are just like everybody else, you live a happy life. |
Revision as of 09:53, 21 February 2020
A couple of cars had slid into the ditch between the highway. Tow-trucks were already on the scene helping them out. But something worse had happened further on, beyond our seeing. One fire truck, then two. An ambulance and police cars. We were still inching along at about 5 miles an hour. Fernley was a long ways off.
Of course I cannot indict myself in this article, so the accident I was involved in was someone else's fault! As I was driving straight through a green light on a city road (which one would think could never cause a problem), a driver coming in the opposite direction failed to yield for me before making his left turn. We collided in the intersection, and even though we were only driving about 30 mph, the other driver did $2,000 worth of damage to my car!
Yes, you do have to be aware of possible fallout. If you DO name somebody publicly, you better have all your facts and be able to prove them. The last thing you want is to be brought to court on some libel suit. These can be very expensive. Imagine blasting somebody for not finishing a job on time and it turns out his wife had a baby that day. Forgetting https://insotay.vn/ , that just turns into very bad PR for you.
Being the early-bird that I am, I was up at 7:30 a.m. I took a peek out of the black-out drapes to see it had stopped snowing. However, there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the roads weren't plowed yet. I had no idea what awaited us. I grabbed a book for reading and Heather's cell phone to make calls--I wanted to let the girls sleep a couple more hours. I would definitely need my morning time today--my "alone" time, as I affectionately refer to it. There was still half a trip to make.
In the grand scheme of things, use your head. It's easy to fly off the handle when something didn't go your way. We tend to exaggerate things when they're bad and diminish things when they're good. That's just human nature, which is why nobody takes a second look at a boy scout helping an old lady across the street but will cause a traffic jam 10 miles long when they see a five traffic pile up on the Garden State Parkway. God I avoid that road like the plague if I can.
The back nine is a much better challenge than the front. It starts with yet another great par five, and like the two long holes on the front, is virtually unreachable in two. Every step of the way, accuracy is required on this hole, first with a fairway metal or long iron through a window that stays short of a creek, then another long shot that avoids a watery grave that lines the entire right side of the fairway. We played this one like we knew what we were doing, with Hansard rolling a ten-footer for birdie while I wasn't disappointed with a par.
The main reason for this is that it is status quo to drive a normal car, live in a regular house with neighbors who like you for how you are and because you are just like everybody else, you live a happy life.
