[Leica] Greetings

[Tina Manley]

What a nice story of kindness!  I'm so glad you are OK!!

Tina

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Happy holidays everyone.
>
> I’ve been pretty disorganized all week and not thinking about photography.
> My car was totaled last Friday evening by what must have been a drunk
> driving without headlights. My car was hit from the right at about a
> forty-five degree angle as I was making a left turn. Street showed no
> headlights as far as I could see in either direction and there was no flash
> of light at my car interior as I was hit. The car spun around, crossed the
> street in the process and ended up in the grass in a park, facing the
> street I had been on. I wasn’t even bruised. Airbags did not deploy. I
> never got any details about the other driver other than that he was taken
> to the hospital, claiming pain. Street so wide that I couldn’t even
> distinguish between cop cars, and the one that hit me. Cops didn’t cross
> the street; the cop with me knew nothing about what was known on the other
> side of the street. He just got my story. All I could do re reporting the
> incident to my insurance company was to tell them to get the police report.
>
> An amazing thing did happen. The young cop on my side was chatting me up.
> Possibly to see if I was campus mantis and sober. The conversation got into
> where I was heading, a specific restaurant that I named, and what I was
> planning to eat: a steak, rare.
>
> After the two truck took both cars away, the cop gave me a lift home in
> the back of the squad car. About fifteen minutes later, the doorbell rang.
> It was the cop, holding a plastic sack. He went to that restaurant and
> bought me dinner; refused compensation. I got to tell his sergeant about it
> over the phone, and was told the cop would get a commendation.
>
> Because I’m 93, I can’t tell how many driving years are left in me, and I
> decided not to go through the hassle of buying a car but just use Uber and
> Lyft services.
>
> Herb
>
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
>
> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
>
>
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