[Leica] Greetings

[Gene Duprey]

Good to hear you are OK.

Gene


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:02 AM, lluisripollphotography <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> +1 I’m glad too to hear you are well!
>
> Happy Christmas!
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> > El 23 des 2015, a les 16:04, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
> va escriure:
> >
> > Glad you're safe Herb!
> >
> > And thank you for telling us the whole story, which has a tinge of the
> Xmas spirit in it.
> >
> > Sorry you feel driving is no longer safe for you though. However,
> please, do keep clicking!
> >
> > Amitiés
> > Philippe
> >
> > Le 23 déc. 2015 à 07:38, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> a écrit :
> >
> >> 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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