[Leica] Greetings

[Scott Gregory]

A Very Merry Christmas to Ted and for that matter all the valued members of this long and friendly list wherever ye may be. 

Scott

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 3:43 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Crew,
> Driving? I'll try to make this short? ;-) But then you know me?  :-) :-) It's a story! 
> 
> I learned to drive at the age of 13. Drove all over the country side without a licence until I was old enough, 16 yrs to have one. But most of that was around the farm and backcountry roads. Not much traffic.
> 
> Since:
> 1/ I've drove tanks, Sherman's and Churchill's. Any number of reconnaissance       
>    type military scout cars. 
> 2/ STAGHOUND  GMC Armoured cars with 37mm main gun & twin engines.
> 3/In my twenties I drove "Sprint & Stock Car racing cars on dirt & Asphalt tracks.
> Oh had a few crash and burns and hospital trips! OOPS! :-(
> Never had any accidents of any kind driving legally on roads nor hywys.
> 
> A year ago driving in home town a guy started "honking at me!" The worst thing another driver can do to me! Urgent feelings of "kill!" Then I looked at my speedometer and I was only driving at 40 klm per hour on a 50 KLM street.
> I was so surprised I hadn't been paying attention to the speed limit nor my speedometer. 
> Next street to the right I turned  and parked, calmed down and thought about my actions, driving & attitude! :-( Calmed down, I drove home parked my car. My oldest grandson came over and took the car home and sold it!
> AND I'VE NEVER DRIVEN SINCE! That's a year now! :-(  It's driving me crazy every time I want to go shopping or wherever & maybe being  "CARELESS!"
> 
> I was in error when the other driver honked at me because I wasn't really paying attention to my driving looking at the "speedometer" which also means??????? 
> 
> "MAYBE I WASN'T PAYING PROPER ATTENTION TO OTHER THINGS!" :-( "What if my in-attention caused a crash or accident or I killed someone or myself??????? Can I drive today in my 87th year? YES!
> BUT? I believe in pure "COMMON SENSE" dictates my life whenever it's obvious. So there you go folks. "WHY I DON'T DRIVE!"
> SAFE DRIVING TO EVERYONE! :-)
> cheers,
> Dr.ted  :-) 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
> Sent: December-23-15 7:42 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Greetings
> 
> Herb, I'm only 85, so I shouldn't try to give advice to my elders, but I 
> will offer a few comments.  I find that daytime driving is no problem, 
> and a lot less stressful than driving at night, so I try to time my 
> errands, and even evening meals, a little earlier.  On my way home one 
> evening last week, I noticed that the car behind me was driving without 
> lights.  It is easy to forget the lights when there are street lights 
> every half-block.  You might want to consider investing the insurance 
> money in an inexpensive car to use for daytime errands.
> 
> Your cop story is certainly different from the ones that usually make 
> the news these days.  You might consider a "Letter to the Editor" of the 
> local paper, to show that the police do include some fine folks.
> 
> Glad you came through it ok.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
>> On 12/23/2015 12:38 AM, Herbert Kanner 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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