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Re: Spridget-Spridget near miss

To: "andi payn" <payn@null.net>, "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Spridget-Spridget near miss
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:45:23 -0400
Reply-to: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
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Andi 

Did you get her name and number, and give her the list address??

Larry

>>>>On 9/28/99 17:24 so and so (andi payn) said. (And I quote:)

>It's not often that I see another Spridget driving to work (I wouldn't
>expect to see too many driving 15 minutes across Hollywood, but I almost
>always see a Fiat or an Alfa...). But this morning, not only did I see two
>Midgets, not only were they both late 70s rubber-bumper Midgets like mine,
>but the second almost collided with me.
>
>Here's the story:
>
>I noticed a gap in the middle of the steady stream of traffic on the
>opposite side of the street. As I got closer, it became apparent that there
>was something rarer than a gap in traffic: an actual car--not an SUV, not a
>minivan, not a truck, but a car--in fact, a Midget. Painted... I guess
>you'd call it Miata blue (darker than the light blue Midget I saw five
>minutes earlier, and pretty close to the color of my dad's stock Miata).
>
>I waved to the driver, she waved back to me. The SUV in front of her
>slammed on the brakes, and she was still apparently in shock at seeing
>another person driving something smaller than a house and therefore failed
>to notice. I honked, she slammed on her brakes, her car skidded across the
>center of the road, I hit my brake and pulled over to the right, and her
>bumper came to rest about an inch from my door (and therefore two inches
>from my ribs).
>
>Well, it all turned out ok. No damage to either car, and I even still got
>to work on time, but I thought someone here might appreciate the story.


Larry Macy
78 Midget

Keep your top down and your chin up.

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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