Another test!!!

nsd_user663_1989

10 years ago

I went out last night to pick up my daughter at a friends house. On the way, a deer ran out in front of my brand new beautiful car or should I say NOT so beautiful anymore!!!! ArGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! I was so pissed, upset & traumatized at the same time all I wanted to do is smoke! Thank god I had none nor did anyone who stopped to see if I was ok. Yes, I did actually ask someone:mad: I had never seen anything like it except in movies. The deer bounced off my car and shot up into air. I thought it was going to come through my windshield but it landed on the road instead. Needless to say she was done for I am glad I was ok and didn't smoke afterall! I wonder if I actually would have lit the damn thing?????????????

Thank god youre ok, and well done for laying off the smokes!!

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nsd_user663_2318

10 years ago

Thank you!

For those of you who cared for my well being thank you so much. I am so grateful that I was not injured. The deer can be a problem here because we are way overpopulated with them. They have considered extending hunting season in the past few years to control the population. some of you may think that is cruel however they will die of starvation otherwise. It is their breeding season right now so they are running about with no care. this is the time of year here that you will see countless deer lying dead on the roadside as the result.

For those of you that find it a joke and think that all I am worried about is a "piece of metal" all I can say is think what u must. I am quite aware that my "piece of metal' can be replaced. I am upset because I worked damn hard for the past 25 yrs to purchase it. It is the 1st new car I have ever owned after driving countless pieces of crap!

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nsd_user663_1930

10 years ago

Hi OverTheEdge,

I don't think any one on this forum thinks whats happened to you is a joke, especially me.

I have been in and had close friends in the same situation as you many times both in cars and motor bikes. Unfortunately some of which for my friends have been fatal.

If my post offended you then I apologize, but I remember what my wife said when we got out of the car damaged by the brick wall. Once we had established we were not injured she instantly went into "Oh look at the state of the car, what are we going to do?", which is where the "It's just a piece of metal comes into it.". And two years prior to that when I crashed a motor bike and was lucky to survive a friend of mine told me to stop worrying about the motor bike (Which is where I originally got the statement from).

Maybe I should have said "If you are worried about the car, try not to be, after all it can be replaced. Just thank god that no-one was injured".

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nsd_user663_2318

10 years ago

Sorry~

Hi OverTheEdge,

I don't think any one on this forum thinks whats happened to you is a joke, especially me.

I have been in and had close friends in the same situation as you many times both in cars and motor bikes. Unfortunately some of which for my friends have been fatal.

If my post offended you then I apologize, but I remember what my wife said when we got out of the car damaged by the brick wall. Once we had established we were not injured she instantly went into "Oh look at the state of the car, what are we going to do?", which is where the "It's just a piece of metal comes into it.". And two years prior to that when I crashed a motor bike and was lucky to survive a friend of mine told me to stop worrying about the motor bike (Which is where I originally got the statement from).

Maybe I should have said "If you are worried about the car, try not to be, after all it can be replaced. Just thank god that no-one was injured".

I thought the brick wall was a joke! How does a brick wall jump out at you? Sorry for thinking u were being rude. I know it's just a car, but i really loved it and it wont be the same because here they will do whatever is the cheapest to fix it!:mad:

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nsd_user663_1930

10 years ago

Hi OverTheEdge,

It was a nice summers morning in the UK and it had just rained for about 30 minutes so the roads where a bit slippery. I was on my way to work at about 6:30 am and I thought it would be cool to turn off my traction control and have a little skid coming out of a round about. Needless to say the 325i BMW with 200 Horse Power and rear wheel drive was a bit more than I could handle. Spinning out of the corner at about 40 mph we drifted over a public footpath and into a garden wall. I just claim the wall jumped out infront of me, but it was definately my fault.

Now that just goes to show how immature I was many years ago. After that experience I plod about in my car now like an old man.

My first brand new BMW, cost more than my mortgate payment a month and I trashed it after having it for 6 months :mad: All my fault :mad: But like I said thank god my golf clubs were okay...

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nsd_user663_2318

10 years ago

Car crash~

I could not get in a car for some time due to flash backs

I would not like to be in a car crash or be hit by a car weather I am a human or an animal, it sickens me the sound of the metal caving in and the grinding and then that tick tick noise when it all comes to a halt and the metal starts to expand

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I have only been in 1 accident w/another vehicle, but i will never forget it. A drunk woman ran a stop sign and I broadsided her doing 50mph. I was driving a big ol SUV at the time(thank goodness) because it is the what saved my life. The woman had to be cut out of her vehicle because of the extent of the damage. She was airlifted to the nearest trauma center with head/neck and spinal trauma. I walked out of my car! I will never forget that noise as long as I live!!! My first 2 children were in the car with me that day. They were both very small at the time. We were so lucky

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nsd_user663_1930

10 years ago

I am (or was) a very keen golfer... Unfortunately I cannot go back to those days again, it just takes too much time up. On average I use to play 4 times a week, there was one time I played 10 games in 9 days (That was before the first born came :)).

Now the family is started to resemble a small community I cannot see myself disappearing for 6 hours on a Saturday or Sunday morning again. We use to tee off at 5:30 am in the peak of the summer but by the time you've had a fry up at the club house and a drink afterwards you don't get back home until gone midday and then all you want to do is sleep cause you were up to early.

Blooming good fun though... But no... No more golfing thoughts... Albeit my 5 year old is getting handy with his 7 Iron on the local field... Well handy enough to hit his grandad with a golf ball the other day...

Grandad wasn't impressed but I just asked the question, "Were you infront of my boy when he was hitting the shot?", and grandad said yes, I then responded "It's your fault then isn't it!".

Take a crocodile for example, there is a safe end and a not so safe end. Well it's the same with golf, there's a safe place to stand and a not so safe place to stand. Grandad was obviously in the "not so safe place".

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nsd_user663_1930

10 years ago

Hang in here Barney, it isn't all that bad, okay some things may have been said that shouldn't have been, but they were re-actions to badly worded posts (It's just got everyones backs up).

I communicate via email for nearly 99% of my business communications and I read emails maybe 3 or 4 times before responding. I have got one client who comes across as a complete arse, but he just isn't very good at expressing himself via email (Comes across as very demanding, which use to annoy me, but once I realized that, it wasn't a problem anymore).

What I am trying to say is that it is very easy to mis-read posts on a forum and get very annoyed about things.

Now in my opinion (and please hear me out before shooting me down), it probably wasn't prudent for Boudee to post that last message, however I can see why.

People who do not live with it on a daily basis have no idea!

That statement even got me a bit annoyed, as I live in the country and live in the middle of a woodland area that has deers running through it and across its roads. The statement comes across as very condesending and arrogant.

However as I said before it may not have been meant in the context that it comes across in.

Now OverTheEdge and Kenzo are probably not going to be impressed, but lets not let a little thing like this grow out of proportion.

Now OverTheEdge expressed a concern about having to find $500.00 for some of the repairs etc... Now putting the shoe on the other foot I could have said "That's nothing to worry about, you want to try running your own business, then you'll understand what money worries are."

Which would probably invoke a response similar to Boudee's, but aimed at me.

What I am trying to say, is that my example assumes that my money worries would out weigh OverTheEdge's purely because of the amount involved. Which just isn't true, OverTheEdge may be concerned about finding $500.00 but the stress is the same (maybe more) for OverTheEdge than it is for me trying to pay a $50,000.00 wage bill a month.

The "have no idea!" statement is assuming that the animal problem is more of a problem and worry in New Jersey than in the UK. But at the end of the day it only takes one to cause an accident, the worry and concern is the same for everyone living in a high animal populated area.

So may I suggest that we all take a deep breath and move forward, putting this little hiccup behind us all.

And Barney, come home!!!!!!!!!!!

No my coffee has gone cold, as its taken sooo long to compose this message.

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nsd_user663_2318

10 years ago

I communicate via email for nearly 99% of my business communications and I read emails maybe 3 or 4 times before responding. I have got one client who comes across as a complete arse, but he just isn't very good at expressing himself via email (Comes across as very demanding, which use to annoy me, but once I realized that, it wasn't a problem anymore).

What I am trying to say is that it is very easy to mis-read posts on a forum and get very annoyed about things.

That statement even got me a bit annoyed, as I live in the country and live in the middle of a woodland area that has deers running through it and across its roads. The statement comes across as very condesending and arrogant.

However as I said before it may not have been meant in the context that it comes across in.

Now OverTheEdge expressed a concern about having to find $500.00 for some of the repairs etc... Now putting the shoe on the other foot I could have said "That's nothing to worry about, you want to try running your own business, then you'll understand what money worries are."

Which would probably invoke a response similar to Boudee's, but aimed at me.

What I am trying to say, is that my example assumes that my money worries would out weigh OverTheEdge's purely because of the amount involved. Which just isn't true, OverTheEdge may be concerned about finding $500.00 but the stress is the same (maybe more) for OverTheEdge than it is for me trying to pay a $50,000.00 wage bill a month.

You are absloutely right about things being out of text! I did not post to be rude i was simply stating to those who live in more densly populated areas would not experience this sort of thing.

As far as the money issue not all of us a wealthy! $500 is alot for me. Maybe not for you but is for 4 me. I want to thank all of you for bringing me to tears! I will not be posting on this forum anymore because too much is taken the wrong way and i am not in a very stable state of mind in the present. i simply came on here to post about an almost blip & it has been blown way out of proportion! take care!

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