We ARE a lucky bunch, aren't we. Looking outside this morning at the slush (we're expecting some lake effect snow, 3-7 inches today) and reading your car accident story, B, I have to tell you about one involving my mom and two of my siblings.
It was midwinter, snowing pretty good, and mom had just picked up her then two youngest, Mary and John (children #4 and 5), heading home in late afternoon along North Seward Ave in the family station wagon. She moved slightly to the right to let another car go by and hit a patch of black ice, sending the car into a full 360 degree spin, narrowly missing a huge maple. She managed to get out of the spin and pulled to the curb to catch her breath and check to see that the kids were okay. Whereupon from the back seat came a little voice saying, "that was fun, Mom. Do it again!" To this day she doesn't know which one of them said it (I'm guessing John) but she said she didnt know whether to smack 'em or laugh, she was so relieved. She white-knuckled it the last few blocks home and I have no doubt my Dad fixed her a nice big drink when she got there.
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