The wreck was back in 2001. I'm mostly over it, but sometimes "stuff happens".
What annoys me is people belittling my triggers after I was killed riding my bicycle (I came back after a few minutes, but the experience was Not Good). One of those is getting passed too close, as in "if I can touch the car you're Too Close", and other illegal passing, like when I knocked the mirror off the truck that passed me in my lane on the right while I was preparing to make a left turn. That one was really bad because 1) too close 2) on the right 3) there was only one lane in each direction so technically not legal to pass. Cop said the driver could sue me for smashing the mirror, I asked if the driver was going to get a ticket for the 3 illegal things he did and cop said I was in the wrong which was another trigger. I responded to that one by quoting the law that dictated where in the lane I was supposed to be including the designator (TX VC 551.103(b) at the time. Enough ranting, tl;dr I have triggers because of Traffic Violence.
Why does Simon assume that because it's vegan his chili is safe for everyone? I used to make a bean and tofu chili that I had a release and hold harmless agreement drawn up for. There were a lot of extremely hot peppers in that one.
Well, I counted 33 boxes visible in the comic, and anything over 24 is "a lot" of cookies. That's like $165 in GS cookies.
If the family is good with this I should be also, but I'm not. The article mis-states what happened to the rider in the wreck, making it sound like the wreck was partly the cyclist's fault, when the cyclist only barely missed hitting the SUV head-on by a fraction of an inch. This was 100% the fault of the driver pulling into a group of cyclists riding totally within the law and scattering them like a covey of quail. And the sentence handed down basically stated that's fine, unless the driver lost his license to drive for the rest of his life as a result of this wreck.
Just saying, from personal experience, that the adrenaline rush you get from being in a wreck blocks pain. I have known people with undisplaced fractures walking away from wrecks only to collapse after getting home and the fracture displacing. I was || this close to losing a leg, and I barely felt anything. Until the adrenaline crash and then they had to put me in a coma...
Adrenaline can be quite a pain blocker. When I was hit the only injury I was aware of was what I thought was a hip injury, that was a broken hip, on top of a broken femur, on top of both cruciate ligaments and the meniscus of my knee, on top of a broken fibula and tibia with a giant hole in the front of the lower leg with muscles and blood vessels hanging out of it. Not to mention all the skin I left on the pavement after being propelled 50 feet over the ground and 16 feet up in the air and landing on my face... Like I said, all I knew was I hurt my hip, until the adrenaline wore off. That's when they put me in a coma...
The mode of wreck is what we cyclists call a right hook and is mostly caused by the motor vehicle operator failing to make a clean pass before turning right. The initial report had some discrepancies about if the motorcycle was far enough in front of the cyclist for the cyclist to even be able to see the turn signal, much less react to it. If the cyclist was filing for actual damages then the city is getting off light indeed. When I got hit my medical expenses exceeded $250,000, not counting loss of income from the 4 months I was bedridden and the loss of employment after my brain damage was discovered. On the positive side my IQ is now low enough to be hired as LEO...
When we moved to Morocco back in 1969 our PanAm flight was so lightly loaded everybody in my family had an entire row of seats to themselves. And back then they would take the arms from between the seats and the seat bottoms were flat so my 11YO self had as close as you could get to a sleeper berth on an airplane. They were even letting people from 1st class into Economy to enjoy the space. Now the 1971 return trip was during the height of tourist season, so no beds on that flight.
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