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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 14:25:06 GMT
The recent death of Neal Peart has me listening to my favorite Rush song: Red Barchetta.
Today, I dug up the 1973 short story on which the song is based, A Nice Morning Drive.
Like too many dystopian stories of the past, this one was prophetic, but unaware of how bad things can really get.
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Post by joebill on Jan 20, 2020 19:17:18 GMT
Reminds me of when I was logging and when I went to town I became aware that for weeks I had been maneuvering around the woods, only stopping when I felt something solid in the way.
You can pretty much drive through the woods by braille, but in town you have to use your eyes and stop BEFORE you hit something. I was OK in the car, but if I had to drive the truck to town I had to monitor my every move.
Strangely, my EMT friend says that they seem to be finally getting it right on the newer cars, at least on the safety side. He says that increasingly they will go to a wreck, upon seeing it be sure nobody could have survived, start questioning the rubberneckers standing around and discover that they were, indeed, in the wreck.
Of course, it is prob'ly easier to total a car than it has ever been. We bought a '96 Neon brand new, daughter drove it to Sweetwater to meed the school bus on Friday. Drove it back home without noticing anything wrong, it sat around the house all day Saturday, girls got in and drove it to church on Sunday and as it arrive home I was standing in the yard talking to a cowboy who observed that it looked like it had some hail damage.
We looked it over carefully and found a bunch of dings, took it in for an estimate and State Farm gave us a check for a total loss. We bought it back for $300 and drove it to death, but imagine a new car being totaled over damage it took days to even notice!
We put about 100K on it, sold it to a neighbor for $700 and he got into a fight in the Rodeo Tavern, the guy went out and whizzed in the Neon's gas tank. Thus ended the noble neon. He never got around to dropping the tank and putting it back on the road......Joe
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