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Old 08-03-2007, 10:21 AM   #18
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Driving to work at DFW at about 4am one stormy morning, with rain pounding on my windshield so hard I had to stop under several overpasses to let cloudbursts pass (if you've never seen just how hard it can rain in Texas, you haven't seen rain), and about 1/8 mile from the next overpass I was going to pause under lightning struck somewhere so close to me that I was literally blinded for a few seconds. I think I actually cried.

Either that, or the time my accelerating cruise control got stuck in the open position (eg: accelerating w/out need for gas pedal) and I was going 85 mph up the steep side of the grapevine WITH the brakes on at 2am. Same story as Alex, only add me pulling off on some dark mountain road exit, throwing my car into neutral, shutting the engine off, pulling the parking brake and flying out of my car, only to discover my wheels glowing orange, thinking my car was on fire, realizing my cell phone was out of power as I tried to call 911 and got cut off, and finally being rescued by some random old couple that drove past (on this quiet lonely road where so few cars drove by), and by that time being able to tell 911 I'm okay and that my discs were apparently just glowing hot, but not actually on fire (because the glow died down over this 20-minute period)
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