Was she cute and did you get her number?
Curtis Carlson
'66 Austin Healey Sprite MkIII ("Gerty") HAN8L-63423
'72 MG Midget MkIII ("unnamed")
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Research Geographer 612.931.3936 (voice)
Navigation Technologies 612.931.3937 (fax)
5780 Lincoln Dr Ste. 100 612.251.7492 (mobile)
Edina, MN 55436 carlson@navtech.com
----- Original Message -----
From: andi payn <payn@null.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:24 PM
Subject: Spridget-Spridget near miss
> It's not often that I see another Spridget driving to work (I wouldn't
> expect to see too many driving 15 minutes across Hollywood, but I almost
> always see a Fiat or an Alfa...). But this morning, not only did I see two
> Midgets, not only were they both late 70s rubber-bumper Midgets like mine,
> but the second almost collided with me.
>
> Here's the story:
>
> I noticed a gap in the middle of the steady stream of traffic on the
> opposite side of the street. As I got closer, it became apparent that
there
> was something rarer than a gap in traffic: an actual car--not an SUV, not
a
> minivan, not a truck, but a car--in fact, a Midget. Painted... I guess
> you'd call it Miata blue (darker than the light blue Midget I saw five
> minutes earlier, and pretty close to the color of my dad's stock Miata).
>
> I waved to the driver, she waved back to me. The SUV in front of her
> slammed on the brakes, and she was still apparently in shock at seeing
> another person driving something smaller than a house and therefore failed
> to notice. I honked, she slammed on her brakes, her car skidded across the
> center of the road, I hit my brake and pulled over to the right, and her
> bumper came to rest about an inch from my door (and therefore two inches
> from my ribs).
>
> Well, it all turned out ok. No damage to either car, and I even still got
> to work on time, but I thought someone here might appreciate the story.
>
>
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