RE: A sad loss.... WAS: Re: Drive April

["Khan M. Klatt" <kmk@pacificrim.net>]

I say count your BLESSINGS (pun intended, no offense, Jason), if you got
away with a bruise. The best advice I can give is to really sit down and
analyze what you did wrong in the situation, and then look REALLY seriously
at the way you drive from the perspective of avoiding such an accident in
the future from here on out. Pay attention to the way you're driving (not
tailgating, watching past the car in front of you for brake lights, etc.)
and then consider it a lesson learned, and forget about it. Don't dwell on
it, as long as you've taught yourself a lesson. And hey, it was a lease,
right? And you've got insurance...

Once you pay off the deductible, go get a new one, baby! :)

- -Khan

At 1:32 PM -0800 3/13/98, Jason Blessing wrote:
>Ya know it really isn't as much as the physical thought of it but the
>emotional state of mind that you have to get over.
>
>Hope it works out for ya.
>
>Jason
>
>	-----Original Message-----
>	From:	Greg Wright [SMTP:gregory@slmd.com]
>	Sent:	Friday, March 13, 1998 11:59 AM
>	To:	Jason Blessing
>	Cc:	'patrick@volkswagen.org'; Chris Warren (E-mail); Curt
>Cranfield (E-mail); Jeff Newton [Newton@Pmc-Sierra.Bc.Ca] (E-mail); Khan
>M. Klatt (E-mail); Mark A. Ellis (E-mail); Scott Catlin
>[scott.catlin@sierra.com] (E-mail); Shaun Farnham (E-mail);
>jettaglx@igtc.com
>	Subject:	A sad loss....      WAS: Re: Drive April
>
>	Well I was all geared up to trade in my leased 1996 Jetta
>	GLS for this brand new 1998, Classic Green, Jetta GLX until
>	I ran my '96 into the back of a Ford Explorer this morning
>	around 8:40 mid span on the I520 bridge east bound (My apologies
>	to any locals caught in the resulting traffic).
>
>	Nothing is sadder than seeing your baby smashed up in the
>	middle of the road leaking fluids all over. I just walked
>	around it, ignoring the passing traffic, and shook my head.
>	I couldn't believe I had done that to my baby. A horrible
>	site indeed.
>
>	On the good side, the Jetta turns out to be a very safe
>	ride. I fired both air bags and we had our seat belts on.
>	I was the only one hurt and that was just a bruise on
>	my stomach from the wheel I guess. The entire front end
>	of the car is about half as long as it use to be. What
>	about the Ford explorer you ask? It has a few cosmetic
>	scratches on its rear bumper.
>
>
>	I am sure all you fellow Jetta owners felt the loss as
>	a disturbance in the force.
>
>	Hanging my head,
>	greg.
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