Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:47:21 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ern's Passat Passes On...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> eva.whitley at gmail.com 7/13/2006 12:41:42 PM >>>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Ern's Passat Passes On...
>
>> elilley at mindspring.com 7/11/2006 4:51:31 PM >>> On the way up to
>>Readercon, following Paul and Gayle, I tried to cross the wrong road
at
>>the wrong time. Half a second sooner would have been fine...but half
a
>>second later and you'd probably be running an obit on me.
>>As it is, I'm fine, the other driver is fine...but the Passat is
>almost
>>certainly passing on.
>
>Good you survived.  Sorry about the car.
>
><rest snipped>
>
>It's Mike Walsh's fault. My last car accident was when I was on my
way
>to Mike's office to deliver some Mirage Press stuff to him.
Obviously,
>this makes it his fault.

Gee... thanks...

>
>I'll use your "half a second" note as my new justification for
>speeding. (A sore subject lately since I got my first speeding ticket
>yesterday, after a clean record of 34 years of driving. And on New
>York Avenue, too. When I think of all the times I've had to drive
>slowly on that road, I think I was justified in going 11 mph over the
>speed limit, but I doubt if DC judges would see it that way.)

You are just a source of income to the city...

mjw
"This sentence no verb."