Well⌠It seems I donât live the risk-off life of the OP and I wonât go into that, but if I did get cornered into risk:off 24/7, Iâm pretty certain that after a few years anxiety would compel me to ask the OP question. How long am I gonna liveâŚ
You canât have control over that. Love the people you love, cos thatâs all youâll have on your death bed. And shrouds donât have pockets, so money wonât be a comfort when that time comes.
Something like that could have happened to me when I was commuting by car each day. Whatever was the source of the rock, it looked like a kitchen-sponge hit the road in front of me, at highway speeds, and bounced up and hit my car. Put a long dent and gash in my hood, belted my port-side wiper-arm so hard that it bent pretty bad and the blade popped clean off and went flying, then ârolledâ up the windshield putting 3 big holes in the windshield that you could wiggle your finger through, then flew up and over the car.
I was wearing a button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, good thing I instinctively closed my eyes when it hit, âcause I was showered with shards of glass that painted little teeny dots of blood all over my exposed right arm, and I was picking out shards of glass from my sleeve âcuffsâ.
After the initial âwtf?!?â, I drove to work as normal, and visited the local precinct to report it, and then got sent to highway patrol âcause it was their jurisdiction.
Needless to say, it wasnât a kitchen-sponge but a big honkinâ fist-sized piece of concrete.
Had a few incidents like that which sometimes make you feel like youâre playing with house money.
Flying objects on the highway are very dangerous. Once I had something coming at me so fast I had no time to react on the interstate. Smacked the grill so hard I thought it put a hole in the radiator. Kept watching the temp. gage until I could pull over. Right now there is a circular crack in my windshield from a rock I think. Never saw it. Came off a truck coming from the opposite direction. Another time something from a log truck that passed me as I exited a 4 lane highway hit the windshield right in front of my wifeâs face. Luckily it didnât go through. Kids have been known to drop rocks off overpasses and they have killed many. Driving is like Russian Roulette.
Yeh, thatâs one thing that was suggested by HWY, that some idiot kids threw something off the LIRR overpass (which was about where it happened). Not sure how high a rock would bounce depending on the road material, so couldnât really say.
And there was that time a baby, in a car-seat, in the backseat, and in the middle, got killed dead by a bowling-ball(!) some shiite-for-brains thought would be âfunnyâ to drop onto the highway below. Went right through the windshield between both parents sitting in front.
Makes me think of this comedian Iâve seen â- In one of his jokes he talks about how people go up to the casket and say how so n so looks good âHe said hell no I want to look dead â I want people to come up and gag â say man whatâs that smell ââ
I wasn't thinking negatively. My father bought the lots for his whole family when he was terminal 20+ years ago. Then 10 years ago my best friend passed away and she was put in one of the lots. So I had a double headstone made to match my parents. Also, I had a 1500 pound 4 ft. granite statue custom made for her that was placed between our stone and my parents. Best statue in any cemetery for miles around.