pepperman said:
barry 2952, are you going to let him get away with that comment. :biggrin:
What was there to be offended by?
Just a little story about insurance. When I got engaged (back in 1971) my fiance (who is still my wife) suggested that I put my '68 Firebird in her name to take advantage of the fact that young women had much lower rates than young men.
I thought it was a great idea. My premiums dropped from $600.00 a year (a ton of money in 1971) to $250.00 a year. Boy, did we think we were smart. About two weeks later I get a letter from AAA making me an "excluded driver" on my own car.
Luckily, I had a full time job as an apprentice electrician and I got to take the truck home at night. It sucked going out to dinner in what looked like an old bread truck.
We got married in 1972 and AAA dropped the exclusion. I had actually found a good reason for getting married.
Sorry to hear about your loss, Dertyclown. Our friends lost their 19-year old son to inexperienced driving recently. He also went wide on a curve and tried to get the tires back on the road but got caught in that common drop-off between the asphalt and the gravel shoulder. He yanked the steering wheel too hard and put the vehicle sideways. He got tossed on the first flip and landed on his chest. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt because it didn't work. His parents had given him the money to fix it the day before, but he decided to blow off the repair and class and was on his way to go fishing when the accident occured.
Please don't take this as a lecture but your destruction of public property didn't do your friend any good. In fact, your parents and you will pay for the damages in higher taxes. Sorry, I never understood defacing property as fun.