> Thanks everyone. Even though you're strangers, your sympathies mean a
> lot...because no one told you that you even had to say anything at all.
Yes I'm afraid what I said was about right.... maybe I should have said 'getting on for a million'. That's 40,000 Americans, 12,000 Portugese, 12,000 Mexians, 10,000 Japanese, 8,000 French, 3,500 British, I could go on, but I won't. It's my job to know.
http://www.factbook.net/EGRF_Introduction.htm
> I saw my friend last night, he looks really good for what's happened. He
> said "I'm up, I'm here, and I don't feel angry about what's
> happened." He was not at all how I expected...I mean, everyone thougt
> he'd be angry or depressed, but for an 18 year old who was pinned by a
> drunk driver and has had to have his leg removed because of it...he's
> doing incredibly well. He was smiling and laughing, and is just so
> positive and forward-facing. It was a great relief to see that he is doing
> so well, but he still has a long road ahead of him with his recovery and
> therapies, and such. I hope he keeps in his positive frame of mind. I
> still don't know much about what's going on with the other boy who was
> hit, his family doesn't want information on him released. I don't know
> him, but I truly hope he's gonna be all right. I found out last night that
> the drunk that ran into these boys is an old friend of my mother's. How's
> that for a twist.
> In response to David...I am sorry to hear of your friend who died in an
> auto accident. I've never known anyone who actually died, but I know three
> people who have come very close...and even that was a terrible experience.
> I can't imagine what it is like to lose someone in that way.
> In response to Tingle...is it really that meany people who die in
> auto-related incidents per year? The odds of something happening are far
> too great then, and something really should be done about it.
> Both my parents and my older sister have been arrested on DUI charges, my
> sister having been so twice and my father having been so twice. My sister
> was actually in two bad accidents as a result of her drunk driving, one
> where she flipped her car into someone's back yard, and one where she
> rammed a car into the side of a building. In both cases she totaled the
> car, and was the only one to get hurt thank God. Drunk drivers are always
> repeat offenders, they just don't get caught every time...which sucks for
> anyone else who is around when they are on the road. If I weren't so
> nervous a driver, I would be a designated driver and haul people
> around...but I keep myself from driving because I know that having a timid
> person behind the wheel is almost as much a hazard as throwing a drunk
> behind the wheel.
