Today's post was written by my co-worker Greg. He intended to send this yesterday, but we had a lot of drama going on in the Production/Scheduling department.
On Wednesday, 9/13/00, one of the strangest car accidents happened at the Zoeller Company. An elderly lady was driving north on Cane Run Road in front of the main office. When she was in front of the company, she said another car forced her off of the road. It's a little bit sketchy about where this "other" car was coming from. Anyway, the only place for her car to go was into the Zoeller Company's parking lot. Since she had already passed the entrance she made her own by driving through the fence in front of the building. The fence flipped up and then came back down on top of Dora McKnight's car. Dora's car received scratches to the hood and front-end. Next, Karen Hunt's car, an expensive 2000 Volvo, received a collision with the elderly lady's car on Karen's left-front side. The impact spun Karen's car 180 degrees so it was now facing the main office. Then, Sheryl Wood's car absorbed the majority of the elderly lady's carnage as the elderly lady's car smashed into the middle of Sheryl's drivers' side. Finally, the elderly lady's big day ended as her car came to a stop. Unfortunately, it stopped because it couldn't push Sheryl's car through Rita Prechtel's car. Rita's car was approximately one spot away from Sheryl's car. Rita's car received damage all along the driver's side from Sheryl's car. The elderly lady only had liability insurance with a maximum payout of $10,000. Dora's car is the only one that survived. Karen's, Sheryl's and Rita's cars were all totaled.
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In an addendum to today's post, I bring breaking news from the Zoeller Company. Just a few hours ago, we had yet another parking lot incident. No cars were wrecked in this one, thank goodness. Once again, a car driving north on Cane Run Road veered off the road and hit the fence. A PAT was driving, and witnesses say he got out to check HIS OWN car for damage, unconcerned about the other cars around him, and once he saw Zoeller employees walking toward him, he jumped back in his car and drove off. There was no damage reported; just alot of dirt on Alan Nachby's car. It's very coincidental that this accident happend the day after the anniversary of the Great Parking Lot Crash of 2000.
I love and respect our senior citizens, but many of them have no more business out driving a car than the PATs we all gripe about. There should be mandatory yearly driver testing for folks over 70, but that's just my opinion.
This brings us to another acronym that I will be using more and more as the days go by: COP = Crazy Old People. Being 41, I consider myself sanely between PATs and COPs.
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