Re: AAAAAARRRRGH!!!

"The Reverend Natural Light" <reverend@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:33628593-539d-4895-b99a-4c51d6c70b26@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I decided to take the day off work and get some things done around the
> house.  About 11:00, the school calls to say that my step-daughter-to-
> be is sick and needs to go home.  Fiancee jumps into the SUV and it
> won't start (I later determine that it is TOTALLY OUT OF GAS in the
> driveway!!).
>
> "Go ahead and take the Corvette, honey."
>
> It's not like it's a terribly difficult car to drive.  Unless you're
> trying to get in trouble it's pretty docile.  She can drive a stick
> with no problem (uh-huh-huh-uhuh-uh) and she drove it to work a few
> times when I needed the SUV.
>
> Not 5 minutes later, the phone rings.  Her cell number is on the
> caller ID.  Uh-oh.
>
> "The car has a flat tire."
>
> "Honey, the car has run-flats.  It can't have a flat tire."
>
> "Something happened and the car slid off the road."
>
> AAAAARRRRRGH!!!
>
> Now there's a dead SUV in the driveway, a truck in the garage with the
> engine removed, and my 2000 C5 in a ditch a couple of miles out with
> my fiancee in it.  And the kid is still at school, sick.  The only
> thing left that ran at that point was a dirt bike so I fired it up and
> took off.  It's 10 below freezing.

Sounds like you need another car ---