Re: No AAA member, what if I get a flat tire?

"Nonymous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Along these lines, why do people just leave their disabled car in
> > > traffic with the blinkers going?  You may not be able to push a Caddie
> > > uphill, but a normal person ought to be able to push an ordinary car
> > > over to the side without doing him/herself an injury.  I've done it
and
> > > still could if I had to.
> >
> > Only a fool would get out of a disabled car in heavy traffic and push
> > the car to the side.
>
> If the disabled car is blocking traffic such that the traffic can barely
> move, then the traffic isn't all that dangerous.
>


And as soon as you push the car enough out of traffic so that traffic can
move again, it becomes extremely dangerous, as impatient assholes start
driving by around you, almost clipping you because they are too impatient to
wait another minute for you to get completely out of their way.  I had a car
die on me and block an extremely busy 2 lane highway (880 S) during evening
rush hour on an overpass (Montague).  The vehicle behind me was a semi that
tried to move over to the left lane, but didn't have enough room, so I
brought 880 to a halt.  I got out and began to push my car up the overpass
to move it over to the other side where there was more of a shoulder.  As
soon as there was barely enough room for people to squeeze by, they did,
many people still coming as close to me as they could so that they could
yell profanities at me and flip me off, as if I wanted to be there.  There
are a lot of idiots on the road.

Another case in point- I stopped once on my way to school to help a woman
whose car brokedown on an uphill offramp (coming off 85 on to Stevens Creek
to De Anza).  She was trying to push her car uphill by herself.  I got out
and started pushing so she could just steer and we could get her out of the
way, and once again, *many* people thought it wise to drive by incredibly
close so that they could flip us off and call us assholes for blocking the
road, as if the woman wanted to be there.

Another case in point, when I worked at Sun Micro six years ago, a married
couple that also worked at the Milpitas campus were either sideswiped by a
car, or had car problems, I forget which.  Either way, they pulled over to
the side of 880, and the husband started to get out of the car to push it,
and was hit and instantly killed by another car.  The wife then ran over to
try to help her husband, and sadly she too was hit and instantly killed by
another car.

I was young and dumb; now I just call the CHP.  Trying to mess with a dead
car in any kind of traffic is dangerous and dumb.