Damn, I just read that the actor who played Wilson died of lung cancer in 2003 ... I thought he's still around... hmmm.. human life is quite short isn't it?
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In July of 1995, driving a Toyota Corolla at 85 mph, there was cow on the road, exactly in the middle, straddling the white dotted line. I had a 17-yr-old kid with me. I looked at the cow, and did not slow down. I went around her on the rear end side. No problem.
The kid peed his pants, and told his dad. Never got to go out to the ranch again.
In November of 1995, I had a pickup, and my Chow Chow dog riding shotgun. A windy day, I had been driving into a headwind fighting to keep my speed up, then turned so the wind was pushing me. I think I was doing 90 or more, and reached for something, looking down. I pulled the wheel just enough my right tires went off the pavement, and I took out a reflector along the road, then sorta hurried to get back on the road. Too fast. Transition jerked me and I went straight across the road. I went into the soft ground and sage and almost kept it straight and upright, but not quite. A sage tripped me over end over end. My dog smashed my hand on the steering wheel and then went out the back window, landing about one foot from the place where the truck landed next. I found the round indentation of where he hit, but he had taken off, and I never found him. Some kids from a little desert commune found him and hid him because they were not allowed to have pets, and when the adults discovered the contraband dog, they just shot him.
At any rate, I was wearing a seat belt, and I had for some uncanny impulse removed some heavy tools like wrenches and sledge hammers from the cab of the truck before I started out. A dope peddler found me upside-down, strapped in, in the overturned pickup. My hand was smashed, lacerated. Apparently, the dog had snagged on the rear-view mirror and taken part of it with him and impaled it in my hand. The dope peddler used a cell phone to call the highway patrol, and stayed with me for an hour. I was that far from help. He found a clean shirt in his travel bag and dressed my wounds and stopped the bleeding, and found my radar detector and thoughtfully confiscated it, saying it wouldn't help my case. Then when he saw the ambulance and the cops coming he hopped back in his SUV and drove on to I'm sure San Francisco.
The think that what sticks most in my recollection of this is how when he approached the truck, his voice sounded doubtful he'd find me alive. "Anybody there?"
I have made a roadside shrine of the spot, as I go by it frequently. I began a new life from that time. I remember explaining to the local sheriff who also went out to look at what happened, how the cause was inattention. All my accidents have been "inattention". Well, I have fallen asleep while driving, too. But when I have done that, somehow, I've slowed down to a stop. Still, waking up in the road, stopped, is pretty scary, too. At any rate, since I've been married, I've gotten my driving thrills from my wife. If I get drowsy I pull off the road, well off the road, and just sleep. I look for deer, and don't overdrive my headlights. In daylight, I make it a point to be defensive. Other cars I count as unpredictable and I try to keep a good space around me, if I have to slow down for a while and just stay behind that truck.
I preach to myself all the time when I drive, about how I want to die like my grandpa did. In a peaceful sleep at home in bed, at 103 years old or older, after a nice day of sitting on the front porch.
He looked pretty old in those nineties bits. I guess smokers always look older somehow. Even if they live to 100 like George Burns.
And he was pretty old, actually.
uhhhmmm, no. He looked old. I thought like mid seventies, but he died at 61, and those episodes of Home Improvement had a fifty-something Wilson,actually.
Haha.. I've gotta stop making these connections but can't resist making 1 last one.
Maris Crane from Frasier. Babe, you know how sometimes you talk about your wife but we never actually get to see/talk to her in person? I remembered you talking about her making you running around doing stuff for the ranch, waking up odd hours, pulling out trees... etc, etc, etc.
That's kinda like Nile Crane's wife in my favourite show "Fraiser". You never actually see her face on the show, all we know about her is when Niles talks about her. He would describe her using various metaphors, etc. She is apparently very rich (not sure that's the reason Niles married her or not though, but I suspect it is one of the reason since Niles is a very smart, albeit a gullible guy). From what I gather, she can be quite controlling both of Niles and EVERYONE around her, and Niles often joke about that but I think he actually enjoys 'pleasing her' by 'attending to her every demands'.
Niles as you know is a psychiatrist, very cultured, very well educated, so it begs the question why he married Maris as from all accounts she is very hard to live with ..haha.. but I guess it's kinda come off as cute on the show anyway that he's very loyal to her and running around doing everything and anything for her.
If you have watched Fraiser you would know exactly what I'm talking about, if not Maris would actually be harder than Wilson to peg down, since we never saw her face on the show, LOL.
Maris Crane from Frasier. Babe, you know how sometimes you talk about your wife but we never actually get to see/talk to her in person? I remembered you talking about her making you running around doing stuff for the ranch, waking up odd hours, pulling out trees... etc, etc, etc.
That's kinda like Nile Crane's wife in my favourite show "Fraiser". You never actually see her face on the show, all we know about her is when Niles talks about her. He would describe her using various metaphors, etc. She is apparently very rich (not sure that's the reason Niles married her or not though, but I suspect it is one of the reason since Niles is a very smart, albeit a gullible guy). From what I gather, she can be quite controlling both of Niles and EVERYONE around her, and Niles often joke about that but I think he actually enjoys 'pleasing her' by 'attending to her every demands'.
Niles as you know is a psychiatrist, very cultured, very well educated, so it begs the question why he married Maris as from all accounts she is very hard to live with ..haha.. but I guess it's kinda come off as cute on the show anyway that he's very loyal to her and running around doing everything and anything for her.
If you have watched Fraiser you would know exactly what I'm talking about, if not Maris would actually be harder than Wilson to peg down, since we never saw her face on the show, LOL.
This is the post that reminded me of how Niles used to talk about Maris on the show.. hehe..
I have watched Frasier maybe ten or twenty times, but I did not catch on to the Maris thing. Mostly I took it as a caution on trying to project more smartness than you've got brains to pay for.