How many days does it take to have an accident after buying a new car? One... two... three...
Three days to have an accident.
So, driving home after visiting Challengers Comics, I take Western to Fullerton and then 90. At Western and Fullerton, as I'm turning right, a girl on a bicycle crashes into me. She ends up in the sprawled out in the road and I pull into the bp station there to see if she's OK. She's good looking, artsy good looking with pink streaks in her hair. She takes the blame but I'm just trying to see if she's OK, if she needs to go to the hospital or anything, maybe even give her a ride home. She's worried about the car but I tell her who cares are you OK? Still, she went off on her own, probably very embarrassed, and I don't blame her. Once I got home I looked over the car closely and I can't even see where she hit it.
Neil Gaiman wrote about the durability of Mini's here but you don't have to go searching -- here's the lot of it...
Dear Neil,I told my husband that a deer crashed into the side of your Mini, but the car was not damaged at all. He was quite astonished that this was possible. I have wanted a Mini for some time and consider this story as yet another block of evidence that Minis are as safe as I believe. My husband however is still skeptical and wants to know if the deer died. I'm sorry if this question is in bad taste, but he really wants to know. Valery
I don't know what happened to the deer. It was night in the dark woods out by my writing cabin, and I looked around, but it had gone, leaving only the wing-mirror twisted up, and, oddly, what can only be described as a "deer print" on the side of the car, to tell me I'd not imagined it. It wasn't until I inspected it the following day, that I realised that it hadn't done any other damage (and the wing mirror simply twisted back into position.)
And this was the message after yours, Valerie. You may want to show it to your husband:
On the durability of Mini Coopers. I'm a volunteer fire-fighter in the Santa Cruz, CA, area. We had a mini drive off the two-lane highway and hit a telephone pole head on. It went through the pole, and into a 3-4' dia redwood tree. The tree stopped the car for good.The car was totalled, but no glass was broken, and the driver had a bruise on his arm. Very impressive for a 45mph or so impact. The car's front end was demolished, but otherwise was intact. The pole's bottom tore out the underside of the fuel tank, which caused a fire, but I forgive a car that. It's rare to go through something like a telephone pole in the first place. They tend to do pretty nasty things to cars... Enjoy the Mini, drive safely, and hope it serves you well,
Aaron
Sounds good to me. In other news, on Sunday I bought a copy of the New Frontier animated dvd and Donnie Yen's Flashpoint. Both were excellent.
Donnie Yen's Flashpoint should not be confused with other Flashpoints. Each has it's own merits.