Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

The first time I brought my car up to college, I lost control on some black ice and flipped it.  Luckily I was not hurt at all, but it is a bad way to learn what black ice is.  What extra-sucked was that i was only about 30 min from school on a 12 hour ride, that and the a-hole small town cops gave me a ticket. 

 Also had a lucky escape when a lady came around a corner in my lane and two bad things almost happened- her jacked-up suv almost went through my windshield but managed to glance off the frame, and the impact came within a few inches of pushing me down a 30' embankment.

 I've driven past several highway traffic fatalities- watching emergency workers cut open horribly mangled vehciles, or seeing a downed motorcycle and then 50' farther up the road seeing a body wedged under a car.  enough to ruin your day.

 Probably the most vivid memory i had though was at a metro station in Alexandria, VA, looking down at the parking lot.  Some guy started up his car and somehow his accelerator got stuck.  He raced around the parking lot trying to dodge cars, and eventually plowed directly into the passenger side of another car.  A woman was in the second car waiting to pick up her husband, and he emerged from the station about a minute after the accident.  She collapsed in his arms in tears when he got over to the cars.  Watching all this from above, it was really surreal- I've invented stories for all of them in my head.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I have seen some accidents, but I am not sure how serious they were.  There was the accident I was in where my car was destroyed.  I witnessed three robberies and three murders but it had nothing to do with cars.  One robbery was when I was in a gas station and I had a bad vibe. The cashier seemed really nervous.  I calmly made my purchase and walked out. I then called the cops.  I felt weird because I was only going on a vibe.  The cops said I was correct and that someone else had just called them about the same gas station and they were on their way.  The other robberies were at the same gas station.  It gets hit all of the time.  I would hate to work there.

The first murder I saw was when I was driving down the road one night and I saw a car at an ATM.  It was a really rough neighborhood. The guy was slouched to the side.  I did not think much about it, because I was driving down the road, but the image stayed with me.  The next day I turned on the news and it was the same car and guy.  He had been shot at the ATM!  That was when I learned that he was murdered.

The next murder I was was when I was doing ministry work in New York City.  I was walking down the streets and some people were yelling in the streets.  A cop was trying to calm them down.  A window opened and a guy shot the cop right in the face.  That one kind of shook me up because the cop was right next to me.  

The last one I was not sure if it was a murder or not because it happened on the same streets on the same night.  It was a knife fight.   That was a wild night and the first time I visited New York.

"...that was a wild night...."

 would hate to see your version of a really wild night, Kevin!

wow wild stories thank ya for sharing, I had a dream about my twin sis in a wreck, her very 1st date, I dreamt she was in a bad wreck,then come to find out it was TRUE. one of the small town cop came up

was at my friends house where I spent the night. he told me my twin sis was in a very bad accident. broken femur bone, laying on the side of the railroadtracks, lost her hubby high school ring. she was inthe hospital for a few weeks, a rod in her leg for aqbout 3years,tooken out, she still has it, wants me to make a lamp out of it, HEH!!! with her x-ray for shade.