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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Jenny1234 some time before 1960, I wasn't even one year old, mom took a ride from a friend in their truck.
The highway speed limit was around 55 miles per hour. Mom was on the passenger side of the truck with the window rolled down. It being hot in the desert and air-conditioning didn't exist. I was on her lap.
Both mom and her friend saw another truck coming from the opposite direction in their lane. So her friend stomped on the brakes. That slowed the truck down yet not enough. So mom threw me out the window. I landed in a sand dune with the blankets still wrapped around me and not even a bruise.
Mom nearly died that day. Had surgery over her left eye. Her friend did die. I certainly would have died if she wouldn't have thrown me into those sand dunes.
The highway speed limit was around 55 miles per hour. Mom was on the passenger side of the truck with the window rolled down. It being hot in the desert and air-conditioning didn't exist. I was on her lap.
Both mom and her friend saw another truck coming from the opposite direction in their lane. So her friend stomped on the brakes. That slowed the truck down yet not enough. So mom threw me out the window. I landed in a sand dune with the blankets still wrapped around me and not even a bruise.
Mom nearly died that day. Had surgery over her left eye. Her friend did die. I certainly would have died if she wouldn't have thrown me into those sand dunes.
