“Big deal, I survive this sort of stuff everyday!”
Associated Press – August 7, 2007:
EL PASO, Texas – A pickup truck hit a boulder and tumbled over a 150-foot cliff, but the 71-year-old driver survived, officials said.
“It was a miracle that someone saw her vehicle,” Sheriff’s spokesman Rick Glancey said. “It is one of these days when God was on her side.”
Helene Crosser told authorities that she was driving on Loop 375 to watch the sunrise early Sunday when her shoe fell off and got jammed beneath the brake pedal.
Crosser said she tried to pull off the road, but couldn’t slow down because the shoe stopped the brake from fully working.
She was trapped in the Texas heat for seven hours until a driver spotted glint of light reflecting from afar and called 911. Authorities said Crosser didn’t have a cell phone with her.
And people complain when I drive barefoot… although it’s usually because of the fumes.
Uh…so why didn’t god keep her from falling off the cliff in the first place?
I had that happen with a beer bottle once, (no I wasnt drinking it), now I keep a cleaner vehicle.
“Crosser didn’t have a cell phone with her”
A 71 year old woman without a cellphone! MY GOD WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO!!!!!!!!!
#2 – She’s pretty funny that way, isn’t she?
Are we sure she wasn’t using medical marijuana?
God saved her by making sure she was driving a real truck. In a crappy little car she wouldn’t survive hitting a boulder then going over a cliff. Thank god for trucks.
Whatever you do, lady – do even think about turning the goddamn ignition off!
Maybe let God do it.
It is one of these days when God was on her side.
And the ~40,000 others who die in traffic accidents every year were just unfortunate suckers who God didn’t give a shit about? I can just see Pastor Phelps holding a sign with “It’s a miracle that they died!!”
“I know it’s hard to understand, Sue, but it was God’s will that Jim got sliced in half by the back end of that semi. I’m sure He knows what’s best”…
#10 – Lauren
LOL
#1, 4, 9, 10, & 11
Will you guys quit !!! I’m trying to drink some coffee here.
Damn, this is funny, God’s will, …, sliced in half …, …complain because of the smell,
OK, I got it.
She drove her truck over the cliff to check out the AIR BRAKES.
#13 – Mr. Fusion
Perhaps her booster rocket was too strong?
I just wanna know HTF she got her shoe off and under the break pedal…
Did I just speeel ‘brake’ ‘break’???
Nah. Carry on.
#15 – Lauren the Ghoti
Itchy feet can make people do strange things…
I suspect that next time she goes to ‘watch the sunrise,’ she’ll park the goddamn truck first and get out to scratch her feet…
“Big deal, I survive this sort of stuff everyday!”
AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!
MSN’s tagline used to be: “MSN: easier to use everyday.”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
And you’re both wrong. How the hell do people who write for a living get this wrong? Just remember, “everyday” is an adjective, not a noun. Like an “everyday” activity. See, “everyday” is describing the noun activity. If it’s not an adjective, it’s two words: every day.
Therefore,
“I survive falls like this every day.”
(Space exaggerated for emphasis).
Thanks!
#19, Mikey
You strike me as one of those people that the word moran was intended for.
The editor, SN, is not a professional writer. You are correct that he misused the word everyday. In the general scheme of things though, no one gives a flying crappola. Why? Because I and most of the others at DU care more about the substance.
Not only do I respect SN for his intelligence and insight, he also posts some pretty good images with his topics.
BTW, welcome to DU.
Mikey – thanks for joining the fans of accurate language usage, but I’m sure you’ve already noticed the “whatever” generation is beyond rescue. “I understand it, so it’s OK.” is the thought; “Although I, personally, can deduce the writer’s meaning, maybe others might not, since it’s not what they learned as correct usage, English possibly not being their first language, &c.” is never even considered. “I understand it – who gives a rat’s ass if others don’t; my understanding is all that counts.”
Used to be that the purpose behind correct usage was to maximize the number that understand the message. No more. Other people don’t matter, only me.
Like whatshisface said, “My expressing myself is more important than your understanding what I’m expressing.” Great logic.
#21, Ok ok. It isn’t the knifing I mind the most. It’s the twisting the knife once you insert it.
As I pointed out in #20 though, most people are more interested in the substance. Ad hominem attacks on the messenger miss the point. This is especially so when someone’s shorts are in as much of a knot as I see in #19.
Mr. Fusion, I myself being a ‘moran’, at least knows how to spell moron.
#22 – Even I agree with you on this one.
#23 – Too bad you don’t understand humor.
19. “And you’re both wrong. “
There are two types of people in the world: Those who think language is fixed, static, and unchanging. And those with brains who realize that language is whatever people use to communicate.
In old English the plural word for cow was “kine.” Is that the word you use for cows? Are you wrong for not using it? Nope, you’re simply guilty of keeping up with the times just like everyone else.
…one might add to those two types of people a third type; those who possess sufficient experience and wisdom to know that the well-documented pandemic degradation of language skills among English-speakers is an entirely separate issue from linguistic evolution, and that calling a widespread decline in literacy “keeping up with the times” is nothing more than using euphemism as a substitute for reasoning.
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