[Elfsea] aftermath of Tor Yule Revel

[Sue Delk]

My goodness, Caelin!   Don't you know that Miatas are fast, but not supposed
to fly?  ;)  I'm happy you are safe and home.
    As to your cell phone, I stayed after to clean up site and did not see a
cell phone.  You might check with the autocrat, Lord Einarr, at
the5 at yahoo.com to see if someone turned one in to him.  At cleanup, I did
not see one there.  I hope you find it soon.
    Good luck!!

In service,
Lady Genevieve del Gamba


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Threlkeld" <rjt at softwareinnovation.com>
To: "Elfsea" <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: [Elfsea] aftermath of Tor Yule Revel


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> Hey guys and gals! Caelin here. We had lots of fun talking with our
> friends at the Tor Yule revel yesterday. Unfortunately, the aftermath
> was a bit less fun. On 67 prior to 174, a car coming the other way
> shifted into my lane and came right at our Miata. I chose (can you
> really choose in a tenth of a second?) to go to my left since he was
> heading to my right and I was not sure I could miss him that way. Pyro
> tells me it was a white van, but I only remember the headlights.
>
> We spun around, slid into the mud-filled ditch, flipped onto the
> passenger side and back several times (I was sure we flipped onto the
> top and then back down, but the top looks pristine and this is a
> convertible). We ended up in the ditch on the opposite side of the road
> wheel deep in mud and grass. Some people saw it and stopped to check on
> us. Amazingly, we were OK. Both of us had seat belts and chest straps in
> place and the total damage to us was a small bruise for Pyro. I
> apologized to her, but she thanked me for keeping us alive :-).
>
> The car was damaged on the passenger side, but still running. The police
> arrived in force and puzzled for some time about how we could get where
> we were. They gave me a field sobriety test and, of course, I passed
> with flying colors. They said this kind of thing was almost always
> alcohol related (I believe the other guy who kept on driving was drunk).
> I suspect being dressed in 1540 Italian garb did not help much.
>
> They called a wrecker who pulled us out. I wanted to try to drive home,
> so we tried it for a while. There was a shimmy that was like a bent
> wheel, but the wrecker guy insisted it was mud, so we drove slowly to
> the nearest car wash and washed out the undercarriage. It turned out we
> had a slow leak puncture in the passenger front tire, but we filled it
> and made it home about 1AM.
>
> To make things more difficult, I can not find my cell phone, so it is
> probably at the Yule site somewhere unless one of you great people
> gathered it up. Could you please check and if there is someone near the
> site, could they look around (I won't be driving much for a while). I
> would greatly appreciate it. I have insurance on the phone and can get
> it replaced, but the mass of phone numbers in it is not properly backed
> up anywhere.
>
> I'd like to thank Timothy, Anezka, Seamus, and Genivive for worrying
> about us and attempting to track us down.
>
> In service,
> Caelin on Andrede
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