Thursday Thirteen #87

If you have ever been in the unhappy situation of having to make an insurance claim following a car accident, you’ll know that on the claim form you have to say what happened.  I found the following in a book called Anguished English  by Richard Lederer.  They are excerpts from actual accident reports from people making claims on their motor insurance.  Here are thirteen examples.

1.    Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.

2.    I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows.

3.    I saw a slow moving, sad faced old gentleman, as he bounced off the hood of my car.

4.    A truck backed through my windshield and into my wife’s face.

5.    I had been driving for about 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.

6.    The guy was all over the road.  I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.

7.    My car was legally parked as I backed into the other vehicle.

8.    The accident happened when the right front door of a car came around the corner without giving a signal.

9.    The other man changed his mind and I had to run into him.

10.    The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.

11.    The pedestrian ran for the pavement but I got him.

12.    In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.

13.    A cow wandered into my car.  I was later informed that the unfortunate cow was half-witted.

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Comments

[Harriet]

Wow...what a list!
Too funny.

http://iamharriet.blogspot.com/2009/07/thursday-thunks-and-13-stupid-new.html

[colleen]

I'm trying to visualize a cow wandering into someone's car.

[Heather]

Which just goes to prove the Einstein quote about stupidity being infinite.

Gotta love Lederer's books!

[Adelle Laudan]

Wow! How incredible. Wwelcome back, you were missed. Happy T13!

[Hill]

BWAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAH!

:)

[Shelley Munro]

LOL - I've just suffered through an insurance claim. It's almost a pity I didn't have an excuse like one of these. It might have made the process more enjoyable!

[becky68]

Lol, I like #12 best, especially since I had an odd run in with a bee just last weekend while driving- no wrecks occurred in my case however.

[AD]

agree with becky :D

[Thorne]

Good for giggles! Ta!

[kimmi]

great and I can appreciate ecah and every one. LOL!