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That's tempting fate? Nah. This is tempting fate. I first drove a car in 1961, and have never been involved in any kind of moving accident. Cars have been dinged twice while sitting in parking lots, so that does not count. I won't count the close calls either. There have been a few, or maybe several........

Since we are talking about old times, when I was 17 my father sent me up the hill with his car to buy some ice cream. When I got to the boulevard there was a California Highway Patrol motorcycle jock, parked against the curb, chatting with three teenaged girls, dressed for the swimming pool. I noted him and went on for the ice cream. Coming back, there he was again. I turned and proceeded on. Quickly he was on my tail with lights on. Stopped, he said I had made an illedgal left turn, not from the turn lane but from a traffic lane. I knew I hadn't, argued with him--he was smoking and blew smoke in my face to try and get me but nothing would work. I told him I had seen him talking to the girls, that he was there when I had passed him twice, and there was no way he was paying attention to anything else, so write the ticket before the ice cream melts and I would see him in court and let the judge decide. I left without a ticket.