Ouch Paul ! Sorry to hear about your incident.
Glad you came out OK except for the dent to your wallet!
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "paul stenquist" <[email protected]>
Subject: Detroit PDML, It Began Nicely
Bill Sawyer, Ken Waller, and I had a good time at the Detroit Institute of
Art. The Robert Frank exhibit consisted of his shots of Detroit, many of
which are not in his book, "The Americans." Some of the images are superb,
with plenty of storytelling and nice rendering. A few are borderline in
regard to the rendering and exposures. Not everything that's out of focus
and poorly exposed is art:-). But overall, the work is interesting and
revealing.
That was good. Then we went to lunch at Traffic Jam and Snug, which is one
of the few places near the museum that's open on Sunday. Good as always.
We all refrained from sampling their excellent home brews since it was
just barely noon.
Left for home at about 1PM. Could have taken Woodward all the way as I
usually due, but we had some serious flooding, and I was afraid some of
the underpasses might be closed. So I took the Interstate. I was motoring
along in the left lane at about 80, which is normal for Detroit, when the
guy in front of me swerved hard to the left. Right there about two car
lengths ahead was what appeared to be a tire in the land. Since I was
driving my Jeep, I figured that if I did a slalom move to avoid it, I'd
end up on my head with the greasy side showing. So I moved over as far as
I could without doing a violent move, and I hit the tire. Turned out it
was a tire and wheel. Blew out both right side tires, but managed to get
things under control and pulled off to the shoulder on the left side of
the lane. No way I could make it to the right shoulder through heavy
traffic. Sat for two hours before I could get a flatbed out there. Paid
him $175 to haul the Jeep 25 miles to my place and drop it in the
driveway. Figure I'll still come out ahead by beating the wheels off
myself and buying two tires at a discount tire store. If he had taken it
to a Detroit shop, they would have raped me, and each employee would
probably have taken a turn.
Anyway, I'm home now, enjoying an adult beverage.
Good PDML Detroit. Bad trip home.
Paul
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