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| Well, when it broke down it was barely hanging out in traffic so I got out and pushed it to get it on the shoulder. Then it got away from me and started rolling down the hill through grass and then crashed through a fence when it got to the bottom of the small hill and took out some ornamental shrubs. | |
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| You're lucky it didn't do any more damage. | |
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| I'm not finished. It picked up speed as it rolled through a courtyard behind a house. It then crashed through a neighbor's fence and sailed right into a pool. I dove in to get my attache case before the water ruined all my papers. After I got bak to the surface a small foreign man who spoke little English ran out of his house and started to quarrel with me about tresspassing and swimming in his pool. | |
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| You're kidding! | |
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| No,and to make thinks worse, I'm hoarse from being soaking wet. If I get sick I'm going to have to quarantine myself in my office so I don't infect anyone else with a cold. | |
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| Well, I have to go. I hae to get up even earlier than usual tomorrow. I'll leave you to mourn the loss of your car. | |
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