Classified Ads are not the only place one has to be careful about one's writing.
The following quotes are ACTUAL statements found on Insurance Forms, where car drivers attempted to summarize the details of an accident in the fewest possible words:
- Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have.
- The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.
- I thought my window was down, but I found it was up when I put my hand through it.
- I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way.
- The guy was all over the road, I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.
- I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed for the embankment.
- My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.
- The pedestrian had no idea which direction to run, so I ran over him.
- I saw a slow-moving sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car.
- I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.
- I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows.
- I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble, when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident.
- I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.
- In my attempt to hit a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.
- The telephone poll was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way, when it struck my front end.
- The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.
Love,
MB
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