| Re: June Tree |
Subject: Re: June Tree by TommyT-Bone on 2018/6/3 13:38:01 Interesting how past experiences creep into your consciousness. I was thinking back to when I was a boy how I was mesmerized by all the different wrecks in the local junkyards. If there was a car wreck nearby I would walk to it to view the carnage. Then and now I try to analyze what someone had to do to cause the damage. Back then the worst I saw in the junk yard was what was left of a 67 T-Bird that had slammed into a tree at a high rate of speed with 7 teenage souls on board. Blood spatter and hair were still present in the passenger compartment. Went a few blocks over from my house on a rainy morning to see the wreck of a local teen aged boy that had lost control on wet roads and slammed into a tree. He was one of the cool car guys. It rained all that day and I thought that the angels must be crying. I even went to inspect my dads wrecked 63 T-Bird convertible at a different local junkyard. Another tree incident. He didn't die in the wreck. He ate the steering wheel knocking out his teeth and crushed his rib cage. He spent a month or so in the hospital recovering. That was caused by drinking and driving. Wasn't enough to stop his drinking. Booze killed him a short time later. In a non fatality wreck, my friend Pat spun out in his 67 GTO. He decided to put on a set of side pipes instead of putting on a new set of tires. His backs were pretty bad from doing a number of burnouts. A telephone pole ended up in the middle of his trunk. They had to cut the pole and lift the car off it, then you guessed it, brought it to the junkyard. I still remember the perfect circle surrounded by all the twisted metal. A work of art really. Pat was knocked senseless from the impact and for several days lost his short term memory. His repeat questions were "Where am I? What happened? Where's the car? ...... Where am I? What happened? Where's the car?" What day is it again? Oh ya, June Tree ............. |
