Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn From: donn@sdchema.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Little tiny pebbles..... Message-ID: <621@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 04:38:02 EDT Article-I.D.: sdchema.621 Posted: Fri Jul 8 04:38:02 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 13:49:11 EDT References: <173@ih1ap.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Chemistry Dept. Administration Lines: 14 Little tiny pebbles bouncing off the rear ends of gravel trucks are not just hard on the paint. Three weeks ago my younger brother drove from Mountain View CA to NIH in Bethesda MD in his Beetle and chanced to come up behind a gravel truck somewhere in NV (California, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, and Nevada, for those who hate acronyms). A rock bounced off the truck and trashed his windshield. Thanks to the miracle of safety glass, his windshield merely became semi-opaque with zillions of tiny fractures instead of falling on his lap (and eyes and throat and other interesting areas). Being reckless, feckless and of few financial resources, he chose to drive the rest of the way to Bethesda with a semi-opaque windshield, and I'm surprised he survived much less escaped getting a ticket. Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn