I like my son's excuse:  As I was approaching the left turn, the light went
yellow, and the car across from me almost turned right in front of me, so I
had to floor the accelerator so I could turn left in front of them.  That
is why the car spun out and ended up in a ditch, they caused it.   :)

Roland

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> How many times a year do we read or hear something like this:
>
> "Icy conditions caused a 17-car pileup along interstate XX"
>
> compared to something like this:
>
> "bad driving and poor judgement caused a 17-car pileup along interstate
> XX."
>
> Now, if a tree falls on a driver or something like that, I can see blaming
> that on the weather.
>
> But a pileup?
>
> Jim
>