Either by cash up front or perhaps a marraige license later;
Linda Lovelace at least got $500; i didn't even wake up to a quarter on my nightstand, so i couldn't even call a cab;
Claim Number 9234N511639 05012003 41, that's what Nationwide calls it;
That would seem to indicate this one of at least 41 other auto accidents on May 1st of 2003;
That was a windy rainy spring day i was test driving my hard work at restoring my first Corvette, a navy blue tan leathered beauty with all the features that should've come from the factory—large straight exhaust, completely rebuilt engine, new larger carb, completely rebuilt transmission and clutch, etc;
Anyone who drives a high performance car knows it's beyond idiocy to do anything sudden with it in the rain, so here i am, on one of the last turns home, rolling up a hill just under the speed limit ready to take the second from last turn home;
Dark and rainy as the eve was, a glimmer of motion out of the corner of my eye prompted me to crank the wheel back over to the right in just enough time to have saved my life from some wildwoman so hellbent on passing me on the left side through an intersection i was turning left into that she even told the cops she went across some lawns on that side of the street in order to beat me before i turned left;
And there are still rubber marks on the pavement at the intersection where she sped up, as she heatedly told the cops she had to do because i was going SO SLOW—yes, she did;
Well, she knocked my Vette to pieces completely out of the intersection and up the road perhaps fifty yards away as i watched her go spinning in circles past me over a couple more lawns—thank God it was too dark and wet for kids at play;
It was an open and shut case by her own admission at the scene and later in traffic court (you tell me how they let this woman back out on the road) but that meant absolutely nothing to her insurance company, Nationwide;
I'm sure God made Nationwide as something to do between making larva and whale dung—it has been almost two and a half years and they have not even made an attempt to settle equitably;
I'd spent a weekend driving out of state to pick up my Vette and drive it home to finish restoring it, but all Nationwide could see was it had an out of state title that was once a salvage title, so they took it as license to pay no more than the cost of the few of its pieces they bothered to note on their appraisal or to repair it at an even more ridiculously low cost;
This madwoman amateur assassin near t-boned me, crushed the back left rear then scraped the side and mashed in the front as well, and all this in a zone where the speed limit was 25mph;
No, i haven't seen this woman before and don't believe i've caused harm or insult to a member of her family in this life;
For six months i had to hobble back and forth to work on a partially torn achilles tendon and a badly bruised knee because Nationwide deemed fit to only give me a rental for the week it took them to offer up their comical appraisal—and i had to pay for the insurance on the rental—and you can be sure it wasn't a Corvette!
Of course i got a lawyer so the Nationwide maggots couldn't sneak out the back door with their legal beagles on statute of limitations; when my lawyer needs a laugh he goes to Chevrolet dealers and asks them if they would sell him a 1979 Corvette restored as mine for the price Nationwide is willing to pay;
After two and half years my former jewel will need another total restoration, and of course nothing at all has been offered for loss of consortion and other pain and suffering;
Of course we went after my assassin with a civil suit—which she promptly turned over to her insurance company, Nationwide;
I had to go out and buy another car after i saved up enough to—which was why i had to hobble on my injuries in the first place;
I used to participate in Master's track and field, but the loss of flexibility in my knee and ankle all but precludes that level of activity and the chances to see different parts of the world hosting those meets as well;
Meanwhile, the medical bills just keep rolling in because they want to be paid, who cares if it's me or Nationwide who does it;
And as faar as all the time off from work and all my built-up leave lost, well, Nationwide haven't paid one flat dime of that, either;
But then, look at it from their side—they aren't hurt, they aren't permanently crippled, they didn't have to limp til they could save enough to buy another car, in fact, they were not inconvenienced in any way at all, were they?
I wrote the Ohio Insurance Board, only to have them write back Nationwide in their opinion has not done anything wrong;
My lawyer tells me several sensational trials (read murder trials) here in Ohio have bumped my case back because there is only one courtroom for both, but now that there is a chance i'll be getting another court date soon, i can only hope it is before a jury and not a bench trial Nationwide is sure to ask for;
If i sound calm it is because i am past anger, in the eye of the storm, so to speak;
If there were a way to completely destroy Nationwide and not harm innocent people there would be no regret or hesitation, because to my mind, they have made it their life's work to destroy me as if i were the criminal they insured who tried to kill me with her vehicle and only by the Grace of Our Father didn't succeed—but that is my red grandfathers talking in me;
One thing Nationwide has taught me i never learned in history class, and that is the utter worthlessness of promises on pieces of paper from suits full of plastic smiles;
I am beginning to understand very clearly how my red grandfathers felt as they watched their land and way of life disappear right in front of their eyes, holding a piece of paper full of worthless promises;
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