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...doctor does not diagnose the cause of my medical complaint within 30 seconds as having something to do with pregnancy, I win that round. My consolation prize at the close of the bout, almost always seems to be the gratuitous offer of contraception--sort of like a windshield wash with a fillup...
...course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious, and lay in a coma for a week. Friends knew that he was going to make it only when his aide, Ira Tucker Jr., knelt down next to Wonder's ear, started singing...
Special Stickers. Many of the handicapped are asking that they and the people who drive them be given special windshield stickers that would enable them to go to the head of gas lines, buy fuel on any day and fill their tanks even if the gas station had, say, a $5 limit. So far, most state authorities have paid little attention. Susan Purdy, wife of a polio victim who works as a computer programmer and lives in Roxbury, Conn., recently called the state rehabilitation department to ask about special consideration in buying gasoline. "They said they hadn't thought...
Williams coach Chuck Hewett was driving his team home one night in the school's Econoline van. He was munching on some chocolate chip cookies. The sun was bright and the windshield was streaked with dirt, so he flipped down the sun visor. The window scraper fell out, so he tried to catch it, and knocked the cookies off the dashboard in the process. While trying to grab the cookies, he pushed his hat over his eyes. Crunch. The van stopped abruptly at a tree off the side of the road. No one was hurt but the engine was nailed...
LATE IN SEPTEMBER in north central Florida, sheets of rain flayed the earth unremittingly and after a few days soaked the earth until the earth wouldn't take any more. A billion love bugs spawned from the pools of standing water and made paste on every windshield that ventured out in the country. The water was good for every growing thing, and one of the most fabulous crops was the fabulous blue ring psilocybin mushrooms that some longhairs were collecting in the woods...