To: Ms. X who wrote (16447 ) 3/28/1999 8:21:00 AM From: Margaret Mateer Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 34811
Morning Jan! I hope you are peacefully snoozing away in some merry dreamland this sleepy Sunday morning. I'm going to have to have another serious chat with our Maker regarding that idiot nerve. Doesn't sound like we have you back yet exactly the way we had in mind. I sent you the following via email but I'm not sure you've read it yet (many SIers have probably seen this as it was first posted on the Market Gems thread..) Wouldn't want TLC or Lost1 to miss something like THIS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers, and facemask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast-some 20 miles away from the forest. The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. sooooooooooooooooooo... looks like another beeoootiful day in south Florida - wish you could go to the beach! soon, soon. Feel better, Jannie. Peggy