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The day I broke my wrist.... True Story

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When I was a kid, my summers would be spent in Mexico with my mother's family. I would stay at my grandparents home and we'd spend endless days spending with my aunts and cousins. My mother is the youngest out of six sibling s, you see, and the eldest is my Aunt Sylvia who pretty much lived to her title as the big sister, the ring leader, the head honcho, whatever you want to call it, she was it.  Now my Aunt Gaby, the fourth sibling, always invited the whole family over to her house. It wasn't mandatory for my Aunt to do this big meal for the whole 30 of us (very close aunts, uncles, grandparents, nieces and nephews) since, every weekend my aunts, Sylvia, Lupe, Gaby, and Yasmin, (sometimes my grandma too) would alternate, so the cooking wouldn't fall onto a specific relative, but it was my Aunt Gaby’s house that I remembered the most fondly. My uncle, a tall and kind man of a few words, was a truck driver, and he had more tha...

Woman gets a pole up her butt FOR TEXTING AND DRIVING

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Okay.   First of of all, the heading is CORRECT . On Wednesday September 10th of 2014 an idiot a mom of a middle school student was heading to her daughter's school to drop off a saxophone and as she neared the school, got distracted because she was running late for some meeting at her work.  WHILE driving, (around 25 miles per hour) she texted her work and BAMN .  Her truck slammed into a school pole (like the ones for handicap rails). The pole went through her truck, sliced into the back of her seat, and impaled her up her butt.  Umm.  Whut? Talk about freak accident. The woman is a live an well, just a bit sore all over her butt, not to mention she received over 40 stitches outside AND inside of her body. "I'm truly a miracle. They said if it gone just a little bit the other way I would have bled out," The woman said. This is exactly why  I don't text and drive.  Cause it can be a such a  pain...