Re: from Gail

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

I think you can get a good cell phone deal from AAA.  You should ask them.
It's cheaper than the use-every-day kind of cell phone.

 > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:48:26 -0800
 > From: Gail <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > To: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > 
 >     Thanks for your e-mail. In case you want to know, Cynthia translated the
 > latest e-mail from Mireille and Alain. They arrive Feb. 4 at LAX at 4:05 PM,
 > so we or Don will pick them up there then. So that's exciting to have them
 > come. Attached is the recently updated RSVP list.
 >     I just experienced a scare. Late this afternoon I was in Oxnard for a
 > job interview with a personnel agency there that covers the Santa
 > Barbara/Goleta area. After eating dinner in that area I drove home in the
 > dark on the 101 and got past Ventura going 70 mph on cruise control when
 > suddenly I hit some large debris in the middle of the road after 2 other
 > cars ahead of me hit it, and I  had an immediate flat tire on the front left
 > side. I had just enough time to pull over onto the right shoulder and put on
 > my hazard flashers and luckily happened to be near a call center for place
 > identification. Not owning a cell phone, I was extremely lucky that I could
 > walk to one of the other 2 vehicles pulled over that had hit that same large
 > debris and borrow one of their cell phones to call AAA emergency services to
 > put on my spare tire. Shortly along came a highway patrol officer who very
 > kindly parked behind me waiting with me until the AAA truck arrived. The
 > officer even stayed shining his light on the work of the AAA service man so
 > he could see to put the spare tire on. This was the first time I ever met a
 > nice helpful police officer. They told me to drive home at only 55 mph. So I
 > got home very slowly but ok. I've decided to ask Don for a cell phone for my
 > upcoming Birthday gift for emergency use like that case.
 > Love,
 > Gail