Our Friend Marty Almost Kills Us and Pat

#9- Our Friend Marty Almost Kills Us and Pat

I remember Dad was driving Cyndy and me to the airport very early around 6AM one weekday morning and our friend Marty- who along with wife Dale bought our Kilby Street home - was kind of poking along in his work van in the left lane on Sea St. As we came up in the right lane where Mitch’s Jenny gas station was, Marty totally and unexpectedly swerved right in front of us, and to avoid a collision Pat in an instant at 30mph steered up on the sidewalk and between a telephone pole and the row of gas pumps, and then back out on the street ,and never touched anything !
Marty just sleepily drove on unaware that he could have caused two of his best friends and their father to have been incinerated in a gas station explosion fireball - if not for Pat’s incredible reflexes and driving skill. We let out a whoop of relief and laughed as we drove on ,but I checked later after our trip and it seemed miraculous as there was no more than a foot of total clearance on either side to make it through without hitting those pumps !