Originally Posted by
Jerry Peck
. . . Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago (RV) motor home. On her first trip home, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. . . .
True story:
While attending Georgia Tech I knew a student from Iran. This was just before the Iranian Hostage Crisis. He related to me the story about a fellow Iranian student who purchased a new, fully-loaded conversion van. This was circa 1978-79 in the Time Before SUVs. All the Iranian students I knew at GT came from very wealthy families. Unfortunately most of them were very poor students.
This fellow took his new van out for a drive on one of Atlanta's freeways. While driving down the road at about 65 mph (the speed limit was 55 mph back then) he got thirsty so he set his cruise control, got up and went in the back to get a drink out of the refrigerator. Naturally, the van rolled several times in the median and was totalled. (I know - this doesn't say much for GT's admission standards.)
Along came the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the embargo against Iran. Most (if not all) of the Iranian students at Ga. Tech were sent back to Iran. I was watching the news coverage on TV when they reported on Iranians boarding a plane at Hartsfield to head back to Iran. Heading up the stairs to the plane was the guy I knew from GT. That was the last I ever saw of him.