Sheltering in place sooner or later leads to projects. Today the product de jure was going through and organizing old documents—hopefully discarding as many as possible. One stack turned out to be copies of letters from my late mother-in-law to her sister. My mother-in-law had a keen sense of humor. One letter included a list of statements that she said were “actually listed on accident forms submitted by policy holders to their insurance company. Here is the list:

· Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.

· The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.

· A truck backed through my windshield into my wife’s face.

· A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.

· The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.

· I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.

· In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.

· I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.

· I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident.

· My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.

· I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows.

There was no indication whether or not the insurance company covered the policy holder’s damages.

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