I know the feeling.
Took a nasty motorbike accident last year, leg crushed between motorcycle and car. I came too with the bike resting on my leg with the certain knowledge that it was bad, but no idea how bad. When the nice chap from UPS dragged the bike off me, I looked down to just see a sort of twisted lump with a boot on the end. My whole life I've worked on my feet, pubs, restaurants, clubs. I was terrified. I cried and cried and cried. I thank my stars every day that I'd bought decent boots, and decent trousers that saved my leg.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Apr 2012, 19:50, 1 reply)

That wouldn't have happened in the Beetle
You moto-spastic, WP
( Major Turd for tonight only, Wed 11 Apr 2012, 20:19, closed)

i dunno,
Beetles are crafted from tinfoil. I don't think its possible to survive a crash in a beetle.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Apr 2012, 20:21, closed)

Plus they are specifically geometrically designed
to take your face out with the windscreen in any crash over 6 mph.

And they are awful, awful cars, but that's OK, because they have "character"

Charles Manson has "character", too.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 9:31, closed)