“On a few Sunday mornings, my mom would have my sisters and myself dressed in our Sunday best for Daddy to drive us around to nearby apartment complexes to sell donuts in order to help raise money for whatever car part Daddy needed for the race car. I knew I would win that challenge because I waited until he fell asleep! Miss and love you.” He would say, ‘Who can keep their legs up three inches from the floor and hold them the longest? Who could do the most one-legged squats? Who could do the most squat jumps, or who could jump rope the longest? Who could do the most sit ups”? One day he said, ‘Who can pull his fingers back?” Whoever won his challenges would get $50. Daddy also won that bet.ĭaddy always kept us four girls competitive. As he was leaving another guy asked to arm wrestle for $50. A few of the guys wanted to go against Daddy as well. Daddy says, ’What’s the bet?’ He always needed extra money for his motorcycles or dragsters. One of the guys said he could out-bench press Daddy. He was lifting weights with the football players one day. He told me a story about when he went to school at Auburn. Or he had found me.” Cindy Lindell, daughter But, unbeknownst to me at that time, I had found one. I was definitely not looking for a man to add to my life. “I had been happily divorced for over 20 years. When Bill called a couple weeks later and asked me out to dinner, I was happy to say Yes.
On top of that, he had vacuumed the car, so that it looked better than when I brought it in. You couldn't tell there has been any damage. That was when I really started to like him. He seemed so laid back, so generous, so comfortable in his skin. When I told him what I had done, he waved his hand, shrugged, and said, 'No matter', and went back to his phone conversation.
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He was standing there, all tan and fit, talking on his cell phone, looking like a movie star. “Sheepishly, I walked back to Bill's office to confess the stupid thing that I had done. I was so embarrassed, and there was some damage to the rear of the car. I got into that car and promptly backed it smack into one of those concrete posts at the garage. The day I took my car in, to Mullins Car Service, Bill handed me the keys to the old red Cadillac he had been driving when he sideswiped me. He offered to loan me a car while he had mine. “Later, I decided I would trust Bill to fix the damage to my car. Little did I know that William Denton Mullins who had just dropped into my life, was about to take it over. I gave a noncommittal answer, and we parted amicably. My Prius was only six months old, and I wasn't going to let just anybody work on it. He told me he owned a garage in Woodlawn and would be happy to take care of the damage. He told me he needed to get to the airport quickly, where he was to meet his daughter Sandra to fly to Las Vegas, so did I mind handling the accident report by myself. We checked the damage on the passenger side of my car: scraped paint and a good size dent. “A pleasant-looking man got out and walked toward me. I carefully moved over to the shoulder, and another car pulled over in front of me. Traffic was heavy as I approached Birmingham's Malfunction Junction, where I-65 feeds into I-20/59, but I was in the lane I needed to be in, and wasn't concerned.
Find on Twitter.“My life took a sudden unexpected twist on June 28, 2010. I-15 southbound and eastbound Flamingo were closed until about 6:30 p.m.Ĭontact Max Michor at or 70. The man’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The occupants of the two vehicles were unhurt. Police say he was then struck by two vehicles, one of which was a taxi. When the man went to the side of the overpass and threw one leg over the edge, an officer approached and tried talking to him, but the man jumped off the bridge and landed in the I-15 southbound lanes. Jeff Goodwin said.īefore medical crews arrived, the man ran back to the bridge, but police didn’t immediately chase after him, Goodwin said. The man was stopped for jaywalking on Flamingo, and officers called for medical assistance after noticing the man was “under mental distress,” Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Las Vegas police say a man who fled a traffic stop died after jumping from an Interstate 15 freeway overpass Sunday afternoon.Īuthorities said the incident happened just before 2 p.m.
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