November 1998
My
name is Seymour Wolinsky, younger
brother of Nathan
Wolinsky. I will be going back about 69 years at which
time I was 7 or 8 years old and Nathan
was 13 or 14. I'm going to recall accidents
that Nate and I had with him driving. I was always with
him. I'll
let you decide whether I was his charm or his jinx.
All dates will be approximate.
We
drove to the next platform
and the pickup truck was loading milk. Nate pulled up to the platform a little too fast, hit the brakes and the front wheels locked up. He hit the sand on the shoulder
of the road. The more he pushed the brakes,
the more he was pulled into the
sand and toward
the truck.
They were loading the milk on the truck with the tailboard half-way
down. We hit the truck
so hard that all the glass from our truck flew out and the truck was totaled.
Call it luck or someone looking
over us, the milk truck tailboard was just head high to us and would have decapitated us if it was down, but it flew up and we had only a few minor
scratches. Again, we had no insurance.
The
first two accidents
were in part Nate's fault and mostly my father's
fault for letting him
drive on the road with no license.
I don't know why he never
got a ticket for driving without a license.
The third accident was about three years later. He now had a license! This accident was not
Nate's fault, and I was with him again My
father had purchased a brand-new
Plymouth car in the early 1930's. Again he had just made the last payment on the car.
He
sent Nate to deliver four cans of milk to a customer. The weather
was zero degrees. We went to deliver
the milk at a normal rate of speed, and were making
a right tum when a limousine
behind us rammed us at about 70 mph. He drove our car into the front of a house that had a 2-foot by 2-foot cement
pole on the corner of the house. It fell on the car. Milk cans, milk covers, and milk flew all over the car! We were soaked from head to foot with milk.
When we stepped out of the car, we became two instant frozen
popsicles, but were otherwise unhurt
