Yesterday, here in Hessen....on A45 (autobahn) some 77-year old German gal was driving her car.
As HR tells the story....some piece of iron flew off the opposite side of the road and hit this gal's car window. You can see the damage caused.
For most folks (myself included)...it would have pretty much dissolved an emotional state of mind, and you would have wrecked the car in reacting to the windshield caving in like it did.
Shocker here? No real cuts or accident occurring. She brought the car to a stop. Some glass around the inside there, but the safety glass did exactly what it was supposed to do.
So the quote here? "Not a scratch."
Cops come out. Folks a bit surprised at what occurred. And the old German gal says things are fine, and she'd just drive on to her appointment (seeing a doctor). Yep, she intended to drive this car, with the windshield like was.....all the way to the appointment, and then back home.
On the German toughness scale....you'd have to rate this old gal as a '10', and my question obviously would have been over her husband (likely having passed on), and just how tough he was.....he was probably an '11').
Occasionally, you run into Germans like this. There are fewer and fewer of them though.
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