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Show asked me to take them home, see. And I was driving, it was a rainy night, dark, naturally, and I got into an accident. I drank a little bit, you could smell liquor on me but I was able to drive a car but I was taking these two gentlemen back. There was a man on a bicycle and he had this black pancho, raincoat and I didn't see him. We were on a curve and he was going on the left hand side, well, of· course, it was left hand driving in Japan. It was around a curve and I didn't see him so in order to avoid hitting him, I hit a telephone pole, a sheer telephone pole. Of course, the speed, I was only going thirty miles in those days and it was raining and the guy had on a black pancho and, of course, there was no taillight or anything like that so in order to avoid hitting him I hit a telephone pole and I wrecked the car. And, of course, the accident was investigated by the military police and, of course, the report went to headquarters so they said I should have used better judgment. Well, of course, I should have but it was beyond my control and because of that accident, they relieved me of my liaison responsibility in the district. I had only been there for three or four days I guess and reassigned me to the labor desk there. I had that experience in labor as I mentioned to you before, the labor desk at the headquarters of Region 4, the most important region in the country. 57 |
