Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said his three sons' holdings included small interests in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Wendy's International Inc. Those companies' fast-food products seem counterintuitive (emphasis Knuckles') for the senator, a heart surgeon and avid jogger.
Years ago, Knuckles was acquainted with a heart surgeon who seriously considered opening up a motorcycle dealership to sell motorcycles at cost. The catch? The buyers would have to sign a form that would give the surgeon an option on their heart in the event of a fatal crash.
That's when Knuckle's learned that heart surgeons looooove motorcycles. The faster the better. Motorcyclists tend to be young, fit, and reckless. A fatal crash is usually caused by head traums -- or the medical term: Cranial Matter Splatterus Over Interstatus. Unless a fallen rider is subsequently run over by a tractor-trailer, or even the new F-150, the ribs do a fine job protecting the heart.
This surgeon was very serious about the idea. But he decided against it because it on "doing-this-would-make-me-feel-like-a-ghoul" moral grounds. Which pissed off a 20 year-old Knuckles who was looking forward to a new 750 Kawasaki...
BTW, so what if Frist is an avid jogger? Wasn't jogging invented as a faster way to get to the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts?
1 comments:
Driving a motorcycle at high speed is very safe.
It's the sudden stops that are a problem.
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