You guys are completely missing the reason for this. If you grew up LDs with TBM parents they you were raised on story about how stan will do anything to stop you from going to the temple. I remember how some people wouldn't even say out loud that they were going to the temple because stan would hear and do something to stop you. I guess the thinking is that he can't read your thoughts.
The only way they can spin this is to remind people not to say out loud that you are going to the temple. Otherwise you're completely screwed.
From the news report, sounds like they turned right in front on oncoming traffic.
Switching from driving on the right to driving on the left or vice versa is not easy - one lapse of concentration can be bad news, as it was here.
I learned to drive in the USA on the right, now I live in a country where we drive on the left. When I go back to visit the USA I have to be super careful not to screw up, especially when turning at an intersection.
Charity account? For an optometrist & a dentist? Now I've heard it all. What about a charity account for the truck driver that will forever be traumatized by a negligent Mormon?
angela Davis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Visiting the temple while on vacation...I never > did think that made any sense.
Doesn't make any sense when NOT on vacation either.
Years ago, when I was never a Mormon, and my spouse was a "jack Mormon", we were on vacation on Oahu.
We just HAD to go to the temple (even though neither of us were endowed). We stood on the sidewalk outside and took pictures (I just saw them again last week).
It was bizarre to me, but I was going along to get along. What's the harm? Well, now I know what the harm is. At least we didn't die on the way.
All the jokes aside, Richard is a friend of mine that I’ve known from the 5th grade through graduation until now. He is a good man. My heart goes out to him and his family.
How sad that they died! The deceased couple had young children. How awful for them. I agree that driving on the opposite side of the road can be a challenge. Perhaps the driver became confused in some way.
My brain is simply too hard-wired from half-a-century of driving the American way.
When I was visiting with Brigantia in England, she drove me around to meet some of her children and grandchildren. LET ME STRESS HERE THAT HER DRIVING WAS IMPECCABLE! But the whole British system of driving on the "other" side of the road had me tangled in knots until I became more accustomed to it with several more days on the road with the tour bus.
I could live very happily in the UK. I love it over there. But I would take public transportation everywhere.
That is awful news, it looks like the driver moved onto the wrong side of the road after turning a corner. The temple is on Tuhikaramea Road, they can only have been minutes away.
I spent a month driving in New Zealand and the very first night I made a left turn into a wrong lane and pretty much shut down traffic in Christchurch. It's very easy to do driving on the left. But this sounds more like he was driving recklessly .
If you drive in NZ especially on the south island, even the most major roads are at most two lane highways and mountain roads can be very narrow with logging trucks etc. Also NZ is the land one very long one lane bridges that people race across at high speed in the back country… beautiful country …. it's a shame they were not headed to Raglan or something better than death in route to the silly temple.
All my life I heard that you would be protected going to and from the temple. I also was taught that nothing bad would ever happen to your children while you were at the temple.
Then, A person I grew up with was at the temple with hubby. Left toddler and 4 yo with their teenager. 4 yo accidentally shot and killed toddler while parents were supposedly saving dead people.
Not long after that a family with 5 kids was in a head on accident on their way to be sealed. Everyone of the kids died.
I haven't heard the temple/protection bs since then. One huge brick kerchunked as it landed on the shelf.