Jims Lucky Day....

Our dear friend got lucky a few days ago...
He retired after 30 years as Charles Shultz's right hand man for 30 years (you know Charlie Brown and Snoopy creator) he was given a surprise dinner party at a swanky nearby hotel, a brand new car, a nice amount of cash and a Rolex watch engraved "Happiness is working with Jim Doe for 30 years" the kids did their dad proud in honoring Jim...not bad for 30 years of service eh?
Then he was doing his daily loop down the hill from the estate he purchased last year...and Bam...he got hit while walking in the crosswalk. He called me this morning and told me that he feels so lucky to be alive..and that he was really glad he didn't see the car coming at him, as he would have tightened up and his injuries would have been much worse. He is sore, but he said "Jesus Tracy, the only injuries I have are a bit of road rash on my right elbow" . Amazing...below is the article from the paper..he still has his sense of humor..that he will Never lose!!



Jim Doe was two-thirds across a crosswalk on Bicentennial Way on Saturday when a car hit him, hard.
"All I knew was that there was a loud thud and the thud was me," said Doe, who retired a few years back after managing Charles Schulz's ice arena and gift shop for more than three decades.
Paramedics and sheriff's deputies who rushed to him there on the asphalt told him he'd flown more than 30 feet. That and two other things blew Doe's mind.
One was that he wasn't badly hurt, not a single bone was broken. The other was that so many people came to his aid, on the street and at the nearby Kaiser hospital, and he knew several of them.
"It's so good to see all those faces that you know," said a man grateful he's still alive and part of a caring community.
In the Kaiser emergency room, a CHP officer told him, "I used to work for you" at the ice rink. Doe asked her, "Did I fire you?"