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Pounder: I feel like such a Boy Scout

Pounder on August 15 at 2:23 p.m.

Just stopped at the Subway on 95, and as I was getting ready to leave I saw a young lady get out of her small car and head inside. As I’m about to pull forward to leave, her car starts to roll backwards, just missing my wife’s car as she left ahead of me. I have to admit, I paused a couple seconds to ponder if I could just leave without getting involved, even after realizing that the car had no driver. But in the end I jumped out and stopped the car bodily and pushed it back into the parking space as another guy saw me and ran over to put the brake on, and we saved two cars from getting needlessly dinged. I feel like such a boyscout.

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.