“If we get in an accident, you will go headfirst through the window and your children will wake up tomorrow morning without a father.” “Sounds like a personal problem,” he said, and chuckled quietly to himself. “Sounds like a personal problem” was one of his stock responses, along with “What’s this ‘we’ business, white man?” He used each of them about a dozen times a day; they never lost their freshness or their wide applicability.

