Wazz went down (Remembering Tina Wasserott)

[DMPLATT]

Greg,

Words well spoken! Thoughts and prayers are with you and the kids.

[renobruce]

Hey Greg,

It was an honor to meet you. I wish we had had more time to BS. I'm sure I'll see you again. I hope you come out again next year. You are welcome here anytime. Best wishes and prayers for continued strength.

[cableguy]

I don't know Greg and Tina, but I understand the pain of the loss. My deepest condolences go out to Greg and the families. As the shock and hurt fades, the good memories and the love shared will remain, and that's how we make peace with the loss of loved ones. Keep on keepin' on.....

[wellsmw]

Wazz,

Think about you guys everyday. Love you man!

[FoxyBLankworthy]

Greg,
It was a privilege to meet you at Brown County. I never had the honor of meeting Tina, but she lives on in the spirits of yourself, and the amazing people I met in Indiana. Each person here knows we lost a family member last year. My deepest condolences go to you and your family.

It's common knowledge that I went down on Route 250 on the way back from the rally. Damage was non-existent. To say I got lucky is a hell of an understatement. The worst that happened was my mirror apparatus was wiggled to the side. I wound up upside-down in the softest ditch in Southern Indiana. Not only was I not sore the following day, but I didn't even crush the two packs of clove cigarettes I had purchased for my girlfriend and subsequently landed on. Honestly, the chances of getting out a get-off that easily are probably on-par with winning the lottery.

It may not be my place to say this. I kind of feel like I ought to though. Everyone's beliefs run a little differently. However, I honestly feel like there was some level of intervention here. I was spared. I feel like someone spared me. I could have just as easily wiped out dead in the center of the road. I could have landed in a pile of jagged rocks. I did not. Those of us who are Christian may like to think an angel protected me. A more agnostic individual may think that balance was upheld in the universe by not allowing another rider to be injured when someone else had paid too steep of a price just a short time prior.

Personally, I believe Tina's spirit refused to allow me to be hurt in a rally named in her honor. I think it really does work like that. This is what I choose to believe. And I felt like I had to share that.

[oramac]

<== Chocolate Milk

[Redman]

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[wazz]

I'm happy the chocolate milk toast is celebrated, makes me smile.

For the benefit of those who may not know, Tina always capped a days ride with a choclate milk. Following her service, everyone raised a glass in her memory.
Pretty cool IMHO

It was one of those small things, but as Greg White (gbw) said "I'll never drink choclate milk again without thinking of Tina".

Thanks for keeping Tina in your thoughts and prayers.

-greg

[Planecrazy]

I'm happy the chocolate milk toast is celebrated, makes me smile.

For the benefit of those who may not know, Tina always capped a days ride with a choclate milk. Following her service, everyone raised a glass in her memory.
Pretty cool IMHO

It was one of those small things, but as Greg White (gbw) said "I'll never drink choclate milk again without thinking of Tina".

Thanks for keeping Tina in your thoughts and prayers.

-greg

Greg,

Greg is absolutely right. Not only do fond thoughts of Tina come up with every chocolate milk consumed, but I usually wind up mentioning its significance to whoever I'm with. Tina winds up touching people who never met her, and her memory carries on.

Regards,

[pmint patti]

Awe Greg,
I just saw this and am so terribly sorry I haven't expressed my sincere concern for you and your deep feeling of loss. God be with you.

BTW: She's still here. Spirits do not die.

Sending buckets of love,
pmint

ps. I LOVE chocolate milk and will toast you both...right now!!!

[wazz]

Haven't logged on in quite a while, thought it may be time.

Today would have been Tina's 55th birthday, gone for 5 1/2 years.

Time marches on and we somehow keep moving along, not always easy, but you have little choice.
Birthdays, holiday days and most of all Mothers Day are tough for the kids, but they also get thru it, they understand the world doesn't end because of loss or despair...

Grief is a b*tch, but guilt is a far worse. Missing someone hurts, but what hurts even more is knowing you're the reason that they are gone. My cross to bear...

That being said, Tina will never get old or sick, and will forever remain just as we remember her, happily riding along.

[Planecrazy]

Haven't logged on in quite a while, thought it may be time.

Today would have been Tina's 55th birthday, gone for 5 1/2 years.

Time marches on and we somehow keep moving along, not always easy, but you have little choice.
Birthdays, holiday days and most of all Mothers Day are tough for the kids, but they also get thru it, they understand the world doesn't end because of loss or despair...

Grief is a b*tch, but guilt is a far worse. Missing someone hurts, but what hurts even more is knowing you're the reason that they are gone. My cross to bear...

That being said, Tina will never get old or sick, and will forever remain just as we remember her, happily riding along.

Greg,

My heart goes out to you on difficult days like today, and Tina is fondly remembered and thought of more often than you may know. I hope it makes you smile to know that earlier today, for no particular reason, I had the urge to have a big rich extra chocolaty cup of the good stuff, and I did - perhaps that was Tina's influence? Seeing your post and realizing that I raised a glass to her without even realizing it made me smile. ;-)

[marvinsc]

There are times when words ring hollow but Greg, I hope and pray you sense the support and good will sent your way today and every day from people from all over, some who you have never met and some of us who get to share a couple of days with you once in a great while.

[bonanzadave]

Geez ! I never met either one of you but this story hurts every time it comes up. Ill be 55 in a month. I'm compelled to make one of these rally's in her honor. Greg, I wish you and the Wazz family peace.....

[cowboyup3371]

Greg, I've always been told that a couple compliments each other. Though I never met Tina, I have had the pleasure of meeting and riding with you the last two years at BC and I'm sure she was one heck of a nice person. My thoughts are with you and your family.