mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
Wife here is a little ol' NE Florida native.....never had seen much outside of Florida and really not much of this state even.....treadmill of life.....
SO, a comment about changing leaves made me think of this trip we had a few years ago....she wanted to see the changing of the leaves come fall season....
So for her birthday present, we went up one October to a good starting point on the Blueridge Pkwy in Carolina....to pick up Skyline Drive and mosey our way up to the DC region.....so she took a ton of pix and saw trees and all the fall colors really good, looking over the Shenandoah Valley, stopping many times for pix taking....
Visited many friends including one guy who owns a old Flower Mill up near I81 and I70 intersection ....another story entirely....
so we heading south on I 95 after a week, and in Virginia, south of Richmond, at 10 am, this clown in a black pickup comes off the ramp like MAD, passes us like we standing still, and we indicating 80mph.....
he weaves all over the road, drunk as a skunk, almost slams a 18 wheeler in the ass, smoking all 4 wheels in a panic stop, recovers to pass the truck and cut him off as the pickup exists on Pope road.....big hurry to get to church and sleep it off, I guess.....
SO, we are still heading south, and just south of Savannah Ga. I still doing 80 in the left lane, and we figger on ~2 hours and we be home....
so this white full length crew cab, long bed pickup with a concrete/stucco trailer on back is pulling out onto the freeway....I glance over and he wig wagged the trailer just a tad, but understandable as he was looking in the mirror, one thing, the tongue of the trailer was super high in the air, the trailer had the concrete tub, gas engine, screens, and it was full of white stucco looking all over it....very LARGE wheels tires.....
all sorts of shit in the pickup bed.....
About a mile later, I happend to get VERY lucky and glance in my Rear View mirror, and see him coming......I cruising 80, and he slamming on me like I was in reverse....and that stupid trailer on this 3 lane freeway, him in the center lane.....was sashaying left and right and taking up 1/2 of each lane.....I see that, wince look again, and yell to Linda, OH GOD GIMME GO!!!!! as a floor her little Escort....she hears this and looks around in about a nanosecond she goes pale white, and eyes open mouth about to scream....that damn trailer hit us and be be dead into the weeds/trees in the median .....
Poor little car barely able to keep pace, but then, the traffic behind us slowed, and saved their asses we hope....as the trailer came off the hitch, and exploded into a cloud of white dust....saw the mixing tub, wheels/tires separate from axle and engine came off mounts, as the frame tumbled along the tarmac....the stupid bastard shoot past us and then one of the guys looks out over the back of the truck and shakes his head....no mixer, I have to suppose.....he lifts and so the last we seen was a HUGE brown/black motor home/bus in the median grass and still upright and not in the trees.....
Now here is the comedy.....not 4 days later, Linda coming off local freeway ramp engine blew up.....fixed it 750 bux later.....
go figger.....:lol::sos::crap:
SO, a comment about changing leaves made me think of this trip we had a few years ago....she wanted to see the changing of the leaves come fall season....
So for her birthday present, we went up one October to a good starting point on the Blueridge Pkwy in Carolina....to pick up Skyline Drive and mosey our way up to the DC region.....so she took a ton of pix and saw trees and all the fall colors really good, looking over the Shenandoah Valley, stopping many times for pix taking....
Visited many friends including one guy who owns a old Flower Mill up near I81 and I70 intersection ....another story entirely....
so we heading south on I 95 after a week, and in Virginia, south of Richmond, at 10 am, this clown in a black pickup comes off the ramp like MAD, passes us like we standing still, and we indicating 80mph.....
he weaves all over the road, drunk as a skunk, almost slams a 18 wheeler in the ass, smoking all 4 wheels in a panic stop, recovers to pass the truck and cut him off as the pickup exists on Pope road.....big hurry to get to church and sleep it off, I guess.....
SO, we are still heading south, and just south of Savannah Ga. I still doing 80 in the left lane, and we figger on ~2 hours and we be home....
so this white full length crew cab, long bed pickup with a concrete/stucco trailer on back is pulling out onto the freeway....I glance over and he wig wagged the trailer just a tad, but understandable as he was looking in the mirror, one thing, the tongue of the trailer was super high in the air, the trailer had the concrete tub, gas engine, screens, and it was full of white stucco looking all over it....very LARGE wheels tires.....
all sorts of shit in the pickup bed.....
About a mile later, I happend to get VERY lucky and glance in my Rear View mirror, and see him coming......I cruising 80, and he slamming on me like I was in reverse....and that stupid trailer on this 3 lane freeway, him in the center lane.....was sashaying left and right and taking up 1/2 of each lane.....I see that, wince look again, and yell to Linda, OH GOD GIMME GO!!!!! as a floor her little Escort....she hears this and looks around in about a nanosecond she goes pale white, and eyes open mouth about to scream....that damn trailer hit us and be be dead into the weeds/trees in the median .....
Poor little car barely able to keep pace, but then, the traffic behind us slowed, and saved their asses we hope....as the trailer came off the hitch, and exploded into a cloud of white dust....saw the mixing tub, wheels/tires separate from axle and engine came off mounts, as the frame tumbled along the tarmac....the stupid bastard shoot past us and then one of the guys looks out over the back of the truck and shakes his head....no mixer, I have to suppose.....he lifts and so the last we seen was a HUGE brown/black motor home/bus in the median grass and still upright and not in the trees.....
Now here is the comedy.....not 4 days later, Linda coming off local freeway ramp engine blew up.....fixed it 750 bux later.....
go figger.....:lol::sos::crap:
:surrender::thumbs:
