That is God's way of saying, "Take the day off and stay home."
Good that everyone is ok..
Lester
On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Heard wrote:
> Well, I've had an interesting morning. Driving my old Tahoe with
> 290,000
> miles on it to work. Traveling down a dirt road in front of my
> house, I ran
> over a piece pipe buried in the sand. It wrapped around the axle
> near the
> left rear wheel and broke the brake line. I knew I had hit
> something but
> didn't realize it was stuck until I got to the pavement and heard
> something
> scraping down the pavement. I hit the brakes and they went to the
> floor. I
> managed to get it stopped, called my trusty wrecker service and
> turned on
> the flashers. You might think this is strange enough, but you would
> be
> incorrect....
>
> I call my buddy at work and ask him to come get me so I can go back
> to the
> house and get a different car. He shows up and we are standing in
> the road
> behind my vehicle waiting for the wrecker. This is a pretty
> isolated road.
> We see the wrecker coming down the dirt road and I notice there is a
> car
> behind it. The wrecker pulls over into the grass on the other side
> of the
> road and I'm thinking...OK, he is going to turn around and grab my
> truck
> from the rear. At that moment, he does exactly that...not knowing
> there is
> a car behind him. So this young lady driving a Maxima, swerves to
> miss the
> wrecker, just scrapes his bumper and my buddy and I both have to
> leap off
> the road because she is heading right for us. Sure enough, she
> plows right
> into the rear of my truck. I'm pretty sure it totalled the Maxima.
> It
> shoved my parked Tahoe about 15 feet and bent my bumper. The girl
> was OK
> thanks to the air bags.
>
> I almost had to go change my shorts, and at this point, I'm thinking
> I need
> more coffee....and another wrecker.
>
>
> Heard
> _______
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