Bad morning to start with, don't ask. Then this. Ok, things come in 3 they say. Here I go. 1-Got pulled over for talking on cell phone. My Dad had called me from the Hospital so I answered because he's been in the Hospital for 2 month's now. Cop was cool and I got a warning. 2-My Car Club got all shook up from me being pulled over. So, 3 of the 5 of us get thru the intersection then the light turns yellow. My friend desides to stop in front of me. I almost kissed his back end but luckily he heard the tires screaching and rolled forward just enough. Ok, I'm doing good so far. So #3 now, we leave our morning event and I deside to launch the car. Well I forgot about the Muncie in the trunk and it wanted out. Now I have a deck lid that now looks like a sack with 1 walnut in it .
Just in case things come in 4s on April fools day to be on the safe side just sit in the easy chair with a cool one and watch the tube until tomorrow comes. Oh....and if you smoke don't fall to sleep with a cigarette!!!
For real's. I'm just 5 feet from my Lazy Boy right now. Hope I don't flip over backward's cuz mine rock's and recline's .
Don't even think about moving out of that chair until midnight ! I was hauling a brand new transmission to our shop that I had bought from Jackson Racing, it was in the back of my jeep pickup that had one of those webbing tailgates on it. I took off from a light, forgetting it was back there and it went through the webbing and the entire crate landed upside down in the middle of the intersection. I pulled over and a nice guy stopped and helped me drag it to the side of the road and some other guys stopped and helped lift it back into the bed. Jackson must build some good wooden shipping crates because only one cross piece of wood snapped and the trans looked perfect. But I won the Dumb*** of the Year award that day. Don
Sorry to hear about your misfortunes this morning. G;ad you are OK. But remember things could have been worse.
For sure Pau_, I wou_d try correcting G;ad for you but I'm afraid if I hit the key between k and ; my computer wi__ blow up .
But I here there's a guy with alot of decal's there. Do you think he has anything to cover the spider web cracks on my deck lid .
Sounds ;like you are all getting all the bad stuff covered all in one day . That good in a way . Now you can count on a good week with everything going your way now with no bad things happening ! Retro Jim
LOL--my dad did the same thing on his 35 when I was in high school. he told me to move the car. I did, but missed 1st gear when I parked it and hit 4th. popped out of gear and rolled back across the driveway into a tree (fortunatly becuse the bank droppped off about 40 feet beyond the tree). after he got over the shock and anger he painte the bandaid on it remind me about it every time we took the car out.
Just had a day like that myself, except I did not get off with a warning. Got stopped in an intersection when the light turned yellow, then red. Got a $150 ticket from a condescending cop. For the next week I watched about 30 people blatantly run red lights in the same intersection. Good times.
Ticket or Warning was not the issue. When I looked in my rear view I knew he had me even before he lit the Cheeries. I never stopped talking to my Dad. I pulled over, shut the car off, and started pulling Insurance Registration and Licence and handed them to the officer as I still talk to my Dad. I told the officer I was talking to my Dad that's in the Hospital and do what you need to do, I don't care this is my Dad and I know what I was doing is wrong but O well. I'll pay the ticket, it don't matter. The officer was just doing his job.
If it cheers you up any, one of my former employers was a John Deere Dealership, and the owner was in his 80's, anyway, he offered to take an electric motor for one of the other techs, down to the rebuild shop. The rebuild shop was in Columbus, and was about 40 miles from our shop. The old man claimed to be a safe driver, and not to call him a liar, but it took 2 of us to put this motor in the trunk of his Mercedes..It must have weighed a couple hundred pounds. Anyway, when he returned the next day, I noticed some damage on his car, and he said the motor should have been tied down.... It tried to escape out the left rear quarter panel...and his looked like a sack with 2 walnuts in it....
How 'bout THIS one... When I was 18 or so I borrowed my Dad's little Dodge truck to haul a big-*** Olds 455 I got for free out to the garage where my friends and I built cars. I took into account that it would try to slide toward the tailgate if I took off at a light, so I tied it off to the two forward-most stake holes in the top edge of the bed. There were a few things I didn't account for, however; 1) the engine weighed about as much as a Dodge D50 (which was now looking like it was bagged), so braking was going to be compromised, and 2) forward motion of the enormous engine was not going to be appropriately stopped by the forward wall of the truck bed. So the story goes like this... At every light, when I took off the lashings holding the engine toward the front of the bed would loosen and stretch, and eventually the engine traveled toward the rear of the bed, and eventually right about over the rear axle. The driver in front braked rather suddenly, so I had to do the same. They didn't grab so well due in part to the weight now over the rear axle, so I pushed harder. No ABS on a D50. The brakes locked up and I could hear the engine sliding across the bed like a freight train. I had just enough time to glance up into the rear view mirror and say "Ohhhh shiiiiii..." At about the same moment I impacted the rear bumper of the car in front of me, the engine came through the cab water pump first, smashing the rear window, and buckling the bench seat. To this day, more than 20 years later, Dad hesitates to let me borrow his truck...
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