71ChargerRT
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To misery and unhappiness today, AKA NJ.
Anyway, during a 3 hour trip of about 5 miles through a "construction" zone, we have a tornado warning, and heavy rain with a max of about 50 yard visibility. About a half mile up the road past that is an 18 wheeler on its side in the median, driver looked OK. Now we are making our way pretty easily up and down the hills of Tennessee, with idiots.
One of which is driving a MR SUV, one of the nice (high dollar) ones is flying down the left lane doing the high beam flashy thing. Mr Miniscule Appendage is doing his thing and runs up past me and does his flashy thing to a gentleman in very nice, very new rollback evidently unaware that the bed lights on one of those things are bright or more likely didn't even know they had them
. Well, MA gets a face full of 6 EXTREMELY bright LED's and backs way off of the RB. Eventually he makes his way around us and gets on down the road.
#2 offender with his U-Haul box van, pulling a trailer is going to pull the hills better than my truck. So he passes me on the uphill sweep, with a good head start, and blows by me. At the 1/2 way point, with my cruise control set at 70 mph, I smoke past that wheezing 5.4. Did I mention that I am pulling an 18 foot flat bed trailer with my 1980 Jeep Cherokee? I also have a bed full of not so light engine and transmissions and parts.
#3, ah yes these brain donors. In the hilly, or are they small mountains? :hmmm: anyway, these brain donors are pulled over on the right shoulder (I have to specify because of all the morons pulling over to the median side of the road) of a long, sweeping right handed curve at the bottom of one of these mountainous foothills. Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber are at the above mentioned place, did I mention it was dark?, about 6" outside of the white line changing a flat! The next exit was less than a mile down the road!!! Luckily for them as well as me I happened to notice the twins about 50 yards out and was able to slide into the left lane. That was far to close for comfort, so I pointed out their idiocy to my son who is 14 and will be driving soon, how dangerous it was. I also told him if that ever happens when he is driving no matter how far to the next exit just get the on the shoulder and drive cautiously until you get off the highway to a safe place to replace the tire. I told him no wheel is worth his life.
We're only half way there, I wonder what misadventures await us tomorrow! :hmmm:
Anyway, during a 3 hour trip of about 5 miles through a "construction" zone, we have a tornado warning, and heavy rain with a max of about 50 yard visibility. About a half mile up the road past that is an 18 wheeler on its side in the median, driver looked OK. Now we are making our way pretty easily up and down the hills of Tennessee, with idiots.
One of which is driving a MR SUV, one of the nice (high dollar) ones is flying down the left lane doing the high beam flashy thing. Mr Miniscule Appendage is doing his thing and runs up past me and does his flashy thing to a gentleman in very nice, very new rollback evidently unaware that the bed lights on one of those things are bright or more likely didn't even know they had them
. Well, MA gets a face full of 6 EXTREMELY bright LED's and backs way off of the RB. Eventually he makes his way around us and gets on down the road. #2 offender with his U-Haul box van, pulling a trailer is going to pull the hills better than my truck. So he passes me on the uphill sweep, with a good head start, and blows by me. At the 1/2 way point, with my cruise control set at 70 mph, I smoke past that wheezing 5.4. Did I mention that I am pulling an 18 foot flat bed trailer with my 1980 Jeep Cherokee? I also have a bed full of not so light engine and transmissions and parts.
#3, ah yes these brain donors. In the hilly, or are they small mountains? :hmmm: anyway, these brain donors are pulled over on the right shoulder (I have to specify because of all the morons pulling over to the median side of the road) of a long, sweeping right handed curve at the bottom of one of these mountainous foothills. Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber are at the above mentioned place, did I mention it was dark?, about 6" outside of the white line changing a flat! The next exit was less than a mile down the road!!! Luckily for them as well as me I happened to notice the twins about 50 yards out and was able to slide into the left lane. That was far to close for comfort, so I pointed out their idiocy to my son who is 14 and will be driving soon, how dangerous it was. I also told him if that ever happens when he is driving no matter how far to the next exit just get the on the shoulder and drive cautiously until you get off the highway to a safe place to replace the tire. I told him no wheel is worth his life.
We're only half way there, I wonder what misadventures await us tomorrow! :hmmm:
