Just in case you're having a bad day...
Don Reeves
decided to put brakes on my wife's car. Easy 1hr project... When I pulled
the front driver side tire off I noticed the CV joint boot had a crack in
it. No problem, I went to Auto Zone and got a replacement boot kit. On my
way back my old pickup truck caught on fire! It didn't burn up but it was a
lost cause. It could have been worse if not for the kindness of a passing
motorist with a fire extinguisher. She even waited until the fire department
left to give me a ride to the next exit. I was going to call my wife but
remembered that the car was in pieces... I called my father and he came to
get me. he lives an hour away so I had to sit at the gas station and wait.
Now my old truck is sitting on the shoulder of I-75. I don't even want it
back. It's a total loss and I don't want to look at it again. Maybe I'll let
the police tow it to the impound lot and keep it. God what a week end!! I
did get my wife's car fixed though. Now I'm just sitting, staring at the
monitor woundering what's next... I think I'll have another beer.
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Utah Reject.
Peter
about your luck.
Pete
"Don Reeves" <nom...@nomail.com> wrote in message
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Richard
Murphy's Law week for me:
Get to yard pick up truck. Won't start. Mechanic happens to be there so he
jumps it.
Find trailer. Back under trailer. Cant' raise dolly's, frozen in ice.
Mechanic brings yard tractor over to free it.
Pull trailer out, mechanic notices a bad tire. Winds up replacing tire.
Four hours later on the road.
Eventually get to Rapid City for first stop, now at the end of the day
instead of morning as planned.
Fog rolling in. Stop to eat. Take a nap. Wake up in extreme dense fog. Go
back to bed.
Locals say stay out of the black hills. bad news for truckers.
Finally head off for my final in denver. In wyoming two caribou pups jump
out in front of me. Hit one.
Luckily no damage to the truck.
Get to Cheyenne for the night. Get up early. Get fuel.
Lock self out of truck. Wait an hour for the locksmith.
Finally get to denver and unload.
Just another week on the road.
Truckinsp
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>Murphy's Law week for me:
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>Get to yard pick up truck. Won't start. Mechanic happens to be there so he
>jumps it.
>Find trailer. Back under trailer. Cant' raise dolly's, frozen in ice.
>Mechanic brings yard tractor over to free it.
>Pull trailer out, mechanic notices a bad tire. Winds up replacing tire.
>Four hours later on the road.
>Eventually get to Rapid City for first stop, now at the end of the day
>instead of morning as planned.
>Fog rolling in. Stop to eat. Take a nap. Wake up in extreme dense fog. Go
>back to bed.
>Locals say stay out of the black hills. bad news for truckers.
>Finally head off for my final in denver. In wyoming two caribou pups jump
>out in front of me. Hit one.
>Luckily no damage to the truck.
>Get to Cheyenne for the night. Get up early. Get fuel.
>Lock self out of truck. Wait an hour for the locksmith.
>Finally get to denver and unload.
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>Just another week on the road.
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What BS....name a week or even a day when you haven't been posting on this AND
many other boards....I am assuming from the "ice" you aren't talking about last
week.....but no of course you couldn't be...you were getting shot down in all
the other boards you post to......love how Larry shoots you down in "legal"....
LOLOLOL....Caribou "pups"???????
You even know what a Caribou is?
Also have a few problems with your "route".....LOLOLOL.....if you want to
pretend to be a trucker, you should really learn how to read a map......
You are SUCH a JOKE, stoopid.......
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Amy D
We had one of those last weekend when Ron was home. Ron wanted to leave
here by 7 am so he could stop at the TA and get a tire fixed. Yeah,
right -- you know he left like 11:00 am -- or tried to anyway. :) The
day before he told me "You need to park here" -- under the old oak tree
<I guess to save the paint from the sun or something??>. We got out to
the car and ready to put the kids in and it was full of ANTS!! I'm
like "No way! I'm not putting the baby in with all those ants!" Not
sure what I would have done if he hadn't been here. So he raced down to
the car wash 1/4 mile and spent about $10 vacumming and washing the dumb
thing.
He comes back -- I feed him lunch and we head out to the car again. Its
COVERED with ants and they are moving back in! He pops the hood and
it's just crawling with ants under the hood. He freaks out and arms
himself with a can of Raid and starts spraying. Out runs a RAT!! He
flips out and says, "WE ARE MOVING NOW!! Don't even make this months
payment!" LOL! The rat ran back IN. While he is flipping out I notice
one of my belts is about broke in half. He says, "Shit -- I'm not
leaving until I fix that!"
Him and Jason take off to the auto part store <and the belt broke on
the way> and they come back. The belt is too small <they checked on the
computer>. He puts it back to together and goes back and gets another
belt. It's too big! He puts it back together and goes back <he can
drive without this belt -- not sure what it was?> but I talk him into
taking the tools with him and doing it there this time. :) He gets it
fixed and brings back a can of freon -- I haven't had AC yet this summer
but I was being too stingy to go in -- too scared of the BIG BILL.
We stood out there and pumped it full of freoen -- it worked! I came
back in to get the baby ready AGAIN and he was still outside. He came
in all WILD-EYED and I'm like "OMG__WHAT!!" He had tangled with the
rat! LMAO! It ran out and he threw a wrench at it -- swung a bat at it
a few times -- and it ran back IN the engine! LOL! He said, "Rat traps
under the car NOW! And find a place to live!!" LOL
We filled the radiator with water, too -- because it was empty -- and
while I was in Gulport looking at a house the other day it dumped all
the coolant out -- a bunch anyway. I filled it with water and took it
to Goodyear. They found NOTHING wrong! Pressurized it TWICE....they
didn't say anything about a rat though.....LOL!
Anyway, have another beer, Don! :)
amy
Joe Blow
Damn, Don, sorry to hear that. But wait, it coulda' been worse, you
could've lost your mind and signed on with Swift...
Richard
"Truckinsp" <truc...@aol.com> wrote in message
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For lack of a better description since an adult would have survived and the
truck would have been mangled.
> You even know what a Caribou is?
Yes I do know. We had a caribou hide draped over a sofa for years. Which was
purchased in Alaska.
http://www.greatwhitebeartours.com/images/summer/caribou.jpg
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> Also have a few problems with your "route".....LOLOLOL.....if you want to
> pretend to be a trucker, you should really learn how to read a map......
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Wi-80, wi-21. I-94, I-90, stop in rapid city sd. I-90, I-25 south to denver.
Since south dakota borders wyoming, and the black hills are in both states,
it would appear that you have no kloos for reading a map.
Roughrider50
discrepancy in this thread. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you say you
T-boned a caribou(AKA Reindeer) in WY?? In all my travels around WY &
neighboring states I've never seen a Caribou on the loose. Some clown
dressed as Santa once had a reindeer at a mall in Rawlins around Xmas, but
that's about it.I took the liberty into checking to see if I missed
something:
"Caribou and reindeer are the same species (Rangifer tarandus). Reindeer are
a domesticated variety of caribou that are herded by humans and used for
pulling sleds. Most reindeer occur in Scandinavia and Siberia. They
generally are smaller and have shorter legs than their wild relatives. In
Siberia, caribou are referred to as "wild" reindeer.
Caribou are found in Alaska and Canada. Caribou used to live in Maine and
the northern Great Lakes states, but they are now extinct in those areas. A
small, endangered caribou herd exists in northern Idaho and northwest
Montana.
An unusual situation exists at South Georgia, an island near Antarctica,
where reindeer from Norway were introduced in the early 1900's. Because of
the opposite seasons in the southern hemisphere, these animals had to change
the timing of breeding and calving by a half year.
(A population of 8 reindeer are believed to live at the North Pole. These
unusual animals, guided by one with a red nose, are reported to have the
capability of flight!)
Please Richard tell me.......did he have a red nose?
--
Roughrider50
"Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message news:bebnv...@enews1.newsguy.com...
Truckinsp
Yea, when I lived in Idaho, if a caribou wandered down from Canada, it was a
BIG DEAL and usually made the papers......
There MIGHT be some game farms in WY that have caribou, but I doubt it....you
will also note that he hit a "pup".....and that it did no damage to his
"truck".....my guess is that he was watching some TV show.....or sitting in his
armchair drinking and fantasizing.....
Truckinsp
>> Also have a few problems with your "route".....LOLOLOL.....if you want to
>> pretend to be a trucker, you should really learn how to read a map......
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>Wi-80, wi-21. I-94, I-90, stop in rapid city sd. I-90, I-25 south to denver.
>Since south dakota borders wyoming, and the black hills are in both states,
>it would appear that you have no kloos for reading a map.
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No stooopid, being a a wannabe, you wouldn't know you took the "greenhorn"
route..... from your little scenario, you must have driven up to
Buffalo......your imaginary boss must have loved you......you turned a 400 mile
trip from Rapid City to Denver into a 600 mile trip, and there's the fact that
you drove to Rapid City in one day, and then you drove between Rapid City and
Cheyenne in one day....what were you going - 50 mph????
Must have been that "Caribou pup" slowing you down....did you see any pink
elephants too?
Now don't make up some story about a snowstorm on I-25.....you would have
mentioned THAT in your original post......yes, yes, I know....for all the
others, I-25 HAS memorable snow storms.....
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extinguisher, they fill those ones with gas......
Meat-->Plow
At least you have your computer and beer.
Meat-->Plow
How old is this? Certainly happened many weeks ago while you had a part time job
before Gardner fired you.
Meat-->Plow
I recall St00pid posting something about driving through a blinding snow storm
in Miami.
Alex Cain
"Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message
> Murphy's Law week for me:
>
> Get to yard pick up truck. Won't start. Mechanic happens to be there so he
> jumps it.
> Find trailer. Back under trailer. Cant' raise dolly's, frozen in ice.
> Mechanic brings yard tractor over to free it.
> Pull trailer out, mechanic notices a bad tire. Winds up replacing tire.
> Four hours later on the road.
> Eventually get to Rapid City for first stop, now at the end of the day
> instead of morning as planned.
> Fog rolling in. Stop to eat. Take a nap. Wake up in extreme dense fog. Go
> back to bed.
> Locals say stay out of the black hills. bad news for truckers.
> Finally head off for my final in denver. In wyoming two caribou pups jump
> out in front of me. Hit one.
> Luckily no damage to the truck.
> Get to Cheyenne for the night. Get up early. Get fuel.
> Lock self out of truck. Wait an hour for the locksmith.
> Finally get to denver and unload.
>
> Just another week on the road.
>
This is a load of crap, Bullis.
Alex Cain
"Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message news:bebnv...@enews1.newsguy.com...
There is no such thing as a caribou "pup," st00pid.
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> Yes I do know. We had a caribou hide draped over a sofa for years. Which
was
> purchased in Alaska.
> http://www.greatwhitebeartours.com/images/summer/caribou.jpg
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to
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denver.
> Since south dakota borders wyoming, and the black hills are in both
states,
> it would appear that you have no kloos for reading a map.
You are so fucking st00pid.
Alex Cain
"Roughrider50" <roughr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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* ROFL *
St00pid probably hit a deer and just didn't recognize it since it wasn't
wearing panties or a tight swimsuit.
Alex Cain
"Meat-->Plow" <Me...@x-anon.com> wrote in message
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You're kidding, right?
Meat-->Plow
Sarcasm but not to far out in left field for some of the more intense bullishit
he posts.
egpowers
> Murphy's Law week for me:
> Get to yard pick up truck. Won't start. Mechanic happens to be there so he
> jumps it.
> Find trailer. Back under trailer. Cant' raise dolly's, frozen in ice.
> Mechanic brings yard tractor over to free it.
> Pull trailer out, mechanic notices a bad tire. Winds up replacing tire.
> Four hours later on the road.
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and by many different people??
Eventually get to Rapid City for first stop, now at the end of the
day
> instead of morning as planned.
> Fog rolling in. Stop to eat. Take a nap. Wake up in extreme dense fog. Go
> back to bed.
> Locals say stay out of the black hills. bad news for truckers.
> Finally head off for my final in denver.
Why take the long route from Rapid to Denver?? The route you
propose is 2 hours longer than the normal Rapid to Denver route, and
is frought with danger, ie; animals, wind, sparse country.
In wyoming two caribou pups jump
> out in front of me. Hit one.
> Luckily no damage to the truck.
Caribou in Wyoming??? Hmmm, I've run extensively in Wyoming, seen
Moose, Antelope (state animal), deer, elk, bear, bald eagles (don't
hit one, it's a felony), and various other small game but according
Wyo. fish and wildlife Caribou are not native to Wyo. and by doing an
online search I can only find two game farms in Wyo. that have Caribou
and none are in the area of the state you are proposing to run. Now,
perhaps a small antelope, deer or elk, okay. No damage to truck, great
we now know what happens to the heavily modified trucks used in the
Shell Rotella print ads, Bullis drives one. To help you buy a clue, 3
yrs ago I hit a baby deer, about the size of small great dane, he was
running across the road, I was doing 35 mph, it 3am heading SB on US
287 outside Hugo, Colo., clipped him with the left side of the front
bumper. Killed the deer, fucked up the bumper and almost cut the
tire.
> Get to Cheyenne for the night. Get up early. Get fuel.
> Lock self out of truck. Wait an hour for the locksmith.
> Finally get to denver and unload.
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> Just another week on the road.
I'm still trying to figure out how it took you ten hours to drive
from Rapid City to Cheyenne, even taking interstate all the way at 55
mph (WYo is a 75 mph state) you can still be in Denver in ten hours.