One of th funniest things I've seen is a station wagon with a mattress & boxspring on top of it with nothing to secure it but four arms hanging out of the windows, even the driver. I said to myself now what is gonna happen when the wind gets underneath the thing and one of the guys says well, i'm not lettin go

 

I was headed west down I-40 one day just in a daze and 3 little ole women pass me headed east in the fast lane in a Ford Escort just talking away. It took a minute to register what I saw!

 

I used to drive for Saturn, the car company. We, driving team, me at the wheel, partner in the sleeper, were driving south through Dayton OH on I-75, when the weirdness started.

Our truck was a cab over, love those things, but visibility is poor. Cruising along around 5:30 pm, south bound on I-75, staying with the flow of traffic in the center lane, running about 58 mph. Feel a little nudge, look DOWN, there is a Chrysler K car stuck to the front of my truck, heading EAST bound. There was a woman at the wheel, with a death grip on the wheel, mashing on the gas. I tapped my brakes, she cut loose and T- Boned a little girl in a 280Z. They both slammed into the jersey barrier. NO ONE WAS HURT! Thank God!

Can't figure out how she got stuck to my bumper, in her boyfriends car, but the cop gave her the ticket. All I could tell the cop was what I stated above. The women flapped her jaws to no end, a real ditz.

Scared the H-ll out of me! But looking back, it was hillarious watching the whole thing transpire. I just thank God that no one was injured.

Mike

 

Hmmmmmmm. Haven't seen much while driving the truck, but have experienced my share of items on the road while riding the bike. Let's seeeeeeeeeee..

Center punched a buzzard on Hwy 90 between San Antonio and Del Rio. Snapped the windshield off the fairing and had buzzard guts from my waist up. They taste as bad as they look. (Yes, I pulled over and puked!)

Met my share of mule deer on the back roads around Ruidoso, New Mexico. Definitely a case of first you say it, then you do it. (Not to mention taking a 50 cent piece out of the seat!)

 

how at 70 mph did you know it was a 36 footer? You stop and pick it up? just messin with ya

 

Not to far from here a highway worker was killed because of some idiot like that. He was off duty, saw a ladder in the roadway (on a HIGH bridge) go out to move it, somebody else was not paying attention, rear ends a car, causes that one to hit another car and that one hit the guy causing him to be thrown over the side of the bridge where he fell about 180 feet into St. Louis Bay.
It happened in Duluth,Mn.
Tom

 

My friend Pat at work bought his first miniature donkey in San antonio. He took the largest dog kennel with him to pick it up. Donkeys dont fit in a dog kennel .Not even the minis. Had to ride in the back seat of his truck. It wasnt house trained. Was a pretty big mess by the time he got home.

 

This past July, I'm heading W on 84 to Carlisle, PA. It was before sunrise when over the CB I hear "Watch out for the hotdog wagon in the middle lane". Not exactly sure what this meant, I get out of the middle lane just in case. About 10 seconds later, there it is. Some guy hauling one of those hotdog wagons you see at fairs, with most of it's weight on the pin, no lights on the trailer, going ~ 40. Very hard to see at that hour, then once you spot it, especially if you're going 70 like most of us were, there's a couple of seconds you're saying to yourself "What IS that?" Then you realize how much slower he's going than you.

I hope he made it safely to whereever he was going. I wouldn't have "relished" plowing into that thing. (Hey, c'mon. You knew that was coming) I guess it could have been worse. He could have been out there hotdogging. Boy, I'm on a roll.

 

Oooooohhhhhh Admin. isn't there a 2 pun limit on posts? Just checking. Rick

 

Probably shouldent post this but here goes, Years ago when I lived down south (L.A.) me and a buddy were headin north on the 101 in my van. along in this old belvedere comes this nice lookin gal. She looks over at us with this big smile. Beautiful blond in a mini skirt and scantly clad well say. Well being the young deprived(you know) guys we were we kinda motion for her to pull over so we can talk or get her phone number, Yeah I know, anyhow she exposes her self a bunch well say and finally reaches down a pulls up a playboy or something like that and opens it to the centerfold. By George its her in all her glory. Guess she could tell we were gittin a little bothered by this so she just gave a big smile and nailed it. never saw her again. Ill never forget that day.

 

Remembering another good one, 101 north bound again, guy in a 70ies delta 88 flyin down the freeway. The right side axle retainer c clip musta came undone. we watched as his right tire and axle slowly slid out the housing and pass him doin around 80 mph. When the diff finally hit the ground and he saw the axle goin by the look on his face was priceless.

 

I was going to work one morning on I-80 from Elko, NV to Carlin, NV. It was winter time and we had just gotten dumped on big-time. My work truck was an F-350 crew cab long bed 4X4 5 speed manual. Very long wheelbase. I was cruising about 30 MPH in 4WD because of the snow and ice. Everyone else seemed to be doing about the same. My usual hour commute was going to take twice as long, so me and the guys riding with me settled in to enjoy the ride. Just before we got to a curve that disappeared around a hill and just before a tunnel, this little white car came HAULIN past everyone like we were standing still and dissapeared around the curve. A minute later we caught up with her. Yep, you guessed it......upside down in the median. We got stopped and out of the way to see if she was all right. As she crawled out of the car we heard her say..."I don't know how that happened...I only had the cruise control set on 50!"

 

In the 80's I was driving east on 20 between the 10 split and Pecos. That is all down hill slightly and just easy running. I don't know much about Texas birds, but there are large white ones that fly at night. This was 2 ro 3 in the morning. The bird hit my windshield scared the heck out of me. A few miles down the road the truck slowed down, a cabover Astro. It kept going slower and slower, finally I pulled off on the sholder. Did a quick look around the truck saw nothing. It would idle but not run for crap. It was cold and late, went to sleep, figured I was broke down.

In the morning I was jacking the cab when I looked up and saw the bird firmly stuck in the air intake scoop. Blood running down the stack. Pried it out with the cheater bar, truck ran fine. Getting blood off a white truck, more difficult.

 

And I have to add this one. I have been laughed at, asked what I was on, but it is true. Running in the same area, west of Pecos on 20, all of a sudden the freeway is paved with hundreds of large, 3 or 4 inches diameter, spiders. They are migrating and headed south. Made a mess of the bottom of the truck, sorta white gooey stuff on the flaps and whatnot.

People from that area are aware of the migration, it is true.

 

Tarantula migration. Try hitting a spot like that on a motorcycle! And I HATE spiders!!