Lucky me

[Yadkin]

This morning I made the 20 minute drive to the county seat to make four short stops. One the way there, a 20 vehicle convoy of oversized loads and construction equipment was snaking it's way in the opposite direction. It had collected an entourage of cars about a mile long during it's trip through two lane mountain roads. Amazingly, I was not one of them.

An hour after returning, the county alert system reported a vehicle on its roof, and my prior route closed completely.

I must be living right.

[Anjdog2003]

Thread of the month

[Swany00]

future lottery winner

[Steve_R]

*its x 2

And:
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[Mike Mercury]

[Vandelay Industries]

Where's *89x2* when you need him?

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

Floriduh?

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

An hour after returning, the county alert system reported a vehicle on its roof, and my prior route closed completely.

He must have hit a maliciously placed rock in a driveway somewhere.

[slewfoot]

I went to Costco at 6am to get gas. About a half hour later leaving Home Depot nearby, I drove back past Costco and the lines were really long!

Phew! Dodged a bullet on that one!

[Big bob]

Sounds like you pathetic and eratic driving skills caused the accident. And as usual you ran off to your hidding spot.

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by slewfoot

I went to Costco at 6am to get gas. About a half hour later leaving Home Depot nearby, I drove back past Costco and the lines were really long!

Phew! Dodged a bullet on that one!

That's big news right there! It deserves its own thread.

[Yadkin] *it's [/Yadkin]

[Bruze]

Yesterday I was coming home from lunch and was on a narrow, hilly country road.

Right at the base of a steep hill was a car and truck in front of me with their 4-ways on, and a tractor in front of them hauling a wagon loaded with logs.

He was going 5 FREAKING MPH. Holy carp, my 72 year-old tractor will go 12. But he was likely in a lower gear to get up the hill.

So finally we got on the flat and he didn't go any faster, but there was an open stretch of road, long enough to pass someone going 5 MPH so I swung out and easily passed all three.

The car that was ahead of me with his flashers on, who I though was part of the train, then decided to follow me. I guess they were scared of the double solid line.

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by slewfoot

I went to Costco at 6am to get gas. About a half hour later leaving Home Depot nearby, I drove back past Costco and the lines were really long!

Phew! Dodged a bullet on that one!

You must be living right.

[Don Rickles]

Unlucky for us, that your not still stuck in the convoy......

[slewfoot]

Where's my buddy with his quick witted anecdotes or as they say in his area, antidotes?

[DJ_Critterus]

Yesterday I had to fill the RAM up with diesel. I wanted to put in $50.00 worth. I let go of the handle and bam...... A PERFECT SQUEEZE. I stopped it at exactly $50.00. Sad part is that was only 12.5 gallons worth of fuel FJB

[Tikiman]

Once, coming home from a long hard day at the grind, I was half a mile from my house and had to turn around because a tour bus got itself jammed on a one-way bridge and they had to get one of those huge wreckers in to try to yank it off. Had to drive 20 miles out of my way to come in from the other side. That bus had no business being on those back roads and certainly should have never tried to cross that bridge.

[LATB]

When I got up to our farm this morning, I drove around the closed gate and in to the property.

Saved me countless seconds and I didn’t have to get out of the truck to open the gate.

How freaking lucky am I?

[Onebadcad]

In Florida, where all the smart people reside, convoys and road construction are only done during evening hours.

This is an ongoing project, more flyovers planned, I-95 and I-595 and the FL Turnpike.
No lane closures during the day, on-budget, on-time.

[Onebadcad]

Also, all downtown construction done at night.
This is for Downtown Fort Lauderdale, more than 50 30+ stories towers going up in the next five years, all construction shuts down at sundown, transporting of beams and materials can be scheduled for the PM.

Broward County builds more in a day than your state builds in a decade.

https://www.fortlauderdale.gov/home/...22247719770000