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flu's blog: "world tour"

created on 10/02/2011  |  http://fubar.com/world-tour/b343854

tough day at the office

i was in iowa the other day. my dispatcher had been telling me he was gonna try to send me on a load taking me south to get out of the 'artic circle' or w/e the newsman is calling it. so when i opened the email and found a load to florida, with a drop in georgia, i smiled. good lookin' out bro! a couple hours later, i was in a truckstop, as i walked past a television display and the newschannel was on the tv. i had to do a double take and then walk back to believe my eyes. snow? SNOW?? in georgia? GEORGIA??? LMFAOOOO those poor bastards. they have no idea wut to do with snow. haha!!

so yesterday, my dispatcher calls me and says 'dude. u be fucking CAREFUL when u get to georgia!' i assured him that i can handle myself, lol'ing @ him.

'no. dude. u don't understand. i'm watching the news. there's a thousand cars parked on the side of the interstate. folks up'n got the fuck out and walked away from their cars!'

'hahhaha.. i love it. don't worry. i'll be fine. u know i can drive in the snow!'

'yeah well.. srsly. be fucking careful'

/eyeroll 'yeah yeah.. i got this'

so today.. as i neared atlanta.. traffic came to a sudden crawl. omg here it is, the next day, and shit is still all fuckered up. lol. poor bastards. i can't wait to see all these cars beside the road!

well..

the reason the traffic was crawling was because of a wreck, and more directly because of all the folks that had to slow down to just look at the other side of the highway. i didn't know this. all i could see was the miles of nearly stand-still traffic in front of me. i crept along for a quite while before i could finally see ahead that traffic was totally free after a certain point. a minute later i could see why. there was the accident. wreckers. flashing lights. workers.

as i got closer, i could see that a big rig had wrecked. all i could see was the trailer on it's side. they had cut open the top of it to go in with forklifts to remove the cargo so that they could then work with wreckage itself. i couldn't see the truck that had pulled the trailer tho. i assumed it had been towed off already.

wrong.

a minute later as i went under the overpass that the trailer was resting in front of, on it's side.. the truck came into view on the other side of the overpass.

sorta.

wut actually came into view was wut was left of the truck. the truck and trailer were completely separated. a feat that i can assure you, is highly engineered against ever happening. the remnants of the truck were at the base of the giant pillars in the median of the interstate, that hold up the overpass i was rolling under. it was a very sobering scene. one that turned my stomach. as hard as i tried, i could imagine no way a human could have lived thru that sort of carnage. i imagined the truck and trailer sliding sideways on the ice, as the nose went into the median with the overpass pillars rapidly approaching, when probably, the whole thing turned over on it's side. the top of the sleeper impacting the concrete pillars, stopping instantly the truck. so suddenly did the truck stop at the pillars, that the trailer was ripped apart from it's coupling and continued to slide under the overpass and come to rest on the other side of it, whipped to the side of the road and out of the path of travel.

these trucks aren't built like the cars that y'all drive. no intensive crash testing. no crumple zones. not that it would do much good. with 48,000+ lbs of cargo behind you on the trailer, there isn't much chance of surviving many wrecks. if u run into a brick wall, the load behind you would most likely crush you no matter how well engineered that cab that ur riding in was designed.

so here sits a completely mangled and exploded truck cab. with no possible way the driver could have survived.

it was then that the strangest thing happened.

i cried.

please never tell anyone. cuz i'll deny it.

gobble gobble

so as you all know, i went to sleep last nite intending to turn up my radio, try to keep my mind off stuff and drive all day today. but. fate, it appears, would intercede. 'bout an hour ago, i started to hear a funny sound. even above the ear splitting music that was punishing my eardrums. i reached to turn down the music and my heart sank. i knew wut it meant in an instant. someone would soon be taking my money to fix it. i prayed to st. christopher to let this be something i could afford to fix today that i may be able to continue my journey. but. my prayers fell on deaf ears. maybe. maybe there's a reason i can't see why i'm stuck here. waiting till tomorrow for some place to open up that has the part i need. maybe by being stopped here today, i'm avoiding a life threatening situation further up the road that will have passed by tomorrow evening. maybe i'm suppose to meet someone here today that i needed to meet. who knows. on my way here today, i was feeling a bit down despite the sun that was shining and the road that i had mostly to myself. then i saw a man standing at the bottom of the off ramp as i drove past in my warm cab with my radio blarring. he was holding a sign. i couldn't see wut it said but i imagine it said something like 'cold, hungry, anything will help. god bless'. and i felt less miserable for a moment. i figured if he chose to come to work today, there's no reason i should be miserable about my decision to do the same. then the radio guy, between songs was yammering on about sum holiday crap, when i heard him ask.. 'wut r u thankful for today?' so i got to thinking about it. while i'm here alone and the only contact i've had today with folks i love was quite hurtful, (due to my own poor judgement and lack of good morals, so don't go feeling sorry for me) and i'm truthfully homeless, and recently broken up from a really wonderful girl, and broke, and well, i could go on.. BUT it could be worse. i could have slept under an overpass last nite. i didn't. i could have gone to bed hungry last nite. i didn't. i could be locked up in jail right now. i'm not. yet. but i think the thing i'm most thankful for are the people i've had the good fortune throughout my life to have met and learned from. every woman i've ever fallen in love with, i've always learned so much from. my closest friends the same way. sometimes strangers. even my family. my grandpa said to me one time while we were working on an old tractor 'nuts and bolts are like women. when they squeak, they're tight!' he was a funny dude in his own sort of way. my other grandpa told me once, on speaking of grandma: 'wutever mama wants, mama gets.' he was married to and loved one woman his whole life. my uncle said to me one day when i was maybe 12 or 13 while we were bumping along in his log truck 'did u know that girls play with themselves just as much as u do?' i wish i had thanked him for telling me that at some point. it opened up a whole world to me. my brother. growing up, he really pissed me off. anything i could do, he could. no big deal, right? well he was two yrs younger than me. so anything i would accomplish in life, he would steal my thunder by accomplishing the very same thing only he did it when he was two yrs younger than i did. when i got older, i learned a valuable lesson from that experience. he said to himself 'anything he can do, i can do'. and i've adopted that mindset into my own life. very empowering stuff. i miss those guys. but i'm sure thankful to have met them all. and i'm thankful that i woke up this morning. i would hate to have missed this wonderful day.

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