Before I75 went across FLA from Fort Myers to Fort Lauderdale, the road was called Alligator Alley and was only two lanes. Really dangerous road with all of the back and forth heavy traffic. I made the trip across as Alligator Alley was being expanded into an Interstate and as a result two over passes had be made. My car broke down, VERY LONG story, on Friday the 13th. <dun Dun DUN> :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: Twas not fun at all since it was July but we managed to get to one of the overpasses so at least we were out of the sun. :thumbsup: But this was still south Florida, in the summer, and on high ground surrounded by swamps.
It took four hours to get a AAA tow. Another long story I will leave alone.
While we waited for a tow, my wife stayed near the car, while I went up and sat up under the over pass. This put me up out of easy sight of people on the road but was sorta cooler because of the concrete and you sorta caught a breeze but not real comfortable sitting on the angled concrete.
I used to travel frequently across Alligator Alley and in all of those trips, I never saw a tractor trailer pulled off the side of the road. Never. Or cars. The trips I was taking back there were for work and we would have stopped to help if we had seen cars broken down. Alligator Alley was not a place to break down.
While waiting for the tow, not ONE but TWO semis stopped near us on the road. One was east bound and the other was west bound. We were ease bound and the semi on our side of the road stopped a couple hundred feet away from us. The west bound truck sorta got near the over pass but he was still out in the sun. Neither of the drivers left the cab to off help. They stayed in the trucks. I am sure when they first saw our broken down car they only saw the wife and not me. Once they stopped, especially the east bound truck, I moved so they could see me. Both trucks stayed for hours.
So two trucks sat in the hot FLA summer sun for hours, during prime drive time, watching us. In a business where time really is money, they just sat there... As the song says, things that make you go hmmmmmm....
I firmly believe that if my wife had been alone she would have been kidnapped, raped and murdered. Truck drivers have the perfect cover to grab someone, drive long distances and easily make someone disappear. Many drivers live in rural areas which provides even more cover if they are serial killers.
Bodies get found around our place from time to time. A 10-12 year old boy was found a couple of decades ago and the body has never been IDed. My FIL retired from DOT and on one project some workers found a dead body that was nothing but bones. Some of the workers did not want to report the body because they did not want to get "involved."
My FIL did report the body. You have to wonder if the idiots had found other bodies and never reported them because the did not want to get "involved."
Later,
Dan
