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[paulfun9]

How many of us are guilty of working/driving all day, being dog tired and only have 10 miles more to make it home......
We know we should pull over but we continue anyways......

I couldn稚 even begin to count how many times I have pulled off and took a nap. I usually will push for a few miles but in honesty have actually pulled over with less than 10 miles to go.

 

[check]

I couldn稚 even begin to count how many times I have pulled off and took a nap. I usually will push for a few miles but in honesty have actually pulled over with less than 10 miles to go.

And it works so well! 5 minutes is all it takes, but SWMBO usually lets me go about 15 before waking me up. Amazing how such a short nap can have such a dramatic effect.

 

[Jstpssng]

And it works so well! 5 minutes is all it takes, but SWMBO usually lets me go about 15 before waking me up. Amazing how such a short nap can have such a dramatic effect.

I've spent many hours pulled over napping in the truck. A couple of times I most likely waited too long, as when I woke up I couldn't remember where I was. One time I woke up to the sound of an air horn blaring hard; it scared the crap out of me as I thought I had somehow fallen asleep in the road. Then realized that I had taken a nap after lunch on the end of a dead end road, and the truck was on the highway 1/4 mile away.

 

[Sysop]

And I bet if you happen to hit him, it's your fault..........Mike

He keeps a SMV sign on the back of the trailer, so yea.

 

[Sysop]

First of all, watch out with that old man crack. I resemble that remark.
second, those roads look just like some NY roads. Like Doofy said, long, narrow and winding, drop off on the side with no guard rails, holes patched.
At least he doesn't have much tongue weight with the spare bike at the back. No helmet either.
Now that the weather is breaking maybe I should start riding mine. But mine 's got a motor.

I resemble that remark as well. Takes one to know one; is what I's told.

That road goes from up near Lake Erie down to near the Gulf of Mexico. It's a nice stretch of travel.

 

[MossRoad]

A ladder can kill someone or lead to a fatal accident as much as an insecure piece of equipment....

Back in the mid 80's my best friend hopped on his motorcycle to come up here to South Bend from IU in Bloomington, IN. The last thing he remembered was turning out of the alley behind his house onto a main street. Woke up in the hospital. Seems an extension ladder came off the rack on the top of a pickup truck. The front wasn't secured, but the back was. So it swung out into oncoming traffic and hit him square in the face! He had a full-face helmet on, but didn't have the chin strap fastened or the face shield down. Cops said that probably kept his head from getting popped off, as the ladder went square into the open face shield area and pulled the helmet off of his head. Had he had the face shield down, it might have bounced over his head. He got knocked out, had a concussion, and a broken arm. Lucky he's not dead.

 

[cqaigy2]

Back in the mid 80's my best friend hopped on his motorcycle to come up here to South Bend from IU in Bloomington, IN. The last thing he remembered was turning out of the alley behind his house onto a main street. Woke up in the hospital. Seems an extension ladder came off the rack on the top of a pickup truck. The front wasn't secured, but the back was. So it swung out into oncoming traffic and hit him square in the face! He had a full-face helmet on, but didn't have the chin strap fastened or the face shield down. Cops said that probably kept his head from getting popped off, as the ladder went square into the open face shield area and pulled the helmet off of his head. Had he had the face shield down, it might have bounced over his head. He got knocked out, had a concussion, and a broken arm. Lucky he's not dead.

That reminded me of a local Seattle area celebrity that was killed while jogging across the Ballard Bridge by a ladder that had been on a masonry truck. It struck her in the head and she died a day later, leaving two children and a husband.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Those certainly qualify as "bet they never saw that coming" type of accidents. Driving a few hundred miles today, I kept wondering if some errant wheel was going to come over a median, with my name on it. Is such thinking, protective, by being more vigilant, or will it just drive you crazy?

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Both, if you let it get to you. I try to remain vigilant, and people can't believe that I don't know about things which I drive past every day; I'm at least trying to pay attention to the road. Yet if you let it rule you, it becomes like any other obsession.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have had too much death around me as of late. I leave the farm gate, and wonder if i will return.

 

[lilranch2001]

Death is the final result of life......

 

[Industrial Toys]

Yeah, it's the finality of "THIS" particular life that troubles me. Attachments and unfinished projects left behind.

 

[lilranch2001]

I am a firm believer of, when it is your time, it is your time

 

[Industrial Toys]

But, if you do stupid/dangerous stuff, your "time" will probably come sooner.

 

[lilranch2001]

Honestly, I am not sure that has been proven.

I see some real idiots with seemingly 1000 lives

 

[ultrarunner]

The father of my best friend growing up was a trauma surgeon... he had to approve of any vehicle his son rode in and often would simply hand over the keys to his car saying he would sleep better knowing we were better protected...

Let's just say he was not a fan of my Pinto and even less on anything Japanese from the 1960's...

So, we often took his 1970 Eldorado… to away games and even on trips...

 

[California]

In keeping with the dark turn this thread has taken -

Here's a bumper sticker I saw on an ancient and beat up pickup truck in Challenge, a tiny backwoods community in NorCal where logging has moved on, and I expect half the few guys still living there are on disability after losing too many parts in logging accidents:

Life is Hard. Then You Die.

 

[lilranch2001]

Very similar to the old phrase "Lifes a Beech, and then you die"

But the word is not really beech.......

 

[greggyy]

Honestly, I am not sure that has been proven.

I see some real idiots with seemingly 1000 lives

Yeah, the sillier ones that do stupid things with no clue get away with it most times it seems, get away with anything really....

 

[greggyy]

Very similar to the old phrase "Lifes a Beech, and then you die"

But the word is not really beech.......

For Cali guys the word is Beach no ?