Totally Committed

Okay I was driving through Fort Worth the other night and figured out one thing in life…You must be TOTALLY COMMITTED in the choices you make. Especially if one of those choices is to pull out in front of a Semi Truck who is going 55 mph and you are NOT! There was this group of 3 cars getting on the on ramp and traffic was pretty bad. Imagine Fort Worth on a Friday night at rush hour and you have my world…..Now make your car like 70 feet long! So the first car speeds up and gets in the lane in a hurry and is gone. Great I had slowed down a bit but was surrounded by cars and couldn’t move out of their way which I would normally do of course. So I slow down a bit and put on the jake brakes and the regular break to see what the Saturn was going to do. The stupid car speeds up, great wonderful I don’t care I start to back off…but wait now the driver slows down! We are quickly running out of on ramp room and this car is still trying to merge where there is no merge left and is now headed into my tire….Speed up!! The driver speeds up a little then slows back down. Well by this time (all of this is happening in like 5 seconds of course) they speed up again! I slam on my brakes the dog goes flying into the back of my seat. Hubby’s hand reaches out to the dash board and god only knows what happened to the freight I have in the trailer and I’m actually surprised that the car behind me wasn’t getting a dash full of ICC bumper. I’m cussing and trying to downshift and just thinking to myself….what an idiot!

Moral to the story….if you are going to make the choice to pull out in front of a semi truck. Be totally committed and just go for it. Don’t waste time being wishy washy about it. Do it and be done with it. I am the first one to give someone driving a car the right of way but if I give you a hole and you don’t take it when it’s available you are lucky if I give you a second chance. You will also be lucky that you aren’t seriously hurt. After all my truck takes a lot longer to stop and does a lot more damage than your plastic unibody Saturn that is for sure!

Midnight Ramblings

These last couple of weeks have gone by sooo fast it’s unbelievable. I have cards for Veterans Day that I have yet to mail. They will go out on Monday. We have crisscrossed the country, had our truck in the shop for a broken fifth wheel and are just now getting home to get the rest of our things. When we left we couldn’t fit all our stuff or “comforts” in the rental car so we had to leave some things at home…looking forward to our coffee pot and microwave! We splurged and bought a real fridge ($570) but it is SOOOOO worth it!! Unbelievably worth it!!! We are able to keep meat and salad stuff in it and it’s great to have not just cold water but frozen water. It is similar to what you would see in a camper or something. But it is great for when you are stuck at a shipper or receiver and would be sitting there for 6 hours eating out of the vending machine….I made a chef salad last time that happened. It was twice as good as the one we paid $5.99 for at the Waffle House the day before!!

We are currently in Wyoming visiting our daughter and we are under a load to Utah for Monday so we are going home tomorrow to pack up the rest of our stuff so we are ready to go on Monday. I think I will end up running some errands during the day on Monday while he goes and unloads then he can pick me up when he is done. I am working on a couple posts about some of the stuff we have seen etc but right now they aren’t ready to post yet. I need to get to bed today was very tiring. I got woken up early by hubby because we went through some bad weather between Denver and Wyoming. Wind was blowing pretty bad and had rolled over 3 semi’s in a short distance. So it was time for me to put my clothes back on and get in the front seat as well. If you are going over it’s best if you are awake and in a seat belted in than flying around in the sleeper (naked LOL). It’s getting to be that time of year though. Our choices to get to Utah were I70 (chain law which means it is very bad and no way am I slinging chains in the snow!!) or I80 (high winds, slick roads, blowing snow…did I mention HIGH WINDS!?!?) so we chose I80 and of course to see Pip’s as well! Hubby has been asleep for a few hours I think it’s time to go join him. Update laters!!

Just A Test

Just wanted to try out this blogging with Microsoft Word. Right now we are in Kingman AZ headed to California. We left Missouri yesterday late afternoon. Had hoped to deliver tonight around midnight in California but they wouldn’t take it so that means we have to hang out till the afternoon to unload which will suck because we will loose a day waiting. Need to get home to get the rest of our stuff because we didn’t take it when we took the rental to Seattle to recover a truck for the company right out of orientation. With this it’s nice because I can type the messages while I am sitting in the truck then when we get to the truckstop with the wireless I can connect and upload! Just wanted to test nothing really to say. It’s been a week and I’m already tired of truckstop food LOL