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BrianR · 08-25-2006, 11:28 PM

All I can rant about is stupid drivers. I have never waited a table in my life and I refuse to start. I understand about their frustrations though and rarely do anything to piss them off and tend to tip above 20% unless the waitperson is REALLY bad. For excellent service 50% is not unheard of.

Tonight, I nearly killed about a hundred motorists coming down I70 into Denver.

Not that *I* did anything wrong, but my brakes were just barely hanging on, it was too dangerous to try to stress them enough to stop, and all the while I'm trying to cool them enough to slow me down enough to keep my tach out of the redline. And here we have Joe Motorist, tailgating me through a cloud of brake smoke. If that wasn't enough of a warning of a truck about to run away, he passes me (no signal of course), then rides along my drive wheels (a HUGE blind spot), finally gets up the speed to finish passing, CUTS ME OFF!!!!! (again, no signal) and as soon as he's safely ten feet away from my bumper, HITS HIS BRAKES!!!!!!!!! Then he looks confused as to why I am hanging onto my air horn and flashing my lights and screaming at the top of my lungs to get out of there before he dies a horrible crunching death and is sent home in a Baggie!

Repeat as needed to age the trucker to Methuselah class.

I pulled into a truck stop a few miles from the foot of the last mountain with my brakes still smoking, manage to park in such a way as not to need to set the brakes (for fear of welding them to the drums, yes they DO get that hot) and go in to sit down, do deep breathing exercises until I calm down again and commiserate with the other drivers who can feel my pain. I was not the only driver with overheated brake linings there, which is about the normal state of things in this area. The winner of the hard luck stories was a driver bringing a D11 (a HUGE earth moving machine weighing over 200,000 lbs) up and over at ten mph, with escort.

I could go on and on about the dangerous things some motorists do around trucks but you'd all get bored.

Off to sleep!

Brian

08-25-2006, 11:28 PM	#10
BrianR Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,338	All I can rant about is stupid drivers. I have never waited a table in my life and I refuse to start. I understand about their frustrations though and rarely do anything to piss them off and tend to tip above 20% unless the waitperson is REALLY bad. For excellent service 50% is not unheard of. Tonight, I nearly killed about a hundred motorists coming down I70 into Denver. Not that I did anything wrong, but my brakes were just barely hanging on, it was too dangerous to try to stress them enough to stop, and all the while I'm trying to cool them enough to slow me down enough to keep my tach out of the redline. And here we have Joe Motorist, tailgating me through a cloud of brake smoke. If that wasn't enough of a warning of a truck about to run away, he passes me (no signal of course), then rides along my drive wheels (a HUGE blind spot), finally gets up the speed to finish passing, CUTS ME OFF!!!!! (again, no signal) and as soon as he's safely ten feet away from my bumper, HITS HIS BRAKES!!!!!!!!! Then he looks confused as to why I am hanging onto my air horn and flashing my lights and screaming at the top of my lungs to get out of there before he dies a horrible crunching death and is sent home in a Baggie! Repeat as needed to age the trucker to Methuselah class. I pulled into a truck stop a few miles from the foot of the last mountain with my brakes still smoking, manage to park in such a way as not to need to set the brakes (for fear of welding them to the drums, yes they DO get that hot) and go in to sit down, do deep breathing exercises until I calm down again and commiserate with the other drivers who can feel my pain. I was not the only driver with overheated brake linings there, which is about the normal state of things in this area. The winner of the hard luck stories was a driver bringing a D11 (a HUGE earth moving machine weighing over 200,000 lbs) up and over at ten mph, with escort. I could go on and on about the dangerous things some motorists do around trucks but you'd all get bored. Off to sleep! Brian __________________ Never be afraid to tell the world who you are. -- Anonymous