SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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So this afternoon I head down to the local Home Improvement Store. I needed to pick up some faux Bamboo Blinds for the Patio and check out some boards for a project I have in mind.
I stop in the gas station to fill up some reserve tanks I have. Tanks I use for things like the Lawn Mower. I'm also filling the car for the first time in a couple of weeks. I was amazed at the lines but I didn't go away, I had to fill the car, it was running on empty. (I'm not kidding, I poured 16 gallons into a 15 gallon tank.)
Done there I wandered over to the store and could barely get inside. I grabbed the blinds I wanted and some boards. At the checkout counter there were lines with people buying Plywood. What the hell?
AS I was waiting in line I finally heard the news. They have upgraded a Tropical depression to a Tropical Storm and the possible track brings it into Florida early next week. Hmmmmmm.
I haul my purchases out to the car and load up. I climb into the buggy and head for home. Along the way I'm cruising in the left lane when a Mazda Miata decides they just have to occupy my lane, right where my front tire happens to be. I can see her drifting into my lane while gabbling on her phone and hit the horn as I hit the brakes. Her reaction was to crank the wheel to the left, right into my front end.
When we finally stopped her car was pointed in the wrong direction and she was fuming. As I climbed out of my car to check for damage the cop who had been rolling along behind me came trotting up asking if everyone was all right. I just waved him on as I checked out the damage to my front end. I stood there and chuckled before turning to the lady and her car. Man what a wreck it was. The only way it was going anywhere was on the back of a flatbed.
When the cop comes over to me he asks if there is any damage to my car and I point at the front end and tell him she scratched my paint. He looks and starts laughing as he shakes his head. He then tells me she had been cited for an illegal lane change and driving to endanger.
I hopped in my car and headed for home while shaking my head and thanking myself for working on the car. You see I have one of those annoying little S.U.V.'s. A Chevy Tracker. Because I am me I did some mods to it. I have Frog Spotters, (Fog Lights) and I have a Brush Bar. Because they don't make a Brush Bar for my car I took one from a much larger vehicle and modified it to fit my car. It is made of heavy gauge steel bars. Her tiny little car barely scratched the black paint on the bars.
I think the bumper sticker on the back of my car may have insulted her a bit more as I left. I have that lovely little sticker back there that demands "Hang up and Drive"!
Cat
I stop in the gas station to fill up some reserve tanks I have. Tanks I use for things like the Lawn Mower. I'm also filling the car for the first time in a couple of weeks. I was amazed at the lines but I didn't go away, I had to fill the car, it was running on empty. (I'm not kidding, I poured 16 gallons into a 15 gallon tank.)
Done there I wandered over to the store and could barely get inside. I grabbed the blinds I wanted and some boards. At the checkout counter there were lines with people buying Plywood. What the hell?
AS I was waiting in line I finally heard the news. They have upgraded a Tropical depression to a Tropical Storm and the possible track brings it into Florida early next week. Hmmmmmm.
I haul my purchases out to the car and load up. I climb into the buggy and head for home. Along the way I'm cruising in the left lane when a Mazda Miata decides they just have to occupy my lane, right where my front tire happens to be. I can see her drifting into my lane while gabbling on her phone and hit the horn as I hit the brakes. Her reaction was to crank the wheel to the left, right into my front end.
When we finally stopped her car was pointed in the wrong direction and she was fuming. As I climbed out of my car to check for damage the cop who had been rolling along behind me came trotting up asking if everyone was all right. I just waved him on as I checked out the damage to my front end. I stood there and chuckled before turning to the lady and her car. Man what a wreck it was. The only way it was going anywhere was on the back of a flatbed.
When the cop comes over to me he asks if there is any damage to my car and I point at the front end and tell him she scratched my paint. He looks and starts laughing as he shakes his head. He then tells me she had been cited for an illegal lane change and driving to endanger.
I hopped in my car and headed for home while shaking my head and thanking myself for working on the car. You see I have one of those annoying little S.U.V.'s. A Chevy Tracker. Because I am me I did some mods to it. I have Frog Spotters, (Fog Lights) and I have a Brush Bar. Because they don't make a Brush Bar for my car I took one from a much larger vehicle and modified it to fit my car. It is made of heavy gauge steel bars. Her tiny little car barely scratched the black paint on the bars.
I think the bumper sticker on the back of my car may have insulted her a bit more as I left. I have that lovely little sticker back there that demands "Hang up and Drive"!
Cat
