Our Missouri grandson, Louis, woks on an itinerant crew, maintaining cell towers. They work all over a four-or-five state area, and he let us know that he would be passing through town. In a crew cab dually, pulling a 32-foot gooseneck.
We live on a parish (county) road off of a major state highway. Our road feeds several subdivisions, so while it's bot really busy, the traffic is regular. When Louis got here, his crew tried to back that trailer into the driveway in front of our ship, and promptly pu the truck into a ditch, high-centered, stuck. Completely blocking the road.
I heard them stick it and walked outside to survey the problem. Yep, it was stuck. That truck wasn't going anywhere without help, and they had managed to block my truck in so that I couldn't get out to help them. But, I was not worried. We live in redneck-central, and I knw that someone would be along shortly.
Sure enough, inside of five minutes a guy pulled u in a one-ton crew truck, asking if we needed help. He needed to get past us, and we needed to get the truck out o the ditch, and in just a minute, he had turned his truck around and we had it rigged to pull. Easy-peasy. In less time than it takes to type this sentence, we had the problem solved, the truck out of the ditch, the trailer out o the travel lane, and we were drinking beer in the shop.
I didn't even get the name of the fellow who pulled it out. But, I'd do the same for him, ad have many times for other folks. Rednecks live for stuff like this.
Thank Heaven for rednecks, they seek no credit, just pay it forward when you have the opportunity. Don't call them 'backwards' either - rudeness will probably get you consequences. And if you are so smart - how did you find yourself in your predicament in the 1st place ?
ReplyDeleteYep, true dat! Good ol' boys get PLENTY of mileage out of actually getting to USE that big truck! :-) Bet he'll be crowing about that for a month!
ReplyDeleteAll good! Honorable folks keep honesty alive and well in our Nation!!
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