So how DID the truck get in the creek?

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Hi folks. The joys of owning old junker trucks are never ending. I've had this S-10 for 6 years now. Not much works on it except the bare basics. It's been worth every bit of the $400.00 bucks I paid for it.

I got out this morning and threw a bunch of stuff in the back to haul out to the barn. Figured I should haul a couple buckets of water out to the critters instead of carrying it. Smart boy. So I pull the truck up along the house and leave it running to warm up while I fill the buckets up.

Did I mention it doesn't have an emergency Brake?

Yep, I heard this odd "Thump". There it was nosed in the creek that runs behind the house. It had rolled about 35', so it had enough momentum to make it over the bank and down. This is only a little creek and thank goodness it only has a little water in it right now. It did look pretty funny. I wish I'd of gotten a picture.

Well, I just couldn't get mad about it. All I could do was laugh. Normally, this sort of thing would've set me off but good. Maybe it's because it's Spring.

I got the tractor out and pulled it out w/o any difficulty. Didn't even get wet. Now here was the tricky part. I had to rake up the area there to clean up the marks. Then I cut the grass back there to hide the rest of it. The wife isn't home see. If it rains before she makes it home tomorrow- she may never get a chance to laugh at her fool husband!

Have missed you folks while my computers been down.

-- John in S. IN (jdoofus@hotmail.com), May 03, 2002

Answers

Hey John! Quick--put the truck back in the crik. I'll hurry over and take pictures of it settin in the crik. We won't tell Sindy-- just show her pictures of it! We wouldn't want anybody to blackmail you with lies! LOL.

Glad you got it out ok and nobody was hurt! God Bless Bro! old hoot. Matt. 24:44

-- old hoot gibson (hoot@pcinetwork.com), May 03, 2002.


I had a F150 that "climbed" a tree once. Actually, a friend backed it off a moutainside ledge road and the tree broke the fall

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 03, 2002.

I'll bet my truck was easier to get out of the creek than yours was to get out of the tree! Now that would be worth hearing about.

We won't tell Sindy - Right Hoot?

-- John (jdoofus@hotmail.com), May 03, 2002.


:>)........I can see it. Glad you are back......missed you.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), May 03, 2002.

John! Lets see--keepin quiet ---do ya'll know how to build those "hoot donuts"? We mite be able to work out a solution!! Old hoot. Matt.24:44

-- old hoot gibson (hoot@pcinetwork.com), May 03, 2002.


snickersnickersnicker. I was wonderiong you were, but I never would have guessed you were up a creek so close to home!

-- Doreen (bisquit@here.com), May 03, 2002.

I knew this guy who used to chuck his tire with a chainsaw because his old truck didn't have an emergency brake. It didn't have enough compression left either-to hold it on a grade. Than one day he forgot and had to throw the chainsaw in the creek !

I saw him just this morning. Don't you just hate mirrors ?

-- Joel Rosen (JoelnBecky@webtv.net), May 03, 2002.


Joel,

Thats a good one, I have to remember that.

It took a crane truck and a tree service bucket truck to ground the old ford.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 04, 2002.


Well, it's nice to know who your friends are! I don't have an email addy of jdoofus for nuthin'. Hope everyones doing well. gotta go get some work done.

-- John (jdoofus@hotmail.com), May 04, 2002.

John! Haven't heard from ya'll in a spell. Hope everything is ok with ya'll. Take care bro! old hoot. Matt.24:44

-- old hoot (oldhoot@shawneelink.net), April 15, 2003.


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