Sparky-Watts
Banned
Don't know why. Tuesday night I went to a meeting with my boss and the homeowners association of one of the properties I manage. After the meeting, we were eating dinner and one of the other managers called and said his truck had broken down. We called the mechanic and arranged for him to meet me at the shop early the next morning to go out and pick up the truck. We were about a mile away from where the truck had broken down, driving down a dirt road when we blew a tire. We skidded off the road and slammed a culvert at about 60mph, went airborne for about 100 feet, flipped several times and landed upside down in a creek. Scotty, the mechanic, wasn't wearing a seatbelt but I was. He ended up next to the back window under water and unconscious. I couldn't get my seatbelt undone because of the weight of my body against the release. Finally got it undone, dropped on my head, and managed to pull Scotty out of the truck and to the bank of the creek. By then he'd woken up somewhat, but was still pretty confused. I shook all the water out of my cell phone and called 911 (couldn't believe it even worked!!) and had a heckuva time telling them where we were. Scotty refused to go to the hospital, despite being unconscious for about 5 minutes under water. I don't know how he kept from drowning! I refused also, because I just really didn't hurt anywhere except from dropping myself on my head when I undid the seat belt. Here's a couple of pics of the truck:
Pretty well messed up the toe-in, didn't it? After filling out all the accident reports, I went ahead and worked yesterday. Just had to change my clothes (working in mud all day, I've learned to keep an extra change of clothes handy). Scotty took the day off to rest up. I still haven't told Sunshine, because I don't want her to get hysterical. She's got enough to worry about right now with some other issues. I just told her I had to wallow in the mud to fix some irrigation lines to explain away the extra set of muddy clothes. I might tell her much later on, but don't know yet.
Pretty well messed up the toe-in, didn't it? After filling out all the accident reports, I went ahead and worked yesterday. Just had to change my clothes (working in mud all day, I've learned to keep an extra change of clothes handy). Scotty took the day off to rest up. I still haven't told Sunshine, because I don't want her to get hysterical. She's got enough to worry about right now with some other issues. I just told her I had to wallow in the mud to fix some irrigation lines to explain away the extra set of muddy clothes. I might tell her much later on, but don't know yet.
