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A mind is a terrible thing to baste.

2007-07-01

Happy Sunday Morning Boys and Girls.


Friday. Eastbound I-96 at mile marker 100.

A Brinks armored truck sat along the shoulder of the expressway.

Behind it was a Penske rental van.

Behind that was a state police car.

It looked like the guys from the armored truck, in uniform, were transferring bags from the Brinks truck into the rental van with the policeman standing guard.

That's all I saw. I was traveling about 65 miles an hour.

But for the next fifteen or twenty minutes, all kinds of scenarios went through my mind.

Did the Brinks truck simply have engine problems?

Who brought the rental van?

What if the guards were fake?

What if the policeman was fake?

-That sort of thing.

Probably nothing nefarious was going on...

...but I could have come up with 5 movie scripts based on the ten seconds I could clearly see the situation as I drove up to it, passed it and saw it in my rear-view mirror. It was fun to extrapolate...


So... Friday, about 6:30 p.m.

I'd helped my son Ryan pick up a big 52" LCD T.V. from a shipper near Detroit Metro Airport. He'd bought it on Ebay from a reseller, a factory refurbished model, for about half what he'd seen the same model at the big box retailers. Cool.

We put it on top of my jeep and secured it with more bungee cords than necessary. Arriving at his house, he helped me undo all but the last cord, which I unfastened while he propped open his side door so we'd be able to maneuver it into the basement.

The last cord... I unfastened it from the back of the rack and reached up as far forward as I could to relieve the elastic tension almost completely. I let go.

There was still just enough spring left to have the damn thing flip up and over the rack, it's other end still fastened to that side of it, and SNAP!

I cracked my windshield but good.

I haven't felt that stupid in a while.

Damn physics.


Be good to everyone.

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Witqueen (2007-07-01)
snicker...

Witqueen (2007-07-01)
snicker...

Barnabus (2007-07-01)
Hmmm the way things are...I wonder if you could sue the bungee cord maker? People want to sue gun makers because some idiot used one to shoot somebody, A guy sued a ladder making company and won, because he put the ladder on a pile of manure when frozen, but when it thawed, the ladder sand and he fell off and was injured...Stupid Juries!!!!

Hardcore_Pyro (2007-07-01)
Stupid bungee cord.

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