Did the bottle not break on the bow of that poor thing or what?
I remember when you first joined and your truck was either new or nearly new it seemed like it spent more time in the bodyshop than it did on the road do to multiple freaky circumstances.
Congrats on your book though.
I think it might have been possessed or something.
Of course, I did have a serious bout with stupidity just about every time I got near the poor thing. Between that and freaky circumstances...
And yes, I did get the poor truck new. Had 112 miles on the odometer when the keys and payment book were handed over to me. IIRC, the first year I had it went fine, then it started downhill. A few oddball brake malfunctions, a few driver error malfunctions and a freak hailstorm beat it up a good bit. I was doing fine for awhile though, no mishaps until a freak thunderstorm rolled through one summer day, one second I'm cruising with the windows down the next minute there is water ponding on the road. I started catching hail and was looking for a place to hide the truck under a canopy or bridge but everyone else had the same idea. So against my better judgment, I decided to continue on sloshing through the over 6" of water on the road and watching my battery gauge and light flickering. Truck did well until I went to stop.... well, a new mini-cooper stopped me anyway. No frame damage and no airbag deployment.
I had just got it fixed when I committed another user-error malfunction. The family dog of 13+ years had a stroke that left him mostly paralized and we had to put him down. I got to go with mom when they put him down and got to bury him when we got back. I was running late for a college class and decided to hurry up. I was doing fine till I hit a patch of black ice doing about 75 mph. Almost had control and then went through a couple yards, took out about 20' of split rail fence, three mailboxes and finally stopped when I took a pine tree to the grill. The airbags went off about 25 seconds AFTER the truck was completely stopped. I didn't make it to class.
It was two full years after that before I spent more time behind the wheel of a vehicle than I absolutely had to. Still have had some strange circumstances but so far I've only popped a bead on a tire and blasted a deer doing 50 mph.
Thanks for the congrats on the book. I've been working on getting some other stuff finished up so I can publish it too. I was trying to get some photos scanned in for the one this morning but my scanner decided it was on strike.