I’ve loved having a dash cam while I’m driving around. I’ve captured natural phenomena like big lightning bolts but also car accidents, almost collisions, and a lot more. The unexpected part, though, is that most of what I record is my own goofy self! Here are a few examples before I get to what happened yesterday.
I was out driving around recently and, in my defense, as you’ll see, the sun was in my eyes. That’s the story I’m sticking with, at least. I turned in to a parking lot and I think, to be honest, I was breaking other rules in the process (crossing double yellow, etc) and while I was thinking about those other rules I was probably breaking and feeling guilty about it, I overlooked the curb dividing the incoming and outgoing lanes. My truck, however, didn’t miss it at all. Not only did I hop up one curb and down another, I bounced up 2 curbs and crashed down 2 curbs all in a matter of 15 feet, give or take, because some genius put a sidewalk right through the little curbed barrier. This is not the first time I’ve made this kind of mistake, where there’s a raised curb between lanes and I manage to drive directly over it. Can’t they paint them yellow or black and white lines? Or maybe I’m just not cut out to be a truck driver.
It felt like I had run over a small building. Thankfully, there hasn’t been any collateral damage to the truck at the time of this posting. My pride? Yes, very damaged.
-Out of the Wilderness
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