Dodging the unexpected…
My son is in Boy Scout Day Camp this week. Well, it’s also been raining all week. We got our normal early afternoon ‘Rescue your kid from the rain’ call today so I headed out to Emma Long Park to retrieve him. I was headed down Loop360 towards 2222. It was raining so I’m expecting the unexpected from all the idiots on the road. What I wasn’t expecting was the terrain to fight back. As I was passing through one of the cuts where the road passes through a hill a small landslide started. Rocks the size of shoeboxes and bigger fell across the road and right into my path. I tried to stop but only managed to put my wife’s Mustang into a sideways slide, or as my wife says, ‘I got all slideways’. I don’t know how but I managed to pass over/through the moving landscape without hitting any of the suspension and bodywork eating rocks. I got it straightened out and kept on going while everyone behind me stopped. Now there was a good reason to be driving the Defender in town and I was in the ‘Stang. Figures.
It must have looked like a damn good bit of driving to the person behind me. Don’t tell them I was just along for the ride.
: Free Fallin’ from the album “Playback Boxed Set: Disc 3” by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Good pick there iTunes.