To the driver of the white Acura at Trade Zone and Montague today

[gridlore]

I hope you're a heart surgeon. Really, I really, sincerely, hope you are a heart surgeon and were racing to perform life-saving surgery on little Timmy. Because nothing else excuses you blowing through the red light controlling the turn from Trade Zone onto Montague right in front of my 8.5 ton truck. As I told a manager later, it was both feet on the brake, both hands on the horn. I came within inches of slamming into your car. Hard that happened, I would have killed you. Seriously. You would have rolled several times. As it was, I had to fight to keep my 34' long truck from fishtailing into the other (law-abiding) cars and stop myself from flipping.

So I really hope you're a heart surgeon, because otherwise you deserve slow death.

What really made this sucky is I was loaded at the time. A watermelon box containing 4,714 3"x6"x1/4" metal plates slide forward and off its pallet, tearing the bottom of the box open in the process. Which meant that I and three other coworkers got to shovel nearly one ton of crap into a new box.

For the record, red means STOP!!!

Comments

[netquiddler.livejournal.com]

Um, Doug, so that I may be picturing this right... "watermelon box" = cardboardish box with an open top, similar to what they keep watermelons in in the supermarket?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Very useful for holding large quantities of small/moderate metal plates, since they aren't likely to bounce much when I hit a bump or pothole.

[netquiddler.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I've found that having worked in the business, they're also prone to ripping at the most inopportune moments.

must be the moon.....

[redc1c4.livejournal.com]

or maybe the water.

i had not one but two asshats do similar things to me today when i was out in the red car.

not the same as yur truck, but since i was noticeably bigger than both of them, you have to wonder WTF were they thinking. i feel yo' pain.

/not that either one was likely capable of thought. %-)

PS:

[redc1c4.livejournal.com]

next time just hit the bastard.... lots of papaerw*rk, but consider it your part of cleaning up the gene pool.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

You stopped. You managed to stop. [I goggle at the concept of you fighting inertia and wrestling it FTW. Wow.] Well done sir. Well done.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

It's what I get paid to do. Even in a smaller commericial truck like mine, you have to be on your game constantly or bad things happen.

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who used to drive a panel truck, and he mentioned similar things on an almost-daily basis. I always wondered if it was fed by the idiots being in personal vehicles vs the other "work" type vehicles. An extension of the whole Customer/Right thing. ./shrug

Good job on not splatting anyone. I hope that next time there is a bored cop there to watch who is sympathetic to your pain, as well.