My little helper...

[TGreschuk]

So I'm driving home in my wife's minivan (don't ask) and as I turn the corner onto my street I see some nice old lady getting oxygen. In her yard is a broken fence and what looks like the bottom of a snowmobile trailer, facing out to the street. The trailer is jammed tongue first into the ground and the axle is 5 feet in the air. "Jeez", i think "some poor bugger has his work cut out for him fixing up that mess". 30 seconds later, I pull into my driveway and see my truck parked there... . then it hits me... where is the snowmobile trailer that I borrowed last week to transport my motorcycle to the dealership? (don't ask about that either) Uh oh... The gears start spinning... before I even get out of the van, my neighbor strolls over with a funny smirk on his face... . Apparently, my 5 year old son (God love him) thought he would "help" mommy and daddy out by hooking up ONE of the safety chains from the trailer that daddy BORROWED to the trailer hitch. Unfortunately, he neglected to mention this to his mommy who, some time later loaded the family into my truck promptly started it and burned out of the driveway... . with a BORROWED trailer hanging on for dear life via one rinky dinky safety chain. I might have hoped that my lovely bride would have noticed either the gasps of every dang neighbor on the street or the sparks/sounds coming from dragging a 600 pound trailer zig zagging across 2 lanes behind my truck. Apparently not... She did manage to travel the 200 yards down the street without incident until she hit the first intersection and decided to yank the wheel to the left and put my truck into a 6 wheel drift. At this time the safety chain committed suicide and the trailer took off straight across 2 lanes, went right through a fence and impaled itself in the ground for all to see... Stunned, I went into the house to kiss my children hello and to kiss my wife goodbye (kidding... a little) and my wife was remarkably calm. She even remarked that "it was an old trailer anyway" (sigh) I grabbed my chain and the 5 year old and set out to go and retrieve the trailer. By the time I got back there a little crowd had assembled and the poor lady planting the pansies was finished with the paramedics. Not wanting this to be the social event of the summer, I quickly hooked up my chain to the axle and set out to pull this bugger out of the ground. The first pull produced nothing. The second pull produced all the excitement. I ripped the dang axle clear off the bed. To make matters worse, the guy who I borrowed the trailer from pulled up and nearly choked on the sandwich that he was stuffing his face with when he saw that it was his trailer jammed 3 feet into the ground with the axle 6 feet away still attached to my chain. I had to go home get a chisel and chisel a hole into the bed so that I could attach a chain to it so that i could pull this thing out. While chiseling furiously, I missed the chisel with my ball pien hammer and squashed my thumb (i'm sure this nail is coming off) and to make matters worse I lost my #@$@# hammer in the grass. In closing, i now am the proud owner of a flat bed snowmobile trailer, one which comes with a freshly chiseled hole in the bed, 2 pints of my blood on it and an axle that ain't never going back on. All this and the dealer that I took my motorcycle too can't find anything wrong with it... . And how was your day?

 

[DGFoster]

OMG,look at the bright side,at least no one got hurt,at least I hope not,how is the ole lady getting oxygen?

 

[Carlsummers]

Man, I feel your pain... but, your story telling ability is just too funny..... at least your truck wasn't hurt.....

 

[HOBrian]

I'm with Carl good story telling. On a side note now that the bike is done(in the dealers eyes) how are you going to pick it up??

 

[Duluth Diesel]

OMG that was the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Sorry about your misfortune. You have awesome talent when it comes to telling stories. You wife's talent? We're still working on that one.

 

[bighammer]

My son (just turned 6) did the same thing last year with my 22' power boat and the 03. I had backed the boat into the garage as I normally do and un-hitched. Instead of moving the truck right away, I was busy doing other things. (probably finishing off any left over beer and chips from the boating adventure )



The next day, I went to head out to town and FORTUNATELY went behind the truck and over the hitch rather than the long way around. I noticed the chains (only one really hooked) and the lights plugged in. Of course the trailer was still jacked up off the ball.



I had a little talk with him and told him the steep downhill driveway and road would probably end our boating season prematurely and mess up the truck. I also told myself never to leave it unhitched but near the trailer again.

 

[Spooled-up]

I've noticed that lately, when it rains - it pours.



That story makes my bad day yesterday seem like a walk in the park.

 

[FJfonda]

TGreschuk,

I have to apologize!!!! I laughed so hard at your misfortune that I have tears ... and the folks here at work are just can't figure out why!!! Thank god everyone was OK... . you delivery of the days activities was priceless!!!!

My nightmare is that someday I will be distracted unhooking the trailer and mistakenly leave one or both chains attached... .

 

[rashwor]

I am sorry for your misfortune, but I too was laughing so hard that I was in tears!



I have a 1-month old and have these adventures to look forward to.

 

[bzingre]

Sorry Man

As bad as that is... it's funny as H*^&. Glad everyone was OK

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

#ad




Stop, please stop, you are killing me. Oh, I hurt. Thats got to be the funniest thing I've read on this forum.

#ad








Ooops... Oh,. . I'm sorry to hear you had such an unfortunate day. tsk tsk

 

[CJ8Rockcrawler]

Sorry to hear about your plight... . although, the story is almost as funny as that of someone herculining their hootus!

 

[TGreschuk]

Hi all,

Thanks for the encouragement and kind words... O. K. here's the update... first of all my thumb, if this thing don't stop throbbing soon, I'm gonna pull the bugger off... I stopped by the nice old lady's house to try and patch up the fence. She was sitting on her porch. When I pulled up, she started to hyperventilate and ran for cover. Poor thing, I think my wife traumatized her so

badly that she now gets woozy at the first sight of a red truck. Imagine, she manages to live 90 years, through 2 World Wars the Depression, the Cold War and Y2k and my wife wrecks her with a 6 wheel skid and a borrowed trailer... As far as my bike goes... to be honest, with all the confusion I forgot about it... I think I'll beg the dealer to a) make sure it runs right and b) deliver it... .

 

[Fireman]

OH MAN!

I thought stuff like that only happened to me. I know the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. Everybody got a good laugh, and I promise, one day you'll look back and get a good laugh too! Sometimes things go horrorbly wrong here at work, but no matter how bad it gets we always say it was a good day if everyone goes home at the end of the shift. Thank God no one was hurt, everything else can be fixed.



Fireman

 

[kboettcher]

Originally posted by TGreschuk

Hi all,

Thanks for the encouragement and kind words... O. K. here's the update... first of all my thumb, if this thing don't stop throbbing soon, I'm gonna pull the bugger off... I stopped by the nice old lady's house to try and patch up the fence. She was sitting on her porch. When I pulled up, she started to hyperventilate and ran for cover. Poor thing, I think my wife traumatized her so

badly that she now gets woozy at the first sight of a red truck. Imagine, she manages to live 90 years, through 2 World Wars the Depression, the Cold War and Y2k and my wife wrecks her with a 6 wheel skid and a borrowed trailer... As far as my bike goes... to be honest, with all the confusion I forgot about it... I think I'll beg the dealer to a) make sure it runs right and b) deliver it... .

Well... . theres only one fix for that. Get out the tinyest drill bit you have or a red hot needle and drill a hole in that thumb nail to relieve the blood pressure that is built up in there..... instant relief.

Should you decide to use the drill bit, be very carefull when the bit goes through the nail at the end. I was spinning that little bit back and forth so fast, that when it finally broke through the nail ( blood squirting every where) it bit into the nail like it does into sheet metal and drove the bit down into that tender part of the finger that is under the nail ... ..... now there is a new pain I hadn't felt before. After I just about jumped out of my skin and backed the drill bit out, the relief of the throbbing thumb was worth it

 

[crobertson1]

The drill bit through the finger nail sounds horrible I know but it realy works. If you're careful enough not to go too deep, you can't even feel the drilling process. The relief, oh the sweet relief!

I just used a small bit and used my fingers to turn it. Great story too. Sorry it happed to you though.

 

[Okey0]

Originally posted by kboettcher

Well... . theres only one fix for that. Get out the tinyest drill bit you have or a red hot needle and drill a hole in that thumb nail to relieve the blood pressure that is built up in there..... instant relief.

Should you decide to use the drill bit, be very carefull when the bit goes through the nail at the end. I was spinning that little bit back and forth so fast, that when it finally broke through the nail ( blood squirting every where) it bit into the nail like it does into sheet metal and drove the bit down into that tender part of the finger that is under the nail ... ..... now there is a new pain I hadn't felt before. After I just about jumped out of my skin and backed the drill bit out, the relief of the throbbing thumb was worth it

Well, now that we've discussed drilling into fingernails, perhaps we should move on to stories of ruptured testic**s! OUCH!!!

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

I've applied the hot needle remedy with success, relatively speaking of course



Do you have a drill press?

 

[kboettcher]

Originally posted by Okey0

Well, now that we've discussed drilling into fingernails, perhaps we should move on to stories of ruptured testic**s! OUCH!!!

You DO NOT want to hear my testi story:{

 

[Spooled-up]

Kboettcher,



You don't use any novicaine at the dentist do you.