No good deed ever goes unpunished!

[JHerrlich]

Yeah, I felt pretty sick about it. I think i felt more rage at first though. My poor truck.



This is where we hold the Garlic Festival... the web site is http://www.gilroygarlicfestival.com/

 

[musclefixer]

My turn... .

Had the truck a few months. Went to the RV show.

Someone broke into my truck stealing two motorola radios, and putting a nice dent in the passenger side and screwing up the door handle.

Next, went to breakfast a couple months ago. Got to the parking lot, and some mother f-er keyed my truck on the drivers rear q-panel.

Next again, took the truck to the DEALER to warranty a clutch fan (after 14K mi. ) and some lot monkey put a dent/scratch in the drivers rear quarter panel. .

I'd better watch those hills, or I'll end up on the roof too.

I'm not sure if it's me, or this may be a jinxed truck.

This is the last truck I thought I'd buy, but the way it seems, who knows... ...

Jesse.

 

[SteveH]

Man I cried like a baby on reading that. Two of us were loading a 21 foot bass boat in New Braunfels several years ago. It was on a grade, sitting on concrete, with about a 10' run till it got to my 1 ton. The boat was heaver than we thought, the grade was steeper than we thought, the wives laughed louder than we thought, and the crash of the boat trailer tongue hitting my pickup in the rear bumper was much more bone crunching that we I thought, and the dent was bigger than we thought. Oh yes, the bark off my finger did hurt for quite a while, the cut where my finger was between part of the tongue and the bumper was much deeper than we first thought. I'm sobbing a little right now even thinkin about it.

 

[John Berger]

I got a minor scrape on my passenger side dually fender. Didn't even hurt the truck. I need to get something to take the scrape out. But I've kind of got used to it. Call it a character scratch.



My forte is my travel trailer. I've taken part of my roof and some wood molding out. I took the house TV antenna out one day because I forgot to put the steps up before taking off. My wife backed me under a tree which put a nice scrape in our awning. I sideswiped a building in St. Augustine. Left a brown scrape in the trailer molding. The trailer runs great now These were all minor and easy to fix problems. A more serious situation arose on a trip to Washington, D. C. last summer. A truck gave the trailer a tire donut and we were traveling about 70 mph. I never noticed the ding until we got to our camp site. It was the strangest feeling to know that my guardian angel was watching out for me. It's fun to listen to people in a campsite sit around and talk about some of the screwups they've seen and been involved in. There are some good ones.

 

[Diesel Dan]

Hey Mr Herrlich,

I doubt you want to relive that nightmare but inquiring minds want to know how you rolled that beauty (mine looks a lot like that one and it is scarry to see) so we can learn from your mistake

if you will let us



Best regards



DD

 

[JHerrlich]

I was driving down a country road at about midnight and hit a puddle the size of a small pond. It took my right side in first and dragged me off of the road. I managed to recover and get back on the road (which was pretty wet), I hit the brakes and my rear tires locked up (I don't know where the ABS went) and the truck spun around backwards. I ended up sliding off the other side of the road going backwards and hit a ditch that was about 2 feet deep. That caused my truck to bounce into the air and land upside down on the drivers side and then rolled back over onto it's wheels. And, to whoever is wondering I was only going about 45 MPH. It was about 35 degrees out and the truck still ran so I ran it with the heaters on to keep us alive in the cold until the emergency services showed up. I was the worst injured and I only had some minor cuts on my hand and head. Needless to say, I'm VERY careful in wet weather now.



You can see the rest of the pictures at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jherrlich/new_page_1.htm



The scratches on the truck are from barbed wire and the red spot in the picture of the headliner is where I hit my head after I put my head through the closed window.