See whatcha get yourself into when you try to be helpful? At least it all
turned out ok, and possibly a few new freinds were made in the process ;-)
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
<dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Date: Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:53 PM
Subject: DML: Ram is offically a 4x4
>
>No truck is a real truck until it has been stuck.
>
>we got fresh - *wet* snow tonight... about 4 inches - I went out with
>the snow blower after work - and then decided to take the Ram out to
>burn off some of the remaining 45 miles of my factory warranty. It was
>still snowing - and I took this back road with lots of sharp turns. I
>saw I had another Ram behind me. I came upon a Olds Cutlass that took a
>turn too fast and ended up well off the road in a ditch - with a Chevy
>Silverado trying to pull him out - I offered to help - only to discover
>I left my tank straps at home. To make matteres worse the guy had locked
>his keys in the car with the engine running and in reverse. I told them
>I would be back in a few mins - that I didn't live far away - I was
>going to fetch my straps - I also grapped a coat hanger.
>
>I returned to see a cop with its lights on and a Ford Ranger stopped -
>apperently the guys got in the Chevy and went for help. The cop left
>and the Ranger left and I stuck around - They arrived and we were going
>to hook up both truck and pull. I started to turn around - on my very
>bald mud Badyear MT/Rs - with a limited slip diff and little traction -
>plus a leeetle too much throttle I sent myself off into teh ditch on the
>other side of the road - very well stuck. Had zero traction and was
>high centered in over 2 feet of snow.
>
>The guy with the Chevy couldn't pull me out - so they phoned a guy with
>a farm tractor. The guy in the Chevy drove off to go get his snow plow
>truck to help too. Ended up pulling out both of us with the tractor.
>The Olds came out real easy - the Ram on the other hand wasn't so easy.
> The tractor had to yank on me a few times to finally get me unstuck.
>Handshaked and thank you's followed and I hauled ass home!
>
>I NEED NEW TIRES DAMNIT!!!
>
>I had a lot of fun actually - I was swearing when I got stuck... my
>pride was wounded. But I don't regret stopping to help. Got to tell
>them the story of dunking Christine too - hehehe. I have adopted Adam's
> philosophy of "now I have another story to tell" when something like
>that happens heh.
>
>Few days ago I also managed to get my moms 2002 4x4 Explorer high
>centered on a big snow drift on a trip to my summer cottage north of
>here. Took me over an hour to shovel the Ford out LOL
>
>--
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Terrible Tom -- AIM & Yahoo Name: SilverEightynine
>
>
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