Time for RoadKill Bingo! Happy Day, everyone! It�s REDNECK MOVING DAY!!
That�s precisely what it did! The passenger lost his grip and that mattress sailed out of the truck bed and right into my path. It was one of those good thick pillow-topped deals, too. No time to swerve, so I was going to have to run over it. But that was okay. Why? Because I have a pickup truck too. So I rolled right over that sucker. In fact, I swerved so that I would put a pair of tire tracks right across the middle of that sucker. Serves them right. A hank of rope costs a buck, the cheap fuckers. Hell, I carry a couple of extra hanks at all time and GIVE them to asshats who try to drive home without tying stuff down. Back when I lived in Tacoma, WA (ah, the lovely Tacoma Aroma) I would listen to the �405 Mattress Report� in the morning to hear where the latest mattress had landed on the 405 between Tacoma and Seattle. Well, kids, today there�s a queen size on the northbound 405 just north of the Tukwila exit. It�s half in the righthand lane so you should be able to avoid it . . . Today it�s a twin size boxspring, that�s right, a boxspring, on the southbound 405 just before the Auburn exit, you�ll want to avoid that because it�s a boxspring and not a mattress, try not to hit it if you�ve got a compact. . . Then of course, there�s the ubiquitous one shoe. Why one shoe? I always expect to see the other shoe in the near vicinity. Can you imagine, all these shoes without a partner, left by the side of the road in the wake of emission fumes and Cheetos bags, left to search for their solemates. Yes, yes, smack me now. Before I get to the children.
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