So, yeah, as the title says......Jeezuz.......Driving home tonight, an 8 mile portion of my drive to/from work is across a very straight road right through the middle of the Indian Reservation. Seen the signs for years "Watch for animals".....seen some dogs, ground squirrels, a snake or two, thats about it.
Crossed down that road tonight, about 40 minutes ago, driving my friends Xterra (Sergio's, some of you have met, he borrowed my truck for a hunting trip in Montana), and at 60 MPH, pitch dark out, Black and white cow with a calf just standing in the middle of my lane! Couldn't use High beams as a couple cars had just passed me going the other way. So here's the Readers Digest version.
Slammed on the brakes, veered right onto the dirt berm, then left REAL fast mashing the gas, pretty damn sure I had that little thing on two wheels (Which scared me even more). Then I noticed, realized really, all the rattling and crashing in the back seat. Paid no mind to it at the moment, as I thought I was done for, the truck then wanted to "wiggle" and wheel hop (Auto 4x4 kicked in, I'm guessing). By this point, I'm well past the cows, and trying not to die from all the swerving, braking and bouncing that was going on when I was hit in the back of the head with something. Turns out a few minutes ago it was a 10mm socket that I found on the dashboard. Sergio saw fit to leave his cheap ass tool boxes seatbelted in the back seat. Messicans, Cripes! Squared the lil slanty eyed SUV up and slid it to a stop on the dirt berm about, I dunno, 150 feet from the damn cow, and took a whollop to the back of my right shoulder from a 1/2" breaker bar........
THAT HURT!
By the time I managed to collect my thoughts, and realized the truck was sideways 3 feet from 5 6" concrete poles to protect anyone from driving, or crashing into, the Maricopa Wash, only pics I could get turned out total darkness from my phone! No, I was NOT about to get real close to it for good pics, and yes, that probably had a lot to with shaking hands, etc. I drove home, my pants felt a little funny, and very wet from the water bottle I had in the console. Got home, opened a beer, 2 actually, on 4 now, and went and pulled out the FULL water bottle from the SUV while I was checking for damage. No damage. Skid marks in the underwear must be from the dirty car seat and Serg musta had another water bottle in there somewhere..........
What IS it with me and random cows showing up?
Ray
