The Tow Files: Why Make Just ONE Massive Mistake?

[DiRF]

Why me? I try to lead a good life ya know? Really, I do!!!! Why meeeeee!?!!!

https://youtu.be/1MNllfr6wVY?t=53s

[greek_jester]

I had an unexpected hitch hiker the other day - tootling to work and I noticed movement on my window. It was a huntsman spider. He crawled down the window then made himself at home between the driver door and the sill - around 3 inches from my shoulder. I'm not arachnophobic but I was still trying to keep some space between me and him for the rest of the peak hour drive.

Anyone scared of spiders, read no further!

for reference - this is a huntsman. They're not harmful to humans but they look the part of every arachnophobe's nightmares. For once, an Aussie critter that's not gonna kill you (although they might scare you half to death)!

That is quite possibly the cutest spider I've ever seen. It's so pettable!

In other news, my mum once slammed on the brakes, jumped out of the car (in the middle of one of the busiest roads in Luton at the height of rush hour) and ripped off her shirt. She's a severe arachnophobe and a diddy little money spider decided to drop into her cleavage!

[Aria]

Oh they will, the phone company is a big believer in "you break it, you buy it"

Speaking of such things, I work for the phone company and we have overseas agents. They handle all the low level billing calls and a fair bit of tech support.

Once, a ship disregarded their charts, or whatever they have, and dropped an anchor in the WRONG spot. Severing a fibre cable travelling along the bottom of the sea. They took out our entire offshore campus. It was a NIGHTMARE. I believe it took us a week to fix it.

I was told the cost of replacing that was in the millions and that ship's company was on the hook...

[Argabarga]

Oh they will, the phone company is a big believer in "you break it, you buy it"

[MoonCat]

Stupidest reason for a car accident I ever heard of was an idiot who was eating a bowl of cereal while driving his motor home down a country road. He hit a telephone pole and totaled it. Tried to deny what he was doing but since milk and cereal were all over the interior of the van's front, nobody believed him. Best part? The phone company would have billed him for the replacement cost of the pole. I know this because friends of mine lived just off the road this happened on, and one of them worked for the phone company.

[Seanette]

I had an unexpected hitch hiker the other day - tootling to work and I noticed movement on my window. It was a huntsman spider. He crawled down the window then made himself at home between the driver door and the sill - around 3 inches from my shoulder. I'm not arachnophobic but I was still trying to keep some space between me and him for the rest of the peak hour drive.

Anyone scared of spiders, read no further!

for reference - this is a huntsman. They're not harmful to humans but they look the part of every arachnophobe's nightmares. For once, an Aussie critter that's not gonna kill you (although they might scare you half to death)!

Awww, he's cute! Would be a little startling to see close-up while driving, though.

I didn't know Australia had non-deadly spiders.

[mathnerd]

I had a slight freak out once while driving due to an unexpected hitchhiker. I did manage to keep ahold of myself until I got the car pulled over, but that had more to do with the fact that freaking out would have been more likely to induce the coral snake on my floorboard to bite.

[LesserSouthernFroglet]

I had an unexpected hitch hiker the other day - tootling to work and I noticed movement on my window. It was a huntsman spider. He crawled down the window then made himself at home between the driver door and the sill - around 3 inches from my shoulder. I'm not arachnophobic but I was still trying to keep some space between me and him for the rest of the peak hour drive.

Anyone scared of spiders, read no further!

for reference - this is a huntsman. They're not harmful to humans but they look the part of every arachnophobe's nightmares. For once, an Aussie critter that's not gonna kill you (although they might scare you half to death)!

[Cia]

I was once riding in a car with the windows down and a hornet flew in. The woman driving literally shut her eyes, threw her hands up and started screaming while in heavy traffic.

Something like this happened a few years ago out on Strawberry Hill except the insect was a bee. They went off the road and rolled down the aforementioned hill. Luckily for the couple one of the people who saw the accident was a nurse.

[XCashier]

In my state #4 alone WILL get you a ticket. I'm guessing the combination of #6 and #7 are going to get this clown in some VERY serious trouble...

Good. Someone this stupid doesn't need to be driving. Give him a trip to the Greybar Hotel, and when he gets out take his license away for good and make him take the bus. Everybody else on the road will thank the police for that.

[WishfulSpirit]

Screaming because of a hornet? Geesh my husband is allergic to them things and doesn't react like that.

[eltf177]

4. Do not wear seatbelt, so that you bounce your head off the steering wheel, requireing the EMTs to be send out for you.

6. Have a suspended license

7. Have no insurance

In my state #4 alone WILL get you a ticket. I'm guessing the combination of #6 and #7 are going to get this clown in some VERY serious trouble...

[wolfie]

I was once riding in a car with the windows down and a hornet flew in. The woman driving literally shut her eyes, threw her hands up and started screaming while in heavy traffic.

Must have been a big car. Are you sure it wasn't an Eagle, a Falcon, or a Tomcat? Or possibly a Rambler, a Pacer, a Javelin, or a Gremlin?

[notalwaysright]

5. While wiating for EMTs, tell responding police officer the reason you hit the guy in front of you was because you weren't watching the road, you were looking down so you could tie your shoes...

Really? Tying his shoes? I just can't even. Brain dead.

Slightly off-topic, but still to do with a car accident... I noticed a CW was walking to work, when I remember that she previously had a car. It turns out that one day she got coffee at the Green Mermaid drive thru which is directly across the street from my work. As she was on her way out, she spilled coffee on herself and swerved into a lamp post, totaling her car.

She's very sweet, but we're all driving along side these people! The people who hit the gas when they spill coffee. The people who tie their shoes while driving with no insurance, a suspended license, around school buses. I was once riding in a car with the windows down and a hornet flew in. The woman driving literally shut her eyes, threw her hands up and started screaming while in heavy traffic.

[Kogarashi]

6. Have a suspended license

Gee, I wonder why.