People suck, but you already knew that.

[Fencer]

So, there I was tooling around in the rain on my way to my next appointment. I am traveling what could be a perfect MC road (Cherokee Rd, in Mt Brook, Al) except it is in a highly residential area, around a golf course. I think the cheapest home on the road is around 900k if that low. The road is residential but all "estate" lots. Most of the homes can't be seen from the road and the road is a heavily wooded 2 laner. While residential, it is used as a main through way in the area.

I come around a corner to find folks stopped and doing U-turns. When enough of them clear out of the way, I see the problem, a tree is down from the storm and lying across both lanes. Its a pretty big tree, prob around 60 foot with a 3 foot base.

I decided to do a Chevy commercial with my big truck. A Crew Cab Diesel Dually 3500.

I pull up to the tree, get out in the rain, pull out a tow strap, and start a tuggin at the tree. Folks see that I am trying to clear the road and stop turning around.

On the first attempt my strap broke, but so did the tree, it was already cracked from impacting the road. I get back out (in the rain) and loop the top half of the tree after I tie my strap back together and start pulling. I get the on-coming way pretty cleared, about 90 %. I step out, and lift the base of the broken top (still about 9 inches in dia.) to finish pushing it off the road. I pivot this heavy top trunk off the road, and here comes the first car. I am in the rain, half a tree is still across the road, and this ******* is in a hurry <_< .

I get back in the truck, to try to push the large trunk out of the way and a few more decide their lane is now clear, time to go. :glare: :angry:

I pull my beast into the on-coming lane so I can use my back steel bumper againt the trunk, I throw it in 6x6 mode and push the tree trunk, pivoting the root ball and all, off the road. The road is now clear, I am wet for my next appointment (which I don't think I sold), and I drive off.

Some folks just really suck

 

[odot]

Yer such a nice guy. I'm gonna send you some beads.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Yer such a nice guy. I'm gonna send you some used *** beads.

'bout time I got sumpin to work with..Whats with this place lately?

:jester:

 

[twowheelnut]

Ya know what, Fencer? You're right. I've always tried to be the nice guy (save it, you ****** bags ), but the more I live life, the more I realize that it doesn't pay to be a nice guy and never has. Fact is, being an ******* gets you a whole lot more than does being nice.

-Grumpy-Old-Crotchety TWN

 

[Bustanut joker]

Damn T dub I thought i was unique. Guess I was wrong :blink: Nice guys do finish last!

:jester:

 

[airboss]

No good deed shall go unpunished :blink:

 

[twowheelnut]

Damn T dub I thought i was unique. Guess I was wrong :blink: Nice guys do finish last!
:jester:

Werd, bro. Werd.

 

[jwilly]

Boy this brings back memories...

 

[madmike2]

Yep...sometimes doing good is the ONLY reward because "people" don't care and wouldn't think to say, "Thanks".

I'm guessing that most of those I've met here would still stop and do the right or good thing. Just because that's the kind of people you are.

You DO meet the nicest people on an FJR (or at least on the FJR Forum).

[SIZE=8pt]And, Uncle Tim, I loves yuh, Bro.[/SIZE]

 

[Jagermeister]

I pivot this heavy top trunk off the road, and here comes the first car. I am in the rain, half a tree is still across the road, and this ******* is in a hurry <_< .I get back in the truck, to try to push the large trunk out of the way and a few more decide their lane is now clear, time to go. :glare: :angry:

Some folks just really suck

Yeah, they suck. But, they're probably unhappy in the process.

You, on the other hand, have a good deed to be proud of. You Win.

 

[NoCage]

It's Mountain Brook for Chrisakes Fencer... full 'o ********, whatd'ya expect? Good on ya' though.

JWilly... you talkin' about the puppy turned to large mongrel that chewed up a buncha your **** that you saved from your trip back from Oklahoma?

 

[dcarver]

On the other hand -

Last night coming home, the 101 is stacked up at Cuesta Grade, just north of San Luis Obispo. Big rig truck wreck.

I split lanes for awhile, but then the traffic picked up the pace and I settled into herd mentality.

While passing a Ford F150 pulling an empty flat bed trailer, I notice the trailer hitch latch is not in the 'locked' position.

I slow down, the F150 pulls up alongside.. I get within 2 feet of the driver, who has the window down.

'Hey', I yell, 'You're trailer isn't hitched'!

Should have seen the look on passenger; this guy's face just blanches.

They immediately pull of the side and hopefully fix it, I continue up the hill.

Later, on my off ramp, I had to stop because I hit a really big bug that completely smeared my shield.

And here comes the F150 - they stop, say 'Whoa, dude - THANK YOU! Followed by the passenger saying 'I completely spaced it' and 'I really Thank You' for noticing.

So there - sometimes good guys do have good things happen.

Fencer - it's all about karma, and karma don't happen immediately.

 

[jwilly]

JWilly... you talkin' about the puppy turned to large mongrel that chewed up a buncha your **** that you saved from your trip back from Oklahoma?

No, although that's not a bad example either.

I'm referring to the person that I helped in San Antonio, TX while out there on business the first week of January. They pulled into a parking place right across from my hotel and reverse stopped working in their van. I was walking back from dinner and they asked if I could help them push their van back so they could get out of the parking lot. Such a nice couple, oh why not. Yeah we got it moved, and the next morning I had pain in my hip like I had pulled a muscle. The pain continued to get worse but because I was traveling I didn't make it to the doctor for 2 weeks.

Long story short, I have a herniated disk in my lower back and have been fighting severe pain in my back and left leg. I'm on epidural #2 as of last week and I'm ready to start shooting people at the insurance company that are convinced that their operating procedures are more important than my sanity!

Will I try to help people in the future? Probably....

JW

 

[Scab]

Will I try to help people in the future? Probably....

*******. Buy TWN's book, learn.

 

[jwilly]

*******. Buy TWN's book, learn.

Waiting for the full color coffee table release to come out...

JW

 

[twowheelnut]

I'm still working on that book JW, but in the meantime please feel free to order this similar book of burdens born by nice people:

From the book Mother - "Mother Goes To Market" - by Judy Olausen

Book link. By the way, this is truly a great gift for your moms or wives. A classic coffee table book by a gal who posed her real mom in various poses of motherhood's burdens and frivolity. Two thumbs up!

 

[vabrzn]

I pivot this heavy top trunk off the road, and here comes the first car. I am in the rain, half a tree is still across the road, and this ******* is in a hurry <_< .I get back in the truck, to try to push the large trunk out of the way and a few more decide their lane is now clear, time to go. :glare: :angry:

Some folks just really suck

Yeah, they suck. But, they're probably unhappy in the process.

You, on the other hand, have a good deed to be proud of. You Win.

+1

 

[Fencer]

Dcarver, good for you.

Willy, The prob wasn't pushing the van, You're just getting old

And yes TWN is correct (I know, I'll go get the soap and wash my mouth now). Nice guys do finish last.

 

[colin]

good stuff dude.

karma.

it'll come back.... looks like you are on the OK side of it......

giddyup!