The Scariest Thing...

[drgibson]

Well I have had some scary moments in my life and I guess at the time each was the scariest. When I was young and racing I had several incidents that were scary. I went in the Air Force at the age of 17 it was scary. During an exercise in Florida, due to a lap belt failure I fell out of a helicopter, well almost, I came out of the copter but was able to grab the support that held the seat, at the same time the pilot turned the chopper so that that side was elevated and I was able to crawl back in with the help of others. I had children! Daughters! Along the way there have been other scary moments just last month I had the incident with the light pole across the road.

Well today I had another Scariest moment. I was in traffic coming home and as traffic started to slow a semi truck changed lanes into the lane I was in thinking that it was moving faster. Not so we were slowing down too, the semi was speeding up. Did I mention that he was right behind me? I realized what was going to happen just about the time that the semi driver realized that traffic had stopped. I watch for about a second and realized that if he got it stopped it would be past where I was. So I did a little lane splitting I rolled up past three cars and continued to watch the show. The car that was directly in front of me before I fled did so also, moving into the emergency lane and pulling up beside the car in front of it. The truck came to a stop just behind the next car in line.

It is an imposing sight to see a 18 wheeler bearing down on you I don’t care what you are in or on. As always it pays to pay attention to what is going on around you and always leave yourself an escape route.

BTW I owe my safety to my Loud Pipes…



Wait I don’t have loud pipes.

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