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Old 02-13-2008, 10:27 PM   #5 (permalink)
Big Dave
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Being able to manuever would not have helped at all. I was penned in by Armco.

Pickups are by nature treacherous to drive, being nose neavy. There is a Darwinian selection amongst pickup drivers. They either learn the limitations or they have wrecks/scare the bejeebers out of themselves and get rid of a vehicle they cannot handle.

There is also the thing about the "hauling stuff" mission. Pickups do that well. It just happened today that I was running empty.

That knucklehead doesn't know how close he came to dying a second time. If I had gotten out and gone over to him, I might have beaten him to a frazzle. Fortunately for him, I could see they were breathing and scared to death. I just minded my blood pressure and went on.
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