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Written by JJ Tyler   
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Driving down the road this morning, my truck was bombarded by several chunks of gravel. It was like the millennium falcon driving through an asteroid field. When I looked up at the truck well in front of me, I saw that little warning sign: stay back 200 feet, or company is not liable.

Now, I couldn’t actually read that, because I was around 130 feet back, and the only one who could read this sign from that far back would be someone with a robotic eagle eye.

And how would the company not be liable? If I filled my truck full of light weight steak knives and drove at high speeds, cutting off people and slamming my breaks to watch the cutlery fly overhead, would I be ok as long as I had a sign?

A person would walk up to me with a knife edge sticking through his temple, “Uh, sir?”

“Read the sign buddy,” I would say. And then he would cry. He hadn’t read the sign and it was his fault that he had a Ginsu sticking through his cranium.

Has technology not caught up with proper gravel truck tarp coverage? The other day I saw an artificial heart placed in an endangered Panda, but we can’t put a tarp on a gravel truck? Let the Pandas die, I say.

Why can’t a truck full of marshmallow have a faulty tarp?

Copyright 2008 JJ Tyler
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Comments (10)
Posted by gtmike
2008-08-21 22:55:01
rant

More of a rant than a story but it was well written and I have to agree. I currently have a large chip in my windshield from the same kind of truck but I don't think there's anything you can do. Maybe get my own sign.GTMike
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Posted by Zombie Punk
2008-08-21 23:09:46
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that's why i like molotov cocktails
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Posted by Dirkin
2008-08-22 00:58:01
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That was pretty funny and... wierd
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Posted by philneale1952
2008-08-22 01:45:16
Yes

Along with Dirkin, I thoiught this was an amusing, if too brief, short.

Why DOES the writing on truck warnings have to be 2" high?

Could be expandede into other areas. Go on JJ, rant away!

Phil
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Posted by lemon
2008-08-22 12:58:32
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Great rant. My parents bought a brand new Toyota Highlander with all the trimmings two years ago and the FIRST trip they went driving it, a truck like you described cut them off and put a crack in the windshield with a gravel chunk. Just so you know, the company DID pay for it lol
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Posted by harmattan
2008-08-22 16:55:46
elfen safety

Good to see a rant every now and then. "Letters to the Times" page is one of the finest havens of wicked humour and anger in most literary terms. Why shouldn't this site be.....?

Kind regards

Harmattan
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Posted by Something Indecent
2008-08-28 14:51:53
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Hahahaha great comparison with the heart technology and the tarp tech. I found this to be a light and interesting read. Why not marshmellows indeed. I gotta tell you, I'm tempted to try that steak knives idea.......but with dirty hypodermic needles. :)
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Posted by Ruby Whispers
2008-10-05 23:02:03
Cute

I liked the way you started it out by advising you were under the 200 ft limit and not able to see the sign. This was really quite funny. I think you should change the category to humor instead of non-fiction.

High marks.

J
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Posted by cookingWine
2008-10-11 13:28:09
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You're a funny dude.

Basketball season is coming and I don't remember whether you were a Pistons or Celtics fan but either way, the Lakers are coming for you.
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Posted by hafwit
2008-10-14 14:50:47
ginsu?

Can you still buy those things? If so where? I bought some from TV many years ago and they were really good knives. It never dawned on me that someone could have meen killed by the truck delivering them though. Was that you I saw the other day swirving back and forth throwing fireworks out the back window? Nuttin like revenge huh? thanks for the read!
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