LMack: When alcohol or religion are involved, it's best to leave them in the ditch, and let the appropriate authority deal with them.
40 years ago I went for a truck load of concrete gravel, as I was leaving the pit area, on a left curve, a rusty old Buick missed his right curve, went across road in front of me and into ditch. I stopped to be sure no one was hurt. They offered me six bottles of Hermit wine to pull them back on the road. Hermit wine was a dollar a bottle wine we got in the 60s, used mainly by wineo's. Personally I thought was garbage. Anyway, I advised them I was doing them a favour by leaving them in the ditch.
Fast forward 20 years and we had a engineer and his wife move in on next farm. They decided to become part time farmers, and further decided to be a substancial influence in the church they belonged to. Within 10 days he phoned to have his tractor towed out of an open drainage ditch, of which I was upstream on. I towed him out, he didn't say so much as thank you, nor did he clear out the ditch blockage he created. Another week went by and he was exploring his newly acquired clear cut forest via tractor and got wedged between two stumps, in ground so soft man could hardly walk over it. My tractors were some distance away, thus I told him he could wait until my forestry skidder was home. When it got home 3 days later I pulled him out and again not even a thank you. Later I heard from a guy in his church that he laid a uncomlimentary blessing on me for making him wait. Still later on icy roads his good wife went in ditch near church, and some two miles from me. She called me for a tow. I advised her she best call the local tow truck service. Her responce, "he'll charge me." I said, "EXACTLY, but just think how much Tom Parker is going to charge me the next time I need him, and he finds out I've been out highway towing with my tractor."
Nope, two people I always leave in the ditch, drunks and bible thumpers.
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