Posted by sgtbull on January 10, 2011 at 11:04:19 from (166.159.173.247):
I work nights. EARLY one morning, after I had gotten home and was blissfully asleep, my wife wakes me up to tell me the FEDEX man was stuck on our road. Our road is oiled/chipped up to my driveway. Beyond that it is dirt. In wet weather, of course, there is that immediate and obvious transition of dirt to MUD. This road meanders for about a mile before rejoining an oiled road. Only I and one neighbor live on each end of this fair weather road, and we own all of the property it runs through. I was amazed that the guy would go past my house onto the mud road. I was even MORE amazed when I found that he hadn't passed my driveway, but had driven up from the south, from my neighbor's house on the other end. I was quite annoyed at being awakened, and even more annoyed that this driver had torn up over a mile of road, deeply rutting it. The road commissioner had spent nearly a week getting the road in shape during the summer, recrowning it, working over the ditches etc. I went out and spoke with the driver, who had asked my wife if I had a tractor. Normally, I'll go way out of my way to help someone out, but when I spoke to this young man, I asked him why on earth he had driven down this road. He replied, "because my GPS said to go this way."
THUD.... the sound of my jaw dropping.
Incredulously, I asked him if he had ever seen mud before... and if perhaps it crossed him mind that driving a ton truck down an obviously mud road MIGHT BE A BAD IDEA?
I then explained to the 29 yr old driver, that yes I had a tractor. 9 of them in fact. And chains. And they were merely 200' away, in my nice dry shed. And that they were all very clean and were going to remain that way. And that he was going to have to call a tow to remove his vehicle. At this point, the driver became somewhat abusive, verbally, because I would not pull him out with my tractor. I simply turned and walked back to my house, opened my garage door, and got into my SQUAD CAR, and returned back, parking on the last bit of good road. I believe the reality of his situation began to sink in. I advised him at this point I would be calling him a tow, and asked if he had a preference. His attitude changed somewhat and he made his own arrangements for a tow. The worst part of this, besides the commentary on the total lack of common sense today, is that the road is a public road, and therefore the recourse for financial compensation for the damages are very limited. (taxes pay for the roads repair, you know.) So, my road is destroyed until next summer and will only get progressively worse over the course of the winter and spring as water runs down the ruts. !!!! Just had to vent.
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