On the way to work in my short five mile trek I don't have to deal with too many road annoyances. But this time I was ticked off because of something that is against the law AND common sense and still is seen on the freeways.
No, not the texting driver, the eating on the way driver, the makeup applying driver or even the zig zag crossing the lanes with no blinkers driver.
This is just a big truck carrying gravel. Without a cover or tarp over it.
The sound of teeny gravel pebbles falling feet or yards away behind it as it gets on the freeway. The sound of little tippity-taps as the gravel hit your car. And the sound of my mouth as I hold my breath hoping that I don't get a cracked windshield out of this.
Ohhhhh (imagine sounding like Simmity Sam here) Ohhhhh, that varmint! You see, I don't care about the exterior of my admittedly old jalopy of a car. But what I do care about is not having to fix a cracked windshield because someone decided it was a good idea to get on the freeway at 55+ miles per hour driving a truck that is releasing pebbles at an unacceptable rate. Acceptable rate is zero.
Well, I made it through okay. Having three lanes and moving two away worked fine. But what about other drivers?
*The ones with brand new cars.
*The ones driving a convertible.
*The ones on motorcycle.
*The ones that have no choice but to get behind this truck and get that cracked windshield or worse.
Has something like this happened to you? Or really just annoyed you?
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