No skid

Traffic was light on the freeway this morning. In the field the last mist was burning off and there were about eight deer grazing. Traffic was light and then it bunched up and we all had to slam on our brakes and pray no one piled into us. I have some antiskid system on my car, and it stopped well with no screeching tires, but it still took me five kilometers to get most of the other people’s burnt rubber smell out of my cab. I call where I sit in the Dobl

5 responses to “No skid

  1. deb

    *chuckle* & also reminded to get my brakepads inspected :)

  2. See, most of us can light the pipe in the bathroom, and pop the pills right at our desks while fiddling with our iTunes playlist or, ok, Winamp, fine. And another thing? No web surfing from the truck cab.

    Or the Doblo cab.
    Unless you’re driving through a wifi hotspot. But, um, don’t.

    (I am so excited: in just 8 days we will maybe get to see some Austrian deer! What do deer say, in German? Do they go “bleat,” like they do here?)

  3. mig

    duskish and dawnish for the deer. not sure what they say, although i’ve heard bucks sort of roaring in mating season…

  4. German deer, they do something called “r

  5. mig

    Ja, our Austrian deer do the R