Heart Check

I-84 westbound, heading down the grade to the Delaware River. I was passing a six-wheeled pickup truck which was fifth-wheel towing a large Raptor RV trailer, one of those puppies with three wheels per side. Just as I passing that beast, it blew one of trailer tires.

I stomped the gas briefly to get well out in front of the rig, in case it started to blow other tires. A long while ago, I saw a landscaper's truck which was hauling a small Bobcat on a six-wheel trailer with similarly sized wheels. One tire blew out and then the other tires on that side blew in rapid succession, which made a hell of a mess when that ting ground to a halt and blocked two lanes of the highway.

Anyway, in my mirror, I saw that the driver went right past the last NY exit on I-84 and proceeded over the Delaware River bridge. He must have known that he blew a tire, for he was slowing down. He turned off at the first PA exit, but if he hadn't, I was planning to call the troopers.

By the way, what is it with Blogger changing the blogging interface? I don't see what the hell they gained from it. They changed it so that in HTML drafting mode, the freaking interface does not recognize carriage returns. You have to either insert the line break code manually or switch to "compose mode" and use the carriage return to break up the lines.

Improvement: NOT!  The senior managers at Google should be breaking out the barbed-wire whips.