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Sunday Mary and I were heading to a memorial service for a friend of our son who had died. We had just gotten onto I-40 west bound and I was following a pickup truck that had a bunch of stuff in the back, incuding an aluminum painter's ladder. Thankfully, I have developed a habit of never tailgating, for if I had been closer I probably would not be sitting here typing this.
All of the sudden, the ladder came out of the truck and was headed straight for us- bouncing on the highway! I immedialtly started breaking and, thankfully, had enough shoulder to get over and avoide being hit.
I stopped and ran back to where the ladder was in the middle of the right lane and had to wave off several semis and cars so they would avoid the ladder. The driver of the truck stopped further up and backed up to where the ladder was, which I was attempting to get ouot of the road. The idiot had the ladder tied down with bungie cord!
Took a while for my adrenaline to return to something approaching normal.
All of the sudden, the ladder came out of the truck and was headed straight for us- bouncing on the highway! I immedialtly started breaking and, thankfully, had enough shoulder to get over and avoide being hit.
I stopped and ran back to where the ladder was in the middle of the right lane and had to wave off several semis and cars so they would avoid the ladder. The driver of the truck stopped further up and backed up to where the ladder was, which I was attempting to get ouot of the road. The idiot had the ladder tied down with bungie cord!
Took a while for my adrenaline to return to something approaching normal.