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Saw an ID-10T this morning

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sparkydave

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This was a good one. I'm waiting at the light next to the gas stations and truck stops, look in the rear view and see what looks like smoke wafting across from a car behind a truck. I'm thinking maybe somebody's got some heavy exhaust, but the left arrow turns green, and the truck starts moving forward. Turns out it's a minivan apparently having the beginnings of a car fire or his radiator is boiling over. He drives past, and I don't really get a burning smell off the cloud coming off, but it's awfully heavy (think movie set smoke screen). He goes through the light, and halfway through the light it goes from being heavy to obscuring. He's got his hazard lights going, so clearly he's trying to get off the road (he had open shoulders for the last couple of miles /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif). So where does he pull in to take care of his potential car fire? THE GAS STATION! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif Not the car wash next to it, but the gas station. Strangely enough, people and cars start scattering as they stare at this guy with clouds of smoke pouring out from under his hood pulling into the place with lots of flammable fuel. Other cars were scattering just because they were enveloped in the smoke screen he was making. I didn't stay long enough to see if it erupted in flames, but he at least got out of the car and was apparently looking for the nearest fire extinguisher or a phone to call a fire truck.
 
Umm... some twisted logic: What better place to quickly find a functioning fire extinguisher than a GAS STATION?!?! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

...certainly not a car wash...
 
I can see it now. The guys at the carwash always vacuum the interior before sending it through.
 
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Who's station was it? Might have been a competitor.
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I can sympathize, I lived in an apartment complex set on a steep hill. One winter it iced, and I could hear this car roaring all the way up. I guess his only ice strategy was that if the speedo read 100 he had to be getting somewhere. He did finally top the hill, but by then the friction had set his tires on fire. The guy just pulls into the empty space for the apartment he was painting, and goes in. The neighbor was the one to call the authorities, after he ran out and moved his car away from the flaming wreck. The driver didn't paint for the complex after that.
 
Hey, a guy in a minivan...what's to expect?
 
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