> If only that were true. Instead, we have hundreds of thousands of folks who never go offroad with
> their SUVs and rarely respond to their cellphones in times of real emergencies.
>
> We've been having bad storms here in Seattle. My wife and I were driving one night along a fairly
> well travelled two-lane highway when we spotted a car rolled on its side down in a ditch with its
> emergencies on and a man standing beside it out in the pouring rain. Despite the heavy amount of
> SUV traffic on the road, not one person even slowed down to see if someone needed help much less
> pull over to lend a hand.
>
> Since there was no barely a shoulder to pull over onto, I "departed pavement" and crossed over to
> the other side of the ditch. I got out and asked the man if he was alright and if he needed help.
> My wife was already diving into the backseat for the emergency first-aid kit. The man had a
> cellphone in hand and said that he was okay and had already phoned someone. He thanked me, I baded
> him good luck and we left.
>
> I had a hard time pulling back onto the road from the ditch because no one was slowing down to let
> me in. After finally getting back on the road, I noticed that mine was the only SUV with even the
> slightest bit of dirt or offroad scratches on it. Of course that's usually the case around here
> anyways regardless of climate conditions.
>
>
>
Lol, as long as we are off topic and telling SUV stories. The last storm we had some poor guy in a
backhoe was driving home along side the highway at 11:00 from his last job and diped a wheel off the
shoulder and got caught up in the snow bank with the left rear wheel in the air and no way to back
out, forget SUV drivers, 2 TOW TRUCKs passed this guy and didn't stop. Someone in a nissan sentra
stopped but what the hell was he going to do. I had taken my tool box with the winch control and
chains out of my truck that morning to fit some building supplies in there so I told the guy to hang
on and I'll run back to the house and come pull him out. Well I did that but by the time I got back,
him and the guy with the nissan giving him directions had used the bucket to try and get free, he
was now 4 feet below the road down in the ditch. Sorry buddy, I can't dead lift 6 tonnes with my
winch. We called a really big expensive tow truck. The backhoe operator didn't make any money that
night. That same night a black 4 runner went off the same road. The next morning people were saying
to me at work that they thought they saw my truck crashed in the woods. I went to see it, it was a
black 4runner, the same year as mine, but with bald 29" tires, rusted out bumpers, no winch or rear
spare tire carrier, no roof racks, basically you typical claped out peice of ****. I was insulted,
don't you people have a clue how much work I put into mine?
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