Fence post - n. An alternative when brakes aren't enough.

From time to time, I've been known to do something incredibly stupid. The most recent "dumbass" incident is wrecking my truck. Now, you're probably thinking, "Joey did something stupid? That's impossible. He's the wisest man ever to walk the earth." Sad to say, that's not always true. (Please note: this post may have several hints of sarcasm. Do not take them seriously.) I'll explain how this happened, but to do that, I need to go back a little.

My dad recently bought a 55 gallon aquarium. Why he did that would never be fully known to me. So he filled it with water, and put a dozen minnows in it, the kind you buy at a store where you can rent a movie and buy gas at the same time. So we had a bunch of little 20 cent fish swimming around in a $160 aquarium. I thought it was a little boring to have tiny silver fish swimming around, so I took my dad's minnow trap and drove out to the creek and try my luck and catching some perch. It just happens that between our house and the creek is 3 miles of unpaved road. After soaking the trap for a few hours, I drove back out there to pick it up and see if I caught anything. I peeled out a little at the first turn and had such a thrill from it, that I wanted to try it again. So the next turn, I pressed the gas pedal a little more to give it some more spin. The truck skidded to the right, I turned into the skid. It worked great. It turned around to the left, and I turned to the left, and it worked...kinda. It seemed I miscalculated the speed going around the curve and just ran right into a 3 inch steel fence post. Luckily for me, the fence post was fine. My truck, however, wasn't fine. It folded the bumper from a 180 degree angle to around 120, cracked the grill and the brand new header panel I had just replaced, and dented the hood a little. The license plate took the form of the fence post and made a perfect half-circle, along with the bumper that was behind it. What's even more lucky is the new radiator I replaced only weeks before showed no signs of leaking. So my truck has experienced trauma from 3 sides; the driver's side, the passenger's side, and now the front. All I need is a wreck from behind and my truck will become a compact truck.

Anybody want an old banged up Ranger with over 212,000 miles on it? It's a standard and drives like a dream...a red and black mediocre dream.


Oh, if you're a fan of John Lennon, I strongly recommend you watch "Nowhere Boy." Usually a biopic movie doesn't always turn out good, but this one is a must-see.