How to straighten a truck frame, redneck style

I didn't hear this going on at the time, just moments ago, but my older sister did and just got done telling me about it. 

Apparently out front, within mere feet of the front door of Apartment B, our redneck neighbors that live across the street from us were trying to straighten out a truck frame.

However, they were using another truck to do it and trying to do this in the road, not on their property.

Imagine 2 trucks attached to each other by the towing hitch, heading in opposite directions. Now imagine this dangerous scene within 5 feet of your front door on the road. I went out to see the skid marks on the road from this.

My sister was in the right to yell at these idiots because they were endangering other people and personal property. She says some lady also from over there was yelling at her (apparently with no teeth) for yelling at the 2 idiots trying to straighten out a truck frame! Mentioning something about having kids and all, what this has to do with what was going on with the two trucks, I don't know.

My sister believes people like them aren't worth suing because they likely have nothing and or have no insurance for stupid things like this. If I had seen this as it was happening, I would have taken pics, but also advise them that they'd better have insurance and be ready to file a claim as we'd be suing them. I'm sure the event of the chain or whatever they used to hook the 2 trucks together snapping wasn't considered at all.

If you want to straighten a truck frame, you have to go to a garage and take the truck apart. It also costs a lot of money for the labor to do something like this. I would imagine there's some welding involved.

Fighting, burning, and now this. I wish I had the money to buy up these surrounding houses.

And another thing: The rednecks have this big ass USA flag draped across and over their huge wood pile. Nothing wrong with a flag, but does it have to be 8 feet tall?

The best part of this was one guy apologizing and they did leave.

ADDITIONAL:  Later that night, there were 2 ambulances that went rushing down the road, so maybe that was them somewhere else? Who is to know?

Young drivers out and about yesterday

Yesterday I'm doing a few things. Getting water jugs filled, a few foodstuffs. I go to one store in town where they still have the water jug filling machine set at 25 cents and while I get out of the car, I see a girl in a billowy yellow dress and a boy get in a car. Oh, I guess the Spring Formal aka Prom (why is it called Prom?) is tonight. I file that away, fill my jugs and get on with things to do.

Some time later while at Aldi's as I go in, I hear rescue vehicles screaming in the distance, and by the sounds of things, they're going away from where I am. I get done with what I get there and leave, deciding to go right home.

It's a good thing I'm not quick on the accelerator, because as soon as the light turned green for me, I went to turn right out of the parking lot, and I barely managed to keep from getting hit by a black SUV from my left. The driver clearly was not paying attention to the red light he had - clearly red long enough for him to see it. I recall the driver was in the vehicle with someone else (which I managed to see in the split second the damn vehicle sped right in front of me - and there were witnesses), and was able to determine it was an underage driver at the wheel. I was so mad I fumbled around before managing to sound my horn. It must have shaken the other driver up because he did brake and slow down. I wasn't sure if he thought I was coming after him, and I really should have after seeing him pull into the used car lot a block down the road to let him know how close he came to having his insurance premium get more expensive or cancelled altogether and me getting a new car (among other problems).

Anyway, after a few minutes of going towards home, I come to the crossing of where two state routes meet, and the scene of a traffic accident. That's where the rescue vehicles were going.  I see a girl in a familiar yellow dress - just odd that a while before they were in town. I don't know who was at fault, but seeing another girl in the gathered group of onlookers in a purple dress, I guess a more than a few prom attendees' evening just got more complicated if not cancelled altogether. A gray car and a black SUV collided at the light at that intersection.

Makes me wonder how many other high school prom attendees were involved in collisions this weekend. I saw a stretch limo SUV earlier getting fuel. That's the way to do it - hire a limo and driver. I would think that's much safer even if it costs some money to rent one.

I WOULD have to find that stuff NOW dammit...

So my sister asks about a noise maker that helps people fall asleep. I
know Mom used it when we were out at my grandparents' house and I seem
to remember seeing it here after we moved in. She needs it to fall
asleep because of some ringing in her ears.

When I got a moment, I decided to check out the dressers Mom has and had
her stuff in. The one tall dresser didn't have the noise maker.

Then I turned to looking in the drawers in the other dresser.

While I didn't find the noise maker unit, I did freaking finally run
across the Go Lite Mom got for Seasonal Affected Disorder (or Depression
in my Mom's case) as well as the other basket Mom bought for her walker.
I have NO IDEA why the Go Lite was even in the drawer. But that f___en
basket!!! We searched ALL OVER for that damn thing! Mom was hoping to
use it because it held onto her walker better than the one I kept
repairing. I think it got stashed away in the dresser when my other
sister came out one January (I seem to remember this being around New
Years) and helped organize and clean things up. Only nobody reminded
anyone where things got put.

I JUST HAD TO RUN ACROSS THAT DAMN BASKET NOW, DIDN'T I? I saw that
thing in the drawer and called out "MOM, I FINALLY FOUND THAT GODDAMN
BASKET!"

And her Go Lite. Why was it stashed in a dresser drawer when it was
something she needed? She was hoping to find it and show one doctor she
went to about things since the doctor expressed interest in seeing the
device, perhaps recommend it to others.

But I didn't turn up the noise maker. My back was yelling at me over the
exertion, so I took a break and decided to check out the toy box /
storage bin. It wasn't in there either (so it must be in a box upstairs
in that... room), but I managed to find something else. I knew it when I
saw it what the hell it was... Dammit. The yellow piece that went on the
... water reservoir for Mom's BIPAP machine when you needed to rinse it
out and clean it. We lost that at some point and I spent 2 years holding
my fingers over the holes when I rinsed it out with a little vinegar to
remove the annoying particulate build-up inside it. Why the hell did it
end up in with the toys?

Going through the toys was depressing. It certainly was full of the love
my Mom had for her grandchildren. It makes me depressed to realize that
when I finally start a family, my children will never meet a grandmother
that would have loved them a lot as well.

I just HAD to find all 3 of those items today. I still have so much of
Mom's stuff here. I don't know what I'm going to do with a lot of her
books. I will keep some, but there's a lot I have no desire to keep, and
since nobody in the family has voiced any interest (which is a damn
shame), when I sell or get some amount of money out of them, I will use
it as I please and if anyone has a problem, they'll just have to deal
with it.

Dumping WebTV soon

Just letting everyone who needs to know that I'm making plans to cancel
our dialup ISP and WebTV services soon. I've already saved all the
webpages I created and some a friend has on here as well, but I've got
some more details to deal with such as saved webpages and emails. This
will take some time to clear out.

If anybody wants something, grab it now. I need to find a free personal
webpage host that lets me upload my own HTML and pictures similar to
Geociites' File Manager.

Which is odd to be getting rid of WebTV when I got a notice loading up
my email that MSN is offering (requiring is more like it) Windows Live
ID shtuff and wouldn't let me delete email until I created one.
(f__kers).