Driving home on a major congested freeway. In left lane in stop and go traffic. Notice the truck in front of me in next lane to me has a long length of plastic hung up on the front passenger shock absorber area trailing back to end of truck. Think to myself when he speeds up a little that may wrap around his drive shaft. Have had to cut plastic off a drive shaft before and while not hard it's no picnic.
Do being the good Samaritan I am, caught up to truck, rolled down my passenger window and honked to gain drivers attention. He looks over at me with blank look as I point to bottom of him truck while mouthing the words "you're dragging something". He shrugs his shoulders like "What", so I make the motion to roll down the window. He obviously does not want to do it, so I empathetically make the roll down motion again.
At this point he does something that I have never seen before. As he does not seem to want to roll down the window, I am expecting anything from mouthed or gestured obscenity to showing me a weapon (this is in Houston, we all have one in our truck). Instead he raises both arms above the bottom of the window, where they have been out of sight and shows me that they both end just past the elbow. Guess he can't work the window controls with the stumps. I sit back amazed and for the rest of my drive home, checked to see what I could do with my elbows. You really have to move way up in seat to work any controls.
He is kind of unarmed (intentional pun) for the normal Houston game of flip off the guy who just cut you off / offended you in some way.
Seen a lot of crazy things on the road, this may have the weirdest.
Do being the good Samaritan I am, caught up to truck, rolled down my passenger window and honked to gain drivers attention. He looks over at me with blank look as I point to bottom of him truck while mouthing the words "you're dragging something". He shrugs his shoulders like "What", so I make the motion to roll down the window. He obviously does not want to do it, so I empathetically make the roll down motion again.
At this point he does something that I have never seen before. As he does not seem to want to roll down the window, I am expecting anything from mouthed or gestured obscenity to showing me a weapon (this is in Houston, we all have one in our truck). Instead he raises both arms above the bottom of the window, where they have been out of sight and shows me that they both end just past the elbow. Guess he can't work the window controls with the stumps. I sit back amazed and for the rest of my drive home, checked to see what I could do with my elbows. You really have to move way up in seat to work any controls.
He is kind of unarmed (intentional pun) for the normal Houston game of flip off the guy who just cut you off / offended you in some way.
Seen a lot of crazy things on the road, this may have the weirdest.
