The Long Red Light

The Coach's Team ^ | 5/26/18 | Unk

[Oldpuppymax]

Hat Tip: karinsue 1

I was sitting at a long stop light yesterday, thinking about what I would do to keep busy during retirement, minding my own business and patiently waiting for the light to turn green, even though there was no on-coming traffic.

An old Nissan full of bearded, young, loud Muslims, shouting Anti-American slogans, with a half-burned American Flag duct-taped on the trunk of their car and a "Remember 9-11" slogan spray painted on the side, stopped next to me.

Suddenly they yelled, "Allah Akbar! Praise Allah! Death to America" and took off before the light changed.

Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler truck came speeding through the intersection and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and killing everyone in it.

For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself, "Man?..that could have been me!"

So today, bright and early, I went out and got a job as a truck driver!

[SamAdams76]

Crispy Critters is probably the best C.W. McCall song of them all.

[deport]

LOL..........

Good one.

[elcid1970]

Have you been on CB lately? I carry my Dad’s 1975 CB radio; in case of backups on interstate it’s the only way to find out where the wreck is. In the seventies nobody used profanity & got chewed out on the air if they did.

Today? Foulest language I’ve ever heard, as the truckers complain about deadlines missed, etc. When someone comes on with a mile marker & description, it means take the next exit to anywhere. Better than sitting in traffic.

More often, traffic backed up for miles & when you reach the wreck scene, the vehicles are already cleared off the roadway & now the delay is due to rubberneckers. Geez!

[moovova]

"The Long Red Light"

Sounds like one of John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee" novels.

[Impala64ssa]

Back then you didn’t hear much foul language from the “bucket mouths”, supposedly you could’ve been fined by the FCC if they caught anyone cussing. But they were good for avoiding traffic jams and also for getting directions, kinda like a primitive GPS.

[sparklite2]

I love it.

[trebb]

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