(was) played out in front of me in a gas station this am. As I was filling up for gas, my wife and daughter went inside to get some drinks. In the road in front of me, a truck pulling a trailer slowed to pull into the station to fuel up, but was rear ended by an SUV who hit the trailer.
Both drivers were pi#$'d. As the truck driver was entering the first gas station entrance, the SUV driver sped around to make the second gas station entrance to chew out the truck driver. The truck driver hit the gas to pull around and meet her.
Game on.
In the heat of the moment, the truck driver throttled the truck up and flew through the pumps (probably at a good 15-20 mph), and forgetting he was towing a trailer, cut the corner through the pumps too close. The trailer clipped the gas pumps steel security stops, and about tore the rear wheel off. The entire trailer jumped into the air, the air condition unit on the trailer jumped across the bed, the rear axle just about got torn off, the rear tire exploded (well- at least popped the bead) and the rim got completely demolished.
This lurched the truck to a complete stop, and as the truck driver was running back to survey the damage, the SUV driver was speeding into cut him off. The SUV driver jumped out of the car and began yelling. They got into a heated exchange. Out came the gas station attendant, only concerned the pumps were not damaged. I was caught semi-between the two, on the other side of the pumps.
I walked quietly around the back of the carnage, got my wife and kid, informed them NOT to say a word or look at anything, we walked well clear to the back of the trailer, got in the car and skipped town quicker than when Chevy Chase took that wrong turn into the bad neighborhood on the movie "Vacation"
The funniest thing, in retrospect, was the truck driver's companion, who just opened his door, and started chomping down on some chicken Mcnuggets while the whole thing went down. He didn't have a care in the world.
The SUV driver sped off. We drove off. The truck driver's companion kept chowing on his fast food. And the truck driver seemed like nothing had happened.
And before you can say "Pics or it didn't happen":
