Stuck in a soup bowel

[Indiana]

I was taking my motor home to my parent’s farm to store in one of the barns for the year. I went down a hill and started going back up the other side when my wheels started spinning. Well, I am sitting at the bottom between to hills waiting for my dad to pull me out with a tractor. He has an extractor, which is one of those big all wheel drive tractors with 6 foot duals all the way around. Last time something like this happened he took picture first. I feel like putting a sign on the side saying, “no thanks, I have a wrecker on its way”. I don’t think a 4wd could pull me out anyway. This vacation has not been going well. My daughter wrecked the van; my wife’s car is in the shop getting the transmission replaced, and I am sitting here waiting for my dad to post pictures on the refrigerator at home. Well, at least my wires less is working so I could get help and I have something to do while waiting.



Indy

[ZR1BLAZER]

sound like my kind of luck. but i would be stuck with no phone. LOL

[Indiana]

Oh ya, I was supposed to take the family to the Bahamas over Christmas/New Years. The place we were going to stay at had a kitchen fire.

[ZR1BLAZER]

that sux! well at least you get to spend the holidays with the family. i will end up getting called out tomorrow or the next day. and probebly come home the day after new years.

[Indiana]

We got my camper out and there were no pictures. Just three neighbors riding with him.



I had a job that I was on call all of the time so I know how it is. I was the Director of Information Systems at a large pharmaceutical company for 13 years. Whenever the company was closed, we were at work. As soon as any major system failed, I would need to provide support and damage control. Although every job has its payoff, it is not fun working when your friends and family are out enjoying themselves.



Awhile back I asked if you knew of Miller Energy. A friend of mine (Mike Miller) has a company with his family that locates and drills for oil. His company is all over the globe. I thought that people in the oil business know of each other.

[ZR1BLAZER]

we are a sub contract company. like miller. so most of our work is done straight for the oil company itself. (chevron, shell, texaco and so on) so we really dont work with drilling companies. i do know that there are a million drilling companies out there though. i can think of about 2 dozen just in this area. LOL i have been looking on monster.com for a new job. maybe some where up north? i really dont want to move but i dont want to work directly in the oil feild anymore. i would like to find something were i can make a good living and be home every evening and have most of my weekends off http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif getting the wife to move is another story http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif

[knudsonm]

I would hate to have a soup bowel. LOL

[Scotty_S-15]

I was tempted to make a comment such as that..... http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif But I resisted, don\'t know how much longer I could have resisted... I figured \"soup bowel\" was something like diarrhea. http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif



........... ....Miller Energy?? Maybe a different outfit.... but I know them as industrial instrumentation type guys.

[Indiana]

Oh that is funny. I didn\'t notice until you said something. That brought tears to my eyes.

[s10maniac24]

could be worse, our neibor has had to use a tractor and chain on our vehicles 5 times! 1st time, 2yrs ago i got a little too happy with my gas pedal and got stuck in the snow. 2nd, we\'re unloading some stuff from hour van into the house.somehow, because of all the rain it got stuck in mud we didn\'t even know was there! 3rd(and 4th) later that week, my dad drove his truck down to a marsh behind our house to scope out the ducks, and buried the truck up to it\'s diff in mud. walked a half mile home, borrowed our neibors chain and got the other truck stuck in the attempt. 5th time............no comment.

[Scotty_S-15]

Every winter I have a ring-side seat for all sorts of silly slipping and sliding. I live on a slight residential hill, maybe 15 degrees, and I\'m on the inside of a sweeping curve, with a pretty good crown on the road. Soooo, when it gets icy.... all kinds of action. The things I haven\'t seen.

* An ambulance and a Township snowplow slid against each other, both stuck, neither could move, afraid of causing more damage.

* A hundred feet down the hill from my driveway, a young girl, so pissed she was stuck and could go no further, (heavy snow) floored her car until the tire actually burned up, smoke everywhere, finally blew out the tire... Do you think she stopped? No friggin\' way. Tire gone, she kept it nailed. Talk about persistent! Those grooves from the rim were in the pavement for years, until the road was recently repaved. Must have blown the trans or rear, towed away the next day. I felt bad for those poor spider gears working overtime for that hour or so that it took...http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif

* A schoolbus stuck directly in front of my house, slid up against my curb... for hours I keep hearing cars trying to go up the hill, then scraping noises as they slowly slide back down. Next day, there must have been a dozen busted car mirrors, & asst. chrome trim pieces laying in the street .... http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif

* It\'s amazing that almost no one will realize that once you come to a stop, it\'s over. Nope, they keep trying to get going from a dead stop, on a 15 deg. hill. Of course backing back down this hill is no picnic either, usually ends in a 4 wheel, brakes locked slow slide, completely out of control.

............. But this winter the jokes gonna be on me. They repaved the street this summer, and now I hardly have any curb left.... All those yahoos will be on my lawn.... http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif

[ZR1BLAZER]

thats going to suck.

[Indiana]

Which means your lawn will be torn up and you will get stuck with the bill.

[AF-s10]

mmmmmm soup bowels and tore up grass....I am sure there is a joke in there somewhere....Course my worst one http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif Had to be when the transfer case died in the blazer, in nebraska, in january. It kicked in fine on the way to wal mart, no problems, got done shopping, no more 4wd....got stuck. Two local guys plowing, first one (a chevy) pulled up, dropped his plow, and tried to give me a push.....he got onto it, melted the snow, and was basically doing a burnout....so here comes the 2nd truck behind him (a ford http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif ) and he has to unstick both of us, so needless to say, as a die hard chevy fan, it was a rough ride home with my head down, crying on my wifes shoulder......



But at least I made it home in one piece http://www.s10v8.com/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif