Merci, Merci, Merci! Wherever you are this morning I am thinking about the kindness you showed me yesterday. I hope you got your goods delivered and someone was waiting for you at home with a delicious meal and tender loving care.
See these kayaks on top of the car? This is not an action shot. The action photos would have included such highlights as one of the cords holding the boats into place flying off and becoming entangled in the wheel axel. (Another shout out to the elderly farmer on the dirt road in the Adirondacks who helped me get it out.)
Another might have been an hour later, after that cord had been reattached elsewhere (no one can accuse either the farmer or me of being engineers), as the blue kayak was flopping around the top of the car making horrible scratching noises and threatening to go off the side.
The best action shot would have been me driving south on Route 87 in upstate New York, with cars slowing down to drive along side of me, honking, and mouthing "YOU ARE LOSING YOUR BOAT!" through their window. Mind you, I still had several hundred miles to drive, and had a ridiculous image of myself with one arm out the passenger window, trying to hold the damn thing in place.
Finally, the French-Candian trucker, who had a big 18 wheeler and scared the living daylights out of me by boxing me onto the side of the highway, turned out to be a good Samaritan, who finally secured both boats on the roof. The whole trip ended up taking 7 and a half hours, but I did get home safely, both boats intact. They couldn't clear the garage, but that was the least of my problems.
Thank you, monsier. You are my hero.
Good for him! That kayak could have been dangerous on the road. Truckers drive huge vehicles that need a lot of safe maneuvering on the road, so helping you was a nice and responsible act of road safety.
Posted by: Duncan Moredock | December 22, 2011 at 08:19 AM