If you live in Austin, Texas and you knew that MOPAC stood for Missouri Pacific Expressway, then you are a fucking asshole for not telling me. Day in and day out I commute on this strange highway. Little did I know that when I decided to leave for work early so I could get my work done early, I had no idea what was about to happen. And I can truly say, this may be the closest to death that I’ve ever come, today.
I’ve pretty much lived right off BLOWPAC for several years now. It’s a strange highway, but it’s been pretty nice to take to work, I can get to work pretty fast, and my commute is under ten minutes. Mopac is pretty clean and smooth running for the most part. They don’t allow semi’s so I’ve heard, but every once in a while you’ll see them on there. So it’s a neat highway, 3 lanes on each side and pretty spacious for the most part.
I’m driving along this morning, listening to Rush, Moving Pictures, great fucking album. And I’m almost to work, smooth driving, it’s a really smooth drive where I can go pretty fast. Anyway, I’m just gazing over into the oncoming traffic and I see this white pickup with a gigantic piece of equipment on it, and something doesn’t look right. Yep, it’s jack-knifing. and oh fuck, it’s coming towards the median, and oh fuck, before I know it, it was like something out of a movie. I couldn’t have had a better front row seat of seeing a large piece of equipment attached to a trailer flip over and make it’s way towards landing on the roof of my car. This fucking thing was huge. And as I saw the truck jacknife, my mind is like, umm dude, remember grand theft auto when you SWERVE to avoid shit coming at you. Anyway, I didn’t even have time to shit my pants. And before I knew it I could feel this thing flipping towards me. Lucky for me it stopped right at the edge of oncoming traffic. The dust and debris flew behind me, I mean, I just missed this shit. So had it rolled a few more feet, and I didn’t react, I definitely would have gone head on with a gigantic piece of construction equipment. It was so bizarre, yet a clean accident, in my rear view mirror I could see the pickup truck, he didn’t flip or anything. The caterpillar digger thing, weighed so much it broke loose from the hitch. So then I got to work shaking, and realized how lucky I was. And it was strange because at work, since my address of my building is actually on MoPac, it says to spell it “MoPac” and that we don’t have to write out Mountain Pacific. Fuck me, I had no idea. And then I realized that my last place on this earth had shit gone down, might have easily been on Mountain Pacific highway. Not one person I work with knew what MOPAC stoood for, so it was fun to clear that up for everyone that’s lived in Austin for years.
On the way home there was another accident. And it made me think about safety. And asshole construction workers and truckers that take on dangerous loads, and thinking of how many peoples lives have ended because some fuckwad was too tired or lazy to make sure his ride wasn’t jeapordizing other people. A trailer on a highway is a fucking projectile death wish. You think a little shit car can stop a gigantic hunk of steel in tow? Think again, and it will take out everything in it’s path.
Missouri Pacific Expressway – May have been my resting place today
If you live in Austin, Texas and you knew that MOPAC stood for Missouri Pacific Expressway, then you are a fucking asshole for not telling me. Day in and day out I commute on this strange highway. Little did I know that when I decided to leave for work early so I could get my work done early, I had no idea what was about to happen. And I can truly say, this may be the closest to death that I’ve ever come, today.
I’ve pretty much lived right off BLOWPAC for several years now. It’s a strange highway, but it’s been pretty nice to take to work, I can get to work pretty fast, and my commute is under ten minutes. Mopac is pretty clean and smooth running for the most part. They don’t allow semi’s so I’ve heard, but every once in a while you’ll see them on there. So it’s a neat highway, 3 lanes on each side and pretty spacious for the most part.
I’m driving along this morning, listening to Rush, Moving Pictures, great fucking album. And I’m almost to work, smooth driving, it’s a really smooth drive where I can go pretty fast. Anyway, I’m just gazing over into the oncoming traffic and I see this white pickup with a gigantic piece of equipment on it, and something doesn’t look right. Yep, it’s jack-knifing. and oh fuck, it’s coming towards the median, and oh fuck, before I know it, it was like something out of a movie. I couldn’t have had a better front row seat of seeing a large piece of equipment attached to a trailer flip over and make it’s way towards landing on the roof of my car. This fucking thing was huge. And as I saw the truck jacknife, my mind is like, umm dude, remember grand theft auto when you SWERVE to avoid shit coming at you. Anyway, I didn’t even have time to shit my pants. And before I knew it I could feel this thing flipping towards me. Lucky for me it stopped right at the edge of oncoming traffic. The dust and debris flew behind me, I mean, I just missed this shit. So had it rolled a few more feet, and I didn’t react, I definitely would have gone head on with a gigantic piece of construction equipment. It was so bizarre, yet a clean accident, in my rear view mirror I could see the pickup truck, he didn’t flip or anything. The caterpillar digger thing, weighed so much it broke loose from the hitch. So then I got to work shaking, and realized how lucky I was. And it was strange because at work, since my address of my building is actually on MoPac, it says to spell it “MoPac” and that we don’t have to write out Mountain Pacific. Fuck me, I had no idea. And then I realized that my last place on this earth had shit gone down, might have easily been on Mountain Pacific highway. Not one person I work with knew what MOPAC stoood for, so it was fun to clear that up for everyone that’s lived in Austin for years.
On the way home there was another accident. And it made me think about safety. And asshole construction workers and truckers that take on dangerous loads, and thinking of how many peoples lives have ended because some fuckwad was too tired or lazy to make sure his ride wasn’t jeapordizing other people. A trailer on a highway is a fucking projectile death wish. You think a little shit car can stop a gigantic hunk of steel in tow? Think again, and it will take out everything in it’s path.
Anyway, glad to still be alive. It’s good to get a wakeup from reality every once in a while. It’s still hard for my mind to process, because every morning the traffic moves so smooth, you see cars whizzing by and get so used to it being safe, so when you see a gigantic piece of equipment flipping violently through the air, your mind is like, OMFG WTF!
Alright.
FAIL!