Me and the Michigan State Police

That is my car, the white thing hanging down is the airbag, there are 4 side airbags and all 4 deployed.

And that is the lovely lady's vehicle, the lady with orange hair who caused this entire debacle.

So my plan today was to write about the 400 pound woman in size medium sweat pants at CVS. She had a quart of Rum down the front, and in my neck of the Woods, GPW, the cops are on this in a heartbeat. And yes they pulled them out of her pants in the middle of the check-out line.

But no, let us get back to the photos. I am driving down I94 Eastbound in the rain. There is no traffic and life is good. Then I see this vehicle behind me on the left start to swerve and fishtail. It looks like she might recover and then it looks like she is going for the cement barrier in the median. I am hoping for the best when the exterior parts start breaking off and flying and I think I may be okay. And then boom, in a sec I know I need to get to the side of road and thank God I make it.

Now I find I cannot get out of the vehicle. Cannot unlock the door and the door won't work. It is raining. This really nice guy pulls over and asks if I am okay. I tell him yes, but I cannot get out, can he open the door. He tells me there is no handle. Whoa. I crawl out the passenger side and he checks again if I am okay and he leaves.

I see all these vehicles in the middle and right lane of the freeway, I am on the left median and it is raining. I called Big Daddy and told him and asked him to come save me. Then I thought I should call the police. The lady who hit me was on the phone when I crawled out of the car but she started walking toward the side and ran up the embankment and went off the exit ramp on foot. So I called 911. They told me they had reports and to wait, the State boys were on their way.

I forgot my gloves when I crawled out and it was cold and raining. About 40 degrees. I thought maybe if I sat in the back under the liftgate it would be better. The liftgate was already open. I found a garbage bag I keep hidden in the back and sat on that so I did not get my pants soaked. It took 30 minutes for the police.

I thought it was a 4 car crash. The other 2 people sitting behind the beotch's vehicle were witnesses who waited for the police. I never talked to them as I could not get to them with the traffic in the rain. They stayed and waited. They told the police the orange haired lady was invited to sit in their cars and wait. She ran away.

Maybe because she had no license and warrants for her arrest. And she decided to drive a car licensed in her name down the freeway in the rain. Maybe that is why she has no license at this point in time,smarts are not in her gene pool.  I wonder how she is gonna find out where her vehicle is, it was a decent car. And hardly damaged, I mean it was drive-able not like my poor mess with all those airbags hanging all over the inside. By the way, the airbags are really hard after they deflate and it is hard to get out of the vehicle underneath them.

So no car for me until after Christmas. And I am blessed to be fine.  And a Ford Escape is a damn fine vehicle.

Sometimes I am amazed the vehicle is driven off the line

This is all new plants, I pulled up the "penis plants" as they were no longer amusing.

This is how the assembly line works. We ship in parts, they are put on the line, operators put them on the vehicle and when everyone is done---they start up the vehicle and drive it to the test area. Every vehicle is tested and checked and then there is a special audit to make sure everything is fine.

If there is a problem with the special audit vehicle that is a horrible thing and special measures are taken because all this is done with percentages. This is the meeting that people are know to vomit before they go in.

So today my highly paid customer engineer in charge of special shit sent out an email to everyone asking what part numbers are right hand and what part numbers are left hand. This is written in stone and never changes, odds are one side and evens the other side. Boom, you are done. How sad is this?

Then my own company that is shipping more shit than is possible told me they cannot change the cert mark to a new mark because it would confuse their operators? How am I supposed to tell the customer we can't certify good parts because our people are too confused?

Best of all, there was an accident at a plant and people were badly hurt. This happens at least once a year and it is horrible. When this happens there is a big push on safety and everyone gets re-trained and it is pounded in how important safety is. The union has resumed their daily walk to make sure safety is a priority. So I am standing in the safe area and waiting for my parts. I was there 45 minutes and 6 union reps asked if I was the supervisor. Don't look like one, act like one, resemble one, don't have a radio, so nope not me. I guess the union people don't get out much.