Things I have ALMOST run into on 183... ( and, of course, the one I did )

[svoloch]

• tire tread
• tire ( a whole tire, with a rim, fast lane )
• mattress
• shopping cart ( the full metal shopping cart, also fast lane )
• toilet plunger
• giant sheet of plastic flying down the freeway like a manta ray
• a busted up motorcyle helmet ( kickup up towards me by a semi )
• an assortment of boxes, trash bags, cardboard, and trash

and, of course, the one that DIDN'T get away, the block of wood that collided with the block of wood i refer to as a head 

I'll try to post up new 183 adventures as they come...   IZ_ Stranger, do you have any to add?  You drive the redneck highway also...

[caffeinejunkee]

and, of course, the one that DIDN'T get away, the block of wood that collided with the block of wood i refer to as a head 

Never had a woody on 183, but last week on 183--yes I ride the "redneck highway" as well--I had two cars come over on me, and I swerved around an unidentified , large piece of squashed metal (maybe a lid or box of some sort at one time). 

[Cyclone]

  Finally we're REALLY TALKIN' TRASH on the Forum !  

It wasn't on 183 but on LBJ I saw way up ahead cars ditching from the center lane like maniacs doing ANYTHING to move to the lane to the right or left of center nearly causing collisions as they bailed!  I got all the way over to the inside and illegally entered the HOV lane ( crossed the dbl line ) and watched carefully as this cluster beast2bsiding continued.  When I got up there a old time camper shell complete with a window unit AC sticking out the back had fallen off a pick up truck !  It was huge !

On 183 I saw a whole roll of chainlink fence up against the inside lane concrete wall divider at about loop 12 - easy to avoid on the bike but it was freakin the cages !

Svoloch - sent you a PM last weekend - you ever read those ?  

[Duc Fever]

I75 last week the car in front of me lurches to the right barely missing a large Desk, I missed it by about 2 inches. Then I had to go straight home and change my shorts!

[Duc L'Smart]

I75 last week the car in front of me lurches to the right barely missing a large Desk, I missed it by about 2 inches. Then I had to go straight home and change my shorts!

Holy Crap, Batman!

[Bonwilder]

Where in the hell is 183 anyway.  I think I will try to avoid this road unless I am in the big black truck.   (Seriously, I really don't know where it is, but I think we've ridden on it before, right, Tommy?)

[pipeliner1978]

Where in the hell is 183 anyway.  I think I will try to avoid this road unless I am in the big black truck.   (Seriously, I really don't know where it is, but I think we've ridden on it before, right, Tommy?)

A question like that should only be followed up with the story about your mom last night

[Kevin848]

A question like that should only be followed up with the story about your mom last night

[pipeliner1978]

dood, i would have to start a new thread just for this lady.  You all have no clue!

[Bonwilder]

A question like that should only be followed up with the story about your mom last night

Hey!  That is not the same thing at all!  But seriously, what she did last night was freakin hilarious.  I've been laughing about it all day!

[Kevin848]

Hey!  That is not the same thing at all!  But seriously, what she did last night was freakin hilarious.  I've been laughing about it all day!

Share?!

[pipeliner1978]

Share?!

Yeah, you can have her on Monday Wednesday Friday and every other weekend.

[dallas2r]

Yeah, you can have her on Monday Wednesday Friday and every other weekend.

[Bonwilder]

Share?!

You'd kinda have to know Burleson to get it, but I'll try.  Basically, we live behind the Albertson's shopping center off of Alsbury.  Tommy and I made it through the stoplight beside this shopping center, but mom got stopped at the light because, well, she's very slow.  Anyway, Tommy and I went on and pulled right into the neighborhood and went home.  We waited and waited at home and she never showed up.  We went inside and made the kids ice cream, came back outside and (a good twenty minutes later) she came putting around the corner.  (We didn't go looking for her because last time she stopped at Sonic and we thought maybe she got hungry again!  )
Anyway, she pulled up at our house, and said she had gotten lost.  Apparently, even though she saw TOmmy and I go straight through the light, and she was sitting beside a large shopping center that she shops at all the time, and lives behind - her internal map told her to turn left onto the service road and head south beside 35W (which she drives on to work everyday, BTW)  She was lost, in the dark, and still didn't figure out where she was when she passed Renfro St (where she goes to check her post office box several times a week).  She drove all the way down the service road feeling panicked until she came upon RV Ranch where Tommy and I used to live in the travel trailer.  There, she turned around and headed back down 35W north to the same intersection on Alsbury where she had originally gotten lost, and found her way home.  Seriously, our kids could find there way home from the Albertson's shopping center!  It was so funny, but Tommy says he can't ride with her anymore.  

[Ideapimp]

I once hit a wheel on 35 in Austin. It came off the back of a truck...like off the rear axle. It just kinda kept rolling down the street. I got pinned into my lane by cars on either side and I rolled OVER the wheel/tire as it rolled down the hwy slamming my car back down on the road.

Two flat tire changes later I was moving, but it wasn't pretty.