On a recent drive down a highway I noticed a small road that cut away from the main expressway.
“Hmm…that doesn’t look like an exit,” I thought.
And I was right. It was, in fact, a “Runaway Truck Ramp.”
Isn’t that comforting? Knowing that drivers so often lose control of their GINORMOUS trucks that there’s a ramp made special for the occasion.
When talking with friends about said ramps, in trying to make light of an obviously very serious topic, I asked if they thought it was for disenchanted trucks that ran away from home.
They said “that’s not funny.”
Then one proceeded to state a long-held desire of his:
“I’ve always wanted to hook up at the end of one of those. You know, like Inspiration Point or Lovers’ Lane on those old sitcoms like Happy Days.”
Interesting idea, friend. But what happens when, while you’re “parking”, a big ol’ 18-wheeler comes tearing up the ramp and bearing down on you? Huh? What then?
Or maybe it’s a bus? Are buses allowed on those things? What if there’s a runaway bus…and it has a bomb…and it has to stay above 50…and you mess up the whole thing ’cause you need to get some…and then Keanu Reaves steals your girlfriend…
How embarassing would that be?
On a scale of 1 to embarassing, it’d be like 7…