accident #2

ok, so it's the second day of our second trip of the year.  last trip i accidently made the gas stove explode, and well, this time i had another little accident. this trip is quite a bit bigger than last time, about 175 people more. so instead of having one worksite, we have 7.  so i'm pretty much just running from worksite to worksite all day.  one of our worksites happens to be on the old dump.  so just picture unbelievable amounts of trash piled up and then covered with a thin layer of sand.  so i'm driving out to check on this group and as soon as i get there i find out they have no chicken wire.  ok, let me call dustin and i will be back asap with some chicken wire.  

it's important to know a couple things...  first, i am driving a very large, old, dually chevy truck.  it's great for loading materials in, but it is extremely heavy and does not have four-wheel drive. this can be a problem when driving in the sand (which is what the majority of the roads here are).  so i'm on the phone with dustin, and reversing.  seems ok, but i tend to do stupid things when i am trying to do too many things at once.  so i'm backing up through the sand and trash, and i happen to be a little to the right of the beaten path, but that's ok because i only have to back up about 20 more feet and i'll be on the road and can drive forward.  so i'm on the phone with dustin and he's telling me to go wherever for the chicken wire..."ok ok i'm on my way...waoh!  ooooh my gosh!"  i've fallen back, truck included, and now 

i'm stuck.  dustin says he'll be right there (assuming i just got the truck stuck in the sand again).  i, however, know exactly what happened.  i just backed this dually truckinto a hole.  a 4 foot deep, 4 foot wide, 8 foot long TRENCH!  are you kidding me?  did this seriously just happen? 

i get out and am in complete shock.  the mexican ladies come running, the kids following behind, and the entire crew that is waiting for chicken wire is staring in awe.  after lots of hugs, lots of laughing and maybe a few tears, dustin shows up.  "THIS is what you got stuck in?!"  now i don't know if he actually said that out loud, but i know that's what he was thinking.  he just laughs and avoids eye contact so i don't really start to cry.  so while he figures out what to do, 

i run with erin to find that chicken wire. i get back to the scene of the accident and just watch as dustin and three other guys decide how to get this truck out.  i think they actually enjoyed this part.  three tow straps, two heavy duty trucks, one suburban,  and a 15 foot chain and this beast of a truck is back to where it should be.                                                                     (pic of tow strap one breaking) 

the kids then made it their job to fill that hole with as much sand and trash as they possibly could, so that would never happen again.  so in the end, everything turned out

 ok.  the truck works fine (surprisingly), no one was hurt, there were some good laughs and the guys enjoyed putting the strength of their trucks to the test.  we made a memory, and now i have another story.  i love stories.  i just don't know how many more memories i want of me looking like some ditzy blonde american girl.