Bake at 350

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Written by Paul Roy

You know you are going to be in for a long day behind the dirty windshield of the tow truck when you start work at 6:00 AM and at 6:05 a tractor trailer turns over. Which is exactly what happened yesterday.

It seems that one truck lost something off of his truck and a second truck (carrying a trailer full of baking flour) hit the piece of metal, blew his tire and then managed to tip over, spilling flour all over the road. So of course we had to take care of this problem. Sometimes you just have to rise to the occasion I guess. The good thing is that after we baked in the hot sun, sweating our buns off, we made a lot of dough.

The Fire Department rolled in quickly, adding water to the situation which was already heating up. They had the half-baked idea that they could wash thoroughly before handling food products. As for me, I just sat in my tow truck baking in the hot sun. The air conditioner is broken in the truck so it is very much like an oven. I was wearing my shorts though, which helped until my legs got burned.

Unfortunately because of this accident, drivers attitudes could be characterized as being on a slow burn on the interstate. I am sure more than one person had to place some of their holiday schedules on the back burner for 30 to 45 minutes until a golden brown.

As a result of the road being blocked, traffic had to roll onto some of the side streets, which caused clogged arteries elsewhere in the area. I took awhile for it all to pan out, in fact, because of the accident, there were several more accidents. People please doughnut rubber neck at accidents.

We had the mess cleaned up early in the day but not before we had a fore-shadowing of how the rest of the holiday weekend might go.

Denny

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