# Overturned truck last night on I-95 stole my precious time! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664 "2002-11-25T14:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/1 "2002-11-25T14:38:49Z")
I was visiting friends in DC this past weekend. On my way home, a truck had overturned near Elkton, MD, causing a major backup on I-95 northbound. I got stuck in that backup. For over an hour. Trying to get to the detour so I could get OFF the highway and take a secondary road. So I have a message for Mister (or Missus) Truck Driver Person: Your incompetence with your truck cost me an hour of my life, and I WANT IT BACK! And I tried to wait out the delay at the Chesapeake House rest stop, where I ate the greasy food there, so you also cost me at least ten points on my cholesterol! And a quarter inch on my waistline, too! Go back to driving school, you twit! If you can’t handle your truck well enough to keep it upright on a GENTLE curve with a SLIGHT upgrade, you shouldn’t be on the road! Repack your truck, drive carefully, or else turn in your fucking driver license! I hope your shipping company fines your ass for everybody’s lost time! You cost this country at least a few THOUSAND hours of productive Sunday-Night-Football watching! ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/2 "2002-11-25T14:41:18Z")
Aren’t parodies supposed to be linked to the object of mockery? that WAS a parody, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/3 "2002-11-25T15:40:39Z")
I have a sickish feeling that was no parody.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/4 "2002-11-25T16:11:03Z")
It’s either a subtle parody, or the poster’s self-absorption titres have gone right through the roof. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/5 "2002-11-25T16:37:33Z")
I plead inexperience. It’s my first Pit rant. There’s no link because my local paper didn’t report on a traffic incident two states and more than an hour’s drive away. Now that I reread my OP, I acknowledge that the last line wasn’t entirely serious. But still, I was stuck in traffic for over an hour, got home late and tired, and I’m no big fan of the food at Chesapeake House. So maybe I did overdo the rant. I don’t _think_ I’m normally self-absorbed. But this is the Pit, so I ain’t apologizing. Instead, I’ll try to do better next roast. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/6 "2002-11-25T18:51:59Z")
As you presented it, it just seems to be a case of one person’s disaster (and possible tragedy) inconveniencing you. But feel free to rant away. By our rant subjects are we known here. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/7 "2002-11-25T21:07:23Z")
Wow. The selfishness of some people astounds me still. Scuba, get some perspective, man. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/8 "2002-11-25T21:35:44Z")
You know, you guys are coming down on poor Scuba for being selfish in the face of tragedy but have any of you ever actually _eaten_ at the Chesapeake House? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/9 "2002-11-25T22:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > \*\*Scuba, get some perspective, man. \*\* I’m working on it. I’ve got anger-repression issues, among other things, so I don’t do much to relieve my tensions. I usually just let it bottle up. What did I learn from this excursion into the Pit? If I feel I must rant, and I don’t really need an Internet-wide audience, I can probably rant just as well – and possibly just as effectively, for my own sake – by writing out the rant and then shredding it. (Forestalling a begged question – yes I am getting help on my issues.) ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/10 "2002-11-25T22:08:38Z")
Well now, I see where Scuba is coming from, sort of. I mean, it’s horrible that the driver went through that, and I hope he is not injured. But sometimes when there are accidents and tie-ups I suspect it’s because some driver insisted on being an aggressive jackass. Or a moron. And that gets me fuming. It ties me up in traffic, it gets people hurt, it uses police resources, it costs me in insurance premiums… Accidents are no laughing matter and I know some of them are blameless. But when people drive like dickheads and cause damage because of it, I send a little ire their way and some of it is selfish in orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/11 "2002-11-25T22:15:03Z")
Scuba, what would you have done with that extra hour at home? Was it that big a waste or just boring? ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/12 "2002-11-25T22:54:57Z")
Who cares what he was going to do with it? It was his time. I’m with **Cranky** here. She’s right, I mean, we don’t dance with glee over the thought of violent deaths, but all the same, I’ve sworn at traffic jams because of accidents for no other reason than I wanted to be home on time, or to work on time, and so on. And I’ll do it again. Because I wanted to fucking be home on time. With as many asshole drivers as there are, I’m surprised (and thankful) that there aren’t more accidents. ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/13 "2002-11-25T23:06:11Z")
OK, I see how it might be self-absorbed to get upset when there has been an accident with unseen consequences that delay you through no fault of your own. But it still can leave you frustrated and upset and there is nothing wrong with ranting a bit about it, especially when there almost certainly was someone at fault for their careless driving. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/14 "2002-11-25T23:14:23Z")
Did you get home in time for the end of the game? A 54 yard FG to send it in to OT, and a 51 yarder to end it in OT. In the snow too. Go Colts. And I too hate it when people overturn their trucks and endanger their lives and others. Not to mention cost another person an hour of his time. The nerve of the truck driver. Are you thinking of sueing to cover the cost of your lost hour? You may have a good case. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/15 "2002-11-25T23:41:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > \*\*Who cares what he was going to do with it? It was his time. > > I’m with **Cranky** here. She’s right, I mean, we don’t dance with glee over the thought of violent deaths, but all the same, I’ve sworn at traffic jams because of accidents for no other reason than I wanted to be home on time, or to work on time, and so on. And I’ll do it again. Because I wanted to fucking be home on time. > > With as many asshole drivers as there are, I’m surprised (and thankful) that there aren’t more accidents. \*\* I agree completely. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/16 "2002-11-26T01:11:13Z")
While all of you are ranting about missing the Simpsons, I’ll be on the side of the road with a cell phone and blankets. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/17 "2002-11-26T03:32:10Z")
Do like the idiots do here, just drive off the freeway and over the grass or whatever the Hell is in your way until you get to open road. Or if that plan doesn’t work, blast down the shoulder and then squeeze your ass back into traffic at the last possible moment. It works better if you’re driving a gigantic pickup or SUV. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/18 "2002-11-26T03:36:34Z")
Well, I should say, I have seen many little-cars-that-thought-they-could, but that at least makes the traffic j jams more interesting when I can sit there and watch that Ford Focus or whatever get stuck in the mud. There’s assholes, and then there are clueless assholes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/19 "2002-11-26T03:47:25Z")
Totally agree with **Cranky**. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664/20 "2002-11-26T04:12:18Z")
So often I’ve seen truck drivers on 95 drive aggressively. Often it’s not a huge pileup, it’s one truck whose driver lost control and skidded only partway off the road, stopping traffic for eons. That’s just not right. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overturned-truck-last-night-on-i-95-stole-my-precious-time/138664.md?page=2)