Newbie Team Driver Wannabees - Can We Do This?

I really loved the documentary, and I learned the same thing you did about drivers being unappreciated. I guess the lady and the tazer resonated with me most because it's one of my fears about being a woman out there. I didn't see any cut-out scenes or the making-of, I watched it on youtube. No, have not read any books by female drivers yet, sure, send titles ... thanks! I've only seen videos on youtube so far and whatever I could find on this forum, although I'm sure I missed some, this is a big place over here! Sometimes I can't find my own thread!

 

It's not a trust issue with us either, it's a safety issue.

I remember an incident once, quite a few years ago when we were out for the night with friends, eating and having a few beers in a very cool little restaurant/bar out in some little town up in Michigan. I excused myself from the table to walk to the ladies room, and I wasn't too far from the table when a 6 ft something, 260-ish pound, burly biker guy with a beard, wearing studded leather clothing and a bandanna on his forehead walked toward me, swooped me right up, tossed me over his shoulder and said, "I'm takin' this one with me." And without even breaking stride, out the front door he headed, right past my husband and our friends (still seated at the table), with me hanging over his left shoulder like a rag doll. It happened so fast that I hardly knew what was going on and I never had a chance to defend myself or even say anything! I saw my husband and his male friend get up from the table and quickly follow us outside. My husband ran out in front of the guy and said something about that he couldn't do that, I was his wife. The guy said, "not anymore, she's mine" and my husband, who was a bit drunk at the time (I'm laughing about it now), said, "I'll arm wrestle you for her." Now you have to understand that this guy was easily twice my husband's size, so I thought that was very brave of him (but also very dumb). But at least he was thinking pretty quickly for being intoxicated, I mean we were heading out the doorway to this guy's Harley and I was yelling "put me down, I said PUT ME DOWN", and the biker-dude was hearing nothing! So, they had a few words, came to an agreement to arm wrestle, and the biker-guy set me back on the floor (so he could whip my husband, I guess). Some other guys near the pool tables saw what was happening, created a distraction and began chanting, "ARM WRESTLE! ARM WRESTLE!", while waving their beer bottles over their heads ... and when the biker-dude looked toward them, somebody who worked at the place grabbed my hand and pulled me to safety. The worker guy told me to hurry and come with him, he pulled me behind the counter and through the kitchen door and out the back door. The police came a little while later, but I don't know what happened inside after I left out the back door, except that my husband said he and the biker dude actually did the arm wrestling thing, and of course my husband lost that one (very quickly, too!) ... and then the biker-dude wanted to know where his prize was, but I was gone. That's when the cops showed up, right on cue. Next thing I knew my husband and our friends were running out the back door, having been led out there by the people who worked there, we all ran our butts off as fast as we could, got into our trucks and threw gravel as we raced away. Oh. And we got free food and drinks, they didn't charge us, just said ... "RUN!" lol ... ah, those were the days.

But anyway, since I know that I can be picked up and tossed around like a rag doll, it's a safety issue for me.

My husband is also researching weapons that we can carry. We were at the TA truckstop a few days ago and I saw these little wooden bats that looked like short baseball bats and said maybe we might want to buy one of those ... they are not labeled as weapons, they're called tire thumpers or something like that? I think? I said, "Well, if you can thump a tire with that thing, I guess you could also thump someone across the head with it or break their kneecaps, right?" That sounds really bad, I've been playing too much XBox, Fallout 3 lately. It definitely works on those Super Mutants, a baseball bat or a nail board. I am Warrior Princess, Level 27 ...

 

OH! Well, now I know, too! Skull integrity ... cracks me up ... LOL

 

Thank you! I will get all of these books for us to read. We are especially interested in learning about leasing from people who have done that successfully. Too often, it seems that we see only bad comments regarding O/O, from those who did not have success trying it. I think it might be a good option for us after a couple of years of driving, but we have a LOT to learn before we go that route.

 

Oh yeah, I'm stealin' it too!