Get together picks

well..its been a VERY LONG DAY!!!!!...it started about 7:30 this morning...went over my friend johns house(the guy who owns the carvel) and got his trailer but his friend borrowed it for carlisle and didnt bring back the straps...so i had to go back home drop the truck and trailer off,get the mini-van and go get them!!

got home,loaded the car,got the 4 girls,wife and emmas oxygen tank and left....my wife made HOME-MADE brownies and cookies,girls were all excited and of course,SO WAS I!!!!!!

i noticed my truck was smoking a little when i was going uphills and i almost turned around in west hartford and came home but my wife said it only did it when i got into it so to DRIVE NORMAL....everything was good till i hit the BIG hill going into CHESHIRE....i got into the SLOW lane and BARELY made it up the hill...it was getting a little hot but everything else was fine.

2 girls in a bronco pulled next to us and asked if everything was ok and i said,YEAH!!!....i got off exit 26 and was nearing the end of the ramp and the 2 girls was beeping and saying" YOUR TRUCK IS ON FIRE!!!!,YOUR TRUCK IS ON FIRE!!!!....i pulled over thru it in park,jumped out,ran around the truck and YANKED out emmas oxygen tank,my wife and the 2 girls were getting my daughters out and all of a sudden theres like 3-4 guys yelling"GET THE CAR!!!!,GET THE CAR!!!!,GET THE CAR!!!"

so we started to unhook everything and then i relized the key to the lock on the trailer is IN THE TRUCK!!!...i jumped in the firey truck, got the key,unlocked it,jumped BACK INTO THE TRUCK put it in neutral but it wouldnt come off the ball,the guys were jumping up and down on the truck and it finally freed up and i rolled it into the curb and the end of the ramp about 10 feet from the trailer.

my dad came down with his truck and towed me home!!

i want to thank the CHESHIRE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS, the 2 girls in the bronco,the guys who unhooked my trailer and a guy from danbury,LENNY SILVER(hangs out at MARCUS DAIRY)....he's the one who hooked my trailer to his truck and pulled it to a park and ride,then went down and got us some COLD sodas!!!

sorry for this to be SO long,but its been a LONG day!!!..im really sorry we missed it but i hope we can have a end of the year CAR-BE-QUE!!

im gonna try and get some pictures of the truck tomorrow in cheshire and ill post them(well,adam will for me :lol:)

later,mike