Re: [RC] Endurance, Carolina Style: Part Two - Heidi Smith
> I've come to notice,
after all these years attempting to do endurance, that it's usually the male who
backs up the rig. Wimmen don't back horse trailers for some
inexplicable reason; they'd rather circle the wagon, no matter how far they
have to travel or how many trees they need to take out, to get the rig pointed
in the direction they want. The letter "R" on their transmission stands
for "rather not."
Howie, you've been around too many of those
hot-house Scarlet O'Hara suthrun gals. Come out West, where men are
men and wimmen are truckers! I got my first lesson in trailer backing
before I had a drivers' license, and I had to get a trailer out of a skinny
driveway early in the morning to get the irrigatin' car out. Took me a few
minutes, but I got the thing out around a 90-degree bend, and I've been backin'
my own rigs ever since. And I've been known to back up a few rigs in ride
camps when the suburban men drivers couldn't get 'em in the right places,
too... :-)
Heidi (who just backed her gooseneck through a
tight service station in Foresthill, CA, a couple of days ago, to let out a Lay
Potato Chips truck that got trapped at the pump...)
