And You Think You Are Having A Bad Day ? ( A Small Town Story )

Outside of a small town , lived a man named Joe...
 
now Joe had a small place , not a lot of room ,
 
with the house and gardens taking up all room ,  
 
right up to the road...but that road was a dirt road
 
and during the winter it got soft and Joe got stuck  
 
in the mud more than once ;
 
 
So Joe decided to do something about it ;
 
 
He found some old hay for giveaway , but he had to take the whole huge pile ;
 
 
So he asked the neighbor Jim Bob , if he could borrow his huge truck , to do the job ;
 
 
Now Jim Bob had a glandular problem , and had just passed the 380 pound mark ;
 
He liked driving his truck , but he just could not get up in the cab anymore...so he  
 
let Joe borrow his truck , and told him to take good care of it...Joe promised , and  
 
went right to work...he got the hay ( huge load ) , laid a thick layer down on the road ,  
 
then layered that with stone , then did it again...but when he finished he still had  
 
all this hay ;
 
So Joe drove the truck to this stretch of empty fields , owned by the state...just as  
 
he was ready to start offloading the hay , along comes the local sheriff...he asks  
 
Joe what he is doing , and when he tells him , the sheriff tells him he can't do that ,  
 
as the EPA has declared that area protected , due to wild grasses and wildlife ;
 
So , Joe , not wanting trouble , drives around all day , looking for someone to take  
 
the hay , or somewhere to dump it , with no luck , until he all of a sudden , due to  
 
not knowing the truck , and being stressed and distracted , runs out of gas , on the  
 
side of the road to town ;
 
 
Problem is , this truck is so big and wide , it takes up most of the narrow road ,  
 
and no one can get by...Joe is done...he is tired , fed up , and puts his head on  
 
the steering wheel and is about to cry...all of a sudden there is this blaring horn  
 
behind him , and in shock , as he jerks up , his knee slams into the bottom of the  
 
truck steering wheel , and shatters his kneecap ;
 
 
He's screaming in pain , but through it , he hears Jim Bob , from his brother's  
 
Cadillac Convertible , ( with steer horns mounted on grill ) yelling at him to get  
 
out of the road in his truck , that he needs to get to town for medicine for his wife ,  
 
beer , cigars , and food ;
 
( Image result for Antique Cars with steer horns on hood )
 
Joe yells back to Jim Bob that he ran out of gas , and just smashed his kneecap...
 
Jim Bob , frustrated beyond belief , backs up the long road to the last intersection ,  
 
and drives to his sister's , to get gas , and her son , who can fit in the truck and drive  
 
it , once he gets Joe out , and into the car , so he can take him to the hospital , once  
 
he gets to town ;
 
So , frustrated , he is roaring up his sister's driveway , when she comes running out  
 
of the house , thinking there is an emergency...now she is not quite as big as Jim Bob ,  
 
but Sue is over 300 pounds , and as she runs / waddles like a duck on meth , she slips  
 
and falls on her back , fractures it , and rolls right under the feet of her son , who is  
 
deep frying a chicken outside ;
 
 
 
Well the next thing you know she is screaming in pain from not only her fractured  
 
back , but the burning oil , she and her son had splashed all over them , when he  
 
fell forward into the pot ;
 
 
 
Jim Bob gets out of the car as fast as he can , and in the process , falls over and  
 
breaks his leg ;
 
 
 
Jim Bob , frantic , gets on his cell phone and calls the ambulance...actually , three  
 
ambulances...the total the local hospital has...so , they arrive , after he has to hear  
 
his sister and nephew , moan , groan , and curse him out for driving like a maniac  
 
up the road in the first place...for a good twenty minutes ;
 
 
 
So the ambulances get there , get the son loaded , then the sister , then , as they  
 
are going to put him in the third ambulance , closest in the line to the front , they  
 
need extra help wheeling his gurney to the ambulance ;
 
 
 
( let alone it took four of them to get him balanced on the gurney )
 
 
 
So they are working together to get him into position , when the EMT from the
 
ambulance last in line in the driveway , with the keys in his pocket , slips on hot  
 
oil , slips under the gurney , and by adding his weight to the overburdened
 
gurney , it collapses on top of him , with all of Jim Bob's 380 pounds , and kills  
 
him on the spot...doesn't even have time to scream ;
 
 
 
Now it is bad enough he is dead , but now they are all blocked in , as the keys to  
 
the ambulance , are in his pocket , under the gurney under Jim Bob ;
 
 
 
Now I'm not even going to go into how they had to deal with all this , or how the  
 
EMT happened to be the sheriff's nephew , or how the chief surgeon at the hospital
 
 happened to be Joe's brother  
 
( and of course Joe was all forgotten with his shattered kneecap , in  
 
the truck out of gas on the side of the road , due to the craziness )  
 
or that the best personal injury attorneys in the county , happened to be a husband
 
and wife team , related to the sheriff and Jim Bob's families , going through

a messy  
 
divorce ;
 
Let's just say...life can be heaven or hell , in a small town...;)