Successful fix
In 1983, my then boyfriend and I travelled from Detroit to Pittsburgh, a trip of roughly 6 hours. Unfortunately it was during one of the biggest blizzards/ice storms the Midwest has ever seen.

The Ohio Turnpike was closed, something that had not happened in my memory and we were stuck on it, trying to find a way off. Most of the exits were closed as well, forcing us to go on. We should have gotten off after we passed several dozen (no exaggeration-I stopped counting at 100) jack-knifed semis, but no, a MAN was driving and he'd stop when hell froze over.

I suspect it did.

Finally in Strongsville, we could get off and find a Red Cross shelter set up in a local church. Thank God... Did boyfriend take the route recommended by the nice policeman-did he fuck! No, he plowed thru a drift so hard and icy it ripped the length of the muffler off the bottom of the truck.

The fix? Rummaging thru our luggage to find coat hangers and lying in the subzero snow to wire the muffler back on. I spent an hour in the freezing truck a half mile from warmth while buddy there lay diddling the muffler so he "wouldn't be embarrassed in front of all those truck drivers" when he drove to the shelter.

We spent the night in the shelter (thank you Red Cross) and arrived roughly 28 hours after we left. This was before cell phones so our friends were convinced we had died in the storm.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 7:14, 3 replies)

hehe...
diddling the muffler...hehehe
(bryo, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 12:44, closed)

thru [sic]
'turnpike' 'semi' 'cell phone'

My dear child, i think you will find it is an 'exhaust'.

*flounces*
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 13:39, closed)

You missed "plowed"
Just "truck" is foreign enough for me. :o)
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:07, closed)