We were driving North from San Diego a few years ago going through L.A., my wife had taken the road to make a run by Randy's Donuts (a favorite stop the kids love to make) and I was heading up I-5. We had disconnected the car before the 5/405 split and I stowed everything, or so I thought.
About half way to Calabasas, a just past Disneyland, I noticed a young girl staring at us in a car as it past the MH. She made a motion that I didn't quite get at the time. When we stopped to hook the car back up, I found out that I never securely attached the safety cables after I disconnected them from car.
I had been dragging them behind me for over 60 miles and the only person that bothered to even try to tell me this? An elementary aged girl riding in the backseat of her parent's car. I wasn't surprised, after all it is L.A.! I did wonder if she actually noticed it or did her parents. In which case they must have said thing, but didn't bother to let me know.
Oh well, the cables are still useable, the road rash just made them nice and shiny.