There are so many things I don't understand

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Last time I offered a 'extra set of eyes' cause site was 'tight' I got chewed out by lady driver......she had been a bus driver for 20+ years.

SO I pulled up lawn chair on my site for better viewing angle and WATCHED her smash front bumper on a boulder, whack MH tail on a tree and then dent compartment door an another boulder.

I still offer but doesn't take much to turn me into a spectator.

Well, "Old Hard-Tack" - you should have asked the lady bus driver if the bus she drove would bend in the middle (articulated?).

IMO - I would have made a second offer after she hit the 1st boulder.
Second refusal, you're on your own.

For my 30 year FS career, a driver was *required* to have a "back up" person on the tailboard.....no matter how talented you were.

BTW - those "lady drivers":
Went on a traffic accident once. Good looking gal had a fall off her M/C. Broke her wrist.

A week or so later she stopped by the station to thank the guys.
Several M/C riders there, and on chatting they found - not only was she polite & smart - she *worked* at a local Harley shop.

Figured she must be the clerk or counter person, and one asked what she did there.

No desk job - she worked in the *shop* because she wanted to learn M/C mechanics, but as the "newbie" she was the person to take the shop "wrecker" to pick up disabled bikes on the road or at owner's homes.

One of the guys jokingly asked if she could/would back his pickup w/boat on a trailer - into a spot for him behind the sta.
(NOT a pull-thru, LOL)

She said sure!
"I've got a Class A CDL with all the endorsements!"..:W

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