To the good samaritan on I-29 in South Dakota yesterday

just left the storage yard when a small pickup flashed lights,thinking worst ,what's wrong tires toad etc.told me I had a set of keys in compartment door whew what a relief ken

phenrichs wrote:
I have family and quite a few friends in Estelline. Lots of good folks around there.

my wife's family has been in the Estelline area since the 1880's .... we spend 2 - 3 months out there in our camper every summer .... sure hate it that we are on our way back to the heat and humidity of NC

Jim

If you decide to be a Good Samaritan though, PLEASE use some common sense!

On our way back from Ohio yesterday pick up our "new" (and first!) RV, we could see in the distance a 5th-wheel pulled over on the right shoulder with someone along the drivers side (between the truck and the right lane of traffic!) fiddling with something. Folks slowed down for the most part, some got over to give room. One guy in the left lane I guess thought he would be the hero and stop to help, and did a panic stop into one of the emergency crossovers that happened to be there. This nearly set off a multi-car accident and the other vehicles in the lane reacted. A couple ended up diving for the shoulder even.

As for the original trailer stopped - as soon as we got up on it we could see the fuel nozzle from the bed mounted tank in use, transferring fuel. Pretty sure he didn't need help.

The message here? Don't make the situation worse! Swooping in the lend a hand sure isn't worth it if you end up causing an accident in the process. There was no fire (or smoke) making it a life or death situation, but it almost turned into on in the process.

JEBar wrote:
for the last couple of months we were camped about 70 miles north of Sioux Falls at the Estelline City CG .... day before yesterday when we were hooking up getting ready to head down I-29, my wife lost her camper keys .... after about 30 minutes of looking we asked the lady on the site next to us to keep any eye out for them .... later that evening we were setup in St Joseph, MO we got word the neighbor had found the keys, turned them over to the lady who runs the city office, who called and gave them to my wife's sister-in-law .... they are now in the mail on the way to us .... South Dakota folks are special and small town USA is hard to beat

Jim

I have family and quite a few friends in Estelline. Lots of good folks around there.

Salute to a real camper

for the last couple of months we were camped about 70 miles north of Sioux Falls at the Estelline City CG .... day before yesterday when we were hooking up getting ready to head down I-29, my wife lost her camper keys .... after about 30 minutes of looking we asked the lady on the site next to us to keep any eye out for them .... later that evening we were setup in St Joseph, MO we got word the neighbor had found the keys, turned them over to the lady who runs the city office, who called and gave them to my wife's sister-in-law .... they are now in the mail on the way to us .... South Dakota folks are special and small town USA is hard to beat

Jim