Nature Calls

I retired in 2008 and couldn’t wait to get on the road with our 37ft 5th wheel. I hated the cold winters and for years my wife and I keep talking about the time we could actually retire and become full timer RVers. Well believe me when I tell you the time comes fast enough, so don’t rush it. Anyways, for the first couple of times with our new RV we though we’d do a few runs to campgrounds we were familiar with and just get a feeling of pulling something so big. Things were falling into place and life was good. Real good. What is so good about pulling your own home is the fact you don’t ever have to pull into gas stations to use the restrooms. So I thought! Of course when nature calls I answer and quick…maybe too quick! This one lovely mid morning when nature called we had just passed a road crew, but nature was calling and I didn’t pay any attention to specifics of their work. Once I felt I could pull over onto the shoulder, I did so cautiously. As the truck was pulling the 5th wheel over I realized the ground had recently been worked on and the RV started to sink, tilting the side towards the ditch. My wife jumped out of the truck and ran across the road. I froze for a few seconds, enough to have my life flash in front of me thinking I was going to flip the whole works! Suddenly I hit the gas and slowly started to pull out of the mess I created. Once I was safe I looked out the side mirror and watched my wife running up behind. Getting into the truck I asked her why she jumped out, she coyly answered “Well there’s no reason one of us shouldn’t be alive to explain why you needed to pull over”. We still laugh to this day about it.

Submitted by Bert McCutcheon of Weller Bay, Carrying Place, Ontario as a part of the RV Centennial Celebration “Share Your Favorite RV Memory” contest.

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