TWO ARMADILLOS AND A POSSUM
by Ronnie Reno
I know you know about "road kill." Well, with great trepidation, I caused my fair share on our trip to Arkansas a week or so ago.
The band and I had just left the festival in Waldron, Arkansas. It was around 10 pm when all of a sudden an armadillo tried to cross the road. He didn’t make it. But I don’t think he suffered because all I heard was the sound of a helmet hitting the under carriage of the bus. Then, 5 miles down the road, here comes another one…now the bus weighs 20 tons so you can’t stop on a dime, well, I’m sorry to say, another one bites the dust.
I was feeling bad about the two armadillo’s when I looked off to the right side of the road and here comes a possum…now he’s no faster than the two armadillo’s and the bus still weighs 20 tons, so…another notch on the steering wheel. The band started kidding me about trying to kill off the population of animals in the Arkansas region but I told them the state was known for Razorbacks and, for sure, I’d stop for a razorback.
We were riding along after that and all of a sudden my generator quit working and we had to stop and check it out. It looked like it was running hot so we put some water in it and it started back up. Everything was fine for about 30 minutes then it quit again. We were getting hot in the bus but we waited another 30 minutes and it cranked up again and ran all night.
The next morning I found out why the generator wasn’t running right. The Armadillo’s had knocked my plumbing lose from the under carriage of the bus and the gray water was being sucked up into the generator compartment and causing it to get hot. Well…nothing $500 doesn’t fix.
Anyway…the moral of the story…if two armadillo’s and a possum try to cross your path, have your plumbers phone number handy.
Until next time... Ronnie
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