'Twas a New Jersey Car Accident or Personal Injury Waiting To Happen

I was on my way to work this morning at 7:08am and I was on 78 near Union New Jersey when I heard a pop and the engine started smoking. Being the cool guy that I am, I checked that I was clear on my right hand side and eased the vehicle into the "distress lane". I remembered that I left my cell phone home, so it was sit there and wait for a New Jersey state trooper to come to my aid. Well, a New Jersey state trooper never came but an older gentlemen did pull up, in an emergency vehicle. let me use his cell phone and called a tow truck. He said the tow truck may come in 15 minutes or it may come in an hour.

The tow truck came: See photo:



This is what pissed me off: This is my brothers "vehicle". He was going to Florida and needed me to take him to the airport at 4am Sunday nite/Monday morning. So that he did not have to pay for a cab ($45 to LaGuardia) he asked me to drive and told me to use his car to drive to work. Now, I was just fine taking the train althought it was 110 - 120 minutes each way but it was stable. If you tell me to use your vehicle, wouldn't it have been nice to let me know if there were existing problems with this vehicle?

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I was looking at the vehicles zip by me at 70 - 100mph and noticed that some of them were a little bit too close, so I got a "America's Craziest Vehicle Crashes While Waiting on 78 For A Rescue Vehicle" video flashback, so I moved over to the passenger seat and invented brand new, never before heard curse words about my brother. I could have been in a car or auto accident in New Jersey. Wait, there were more tractor trailers coming too close to me, so I would have been in a truck accident in New Jersey and where I did move to the passenger side, I would have suffered some sort of personal injury on this New Jersey highway and it made me think about what safety measures to take when a. your brother gives you a vehicle to drive to work in, that was Nissans first ever test vehicle made and b. where could I find such safety information on the web.

It does not go without saying that my brother is like the Collyer Brothers with his vehicle. Enough already! Let's throw this car away and get a new one! There was one thing I have always said I will never borrow: someones underwear. Now there are two: any of my brothers' vehicles.