Tree-killin truck driver.

So on the way back from my late breakfast at The Evergreen today (I totally overslept), there was a huge Subway delivery truck parked on Kittery, a very very small street with speed humps that intersects the busy street that both Subway and The Evergreen are on. The driver gets in, and floors the damned thing. He starts knocking small limbs from the trees in the street. And then we hear the sound of cracking wood.

If you’ve ever chopped or sawed dead wood, you know what sound that is. At the intersection of two very tiny streets (both of which have children playing on them all the time), this maniac ran into a damned tree. He split the trunk and bark, and I think he killed it. I say maniac because he was either cornering too fast or driving down a street with a 15 mph speed limit too fast.

I thought, “Screw this, I’m getting the number from the back of the truck.” I followed him on foot around the corner, and he stopped. Several people were pointing out what he did. One pointed at the tree. One pointed at the truck. And I almost laughed my ass off.

The moron tore the corner from the trailer of the truck. There was a huge gash and a strip of metal coming off which was about three feet long and flapping constantly in the summer breeze. No phone call necessary. He was sure as hell in trouble when he got back to wherever he came from.

He didn’t seem very bothered by it, and he sped down Keswick, snapping more tree limbs and running stop signs. I picked the branches up out of the street so no cars or bikes got damaged, and I found some of the insulation foam from his fridge truck. I hope nothing bigger fell off and hurt anyone.

And, you know, I hope he gets fired. People who drive big trucks like complete assholes should get fired. I know, I am (literally) a friend of the “working man” and all, but come on. That could have been a kid he ran over. Maybe some popos got him on his way to wherever he was going to crash into things next.