- Never eat at a place called Mom’s.
- Never ride close to another vehicle that advertises the driver’s name as Sixpack.
- Never pull into a dark, isolated interstate rest stop after dark.
- Never walk into a bar where the half-ton trucks parked on the lot have rifle racks and rifles hanging in the rear window.
- Watch your back in a parking lot.
- If the dancer says she needs a ride home, tell her yes, but watch your back on the way to the door.
- If you pick up a hitchhiker named Angel on an on-ramp on the interstate near Deming, beware that she doesn’t talk you into taking her to a folk festival on a back road off of highway 666.
- If it feels as though it might be time to leave, go with your instinct. It’s usually right.
- When you wake up and find yourself alive and riding on the wrong side of the yellow line, stop and take a break to live a little longer.
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