Silveroddo
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Has anyone else experienced the Glendive Tractor beam? I once thought the phenomenon was a myth, perpetuated by college buddies, beer, and bad decisions. Now I am pretty certain it is a naturally occurring set of physical laws that heavily influence the geographic location one will encounter issues on a western road trip: Glendive Montana.
It started in college, a buddy coming back from a summer internship in Missoula shelled out a transfer case in an S-10 blazer and had to spend 5 nights In Glendive waiting on the repair. Not long after another set of buddies hit a deer and totaled out a Honda civic just out of city limits. They spent atleast 3 days in town before they were able to buy a replacement hoopty and make their escape.
For awhile I thought it was funny, I’d go through Glendive 3-4 times a year, sending pics to those buddies to rub it in. One day my luck changed however. Immediately following the harvest of my first MT mule deer I blew a brake line and had to limp into town and fix it in the Napa parking lot. In the last 10 years I’ve logged 2 other incidents, my wife broke her toe while we fueled up on the way through Glendive at the beginning of a 14 day trip, and last summer the one and only time I’ve had trailer brake trouble on our camping trips started in the turn lane going into Glendive.
I would tend to chock most of this up to coincidence, but eventually a neighbor (who isn’t generally prone to bad luck) had his own experience. He was headed out to Kalispel and lost a turbo on his eco boost in Glendive. After a day or 2 not knowing when or if it could be fixed he bought another truck to get out of town.
Sadly those aren’t all of the stories, but by now you get the point. Has anyone else experienced the Bermuda Triangle of the west? If not, what’s your Glendive?
It started in college, a buddy coming back from a summer internship in Missoula shelled out a transfer case in an S-10 blazer and had to spend 5 nights In Glendive waiting on the repair. Not long after another set of buddies hit a deer and totaled out a Honda civic just out of city limits. They spent atleast 3 days in town before they were able to buy a replacement hoopty and make their escape.
For awhile I thought it was funny, I’d go through Glendive 3-4 times a year, sending pics to those buddies to rub it in. One day my luck changed however. Immediately following the harvest of my first MT mule deer I blew a brake line and had to limp into town and fix it in the Napa parking lot. In the last 10 years I’ve logged 2 other incidents, my wife broke her toe while we fueled up on the way through Glendive at the beginning of a 14 day trip, and last summer the one and only time I’ve had trailer brake trouble on our camping trips started in the turn lane going into Glendive.
I would tend to chock most of this up to coincidence, but eventually a neighbor (who isn’t generally prone to bad luck) had his own experience. He was headed out to Kalispel and lost a turbo on his eco boost in Glendive. After a day or 2 not knowing when or if it could be fixed he bought another truck to get out of town.
Sadly those aren’t all of the stories, but by now you get the point. Has anyone else experienced the Bermuda Triangle of the west? If not, what’s your Glendive?
