OMG, I love my boyfriend more than anyone in the whole wide world, but I wonder what the hell goes through his mind sometimes. 

He just called to inform me tonight that he was driving down some trail in his jeep with his buddy, just having finished their last day of special training when all of a sudden a flash flood came through.  They were apparently driving beside some river, which was apparently a trail that was for walking or jogging only, no driving, but the entrance they came through, did not have a sign saying no cars aloud.  Did I mention this is a wild life preserve?  Oh yes.  So, this flash flood comes pouring down, he has his windshield wipers going as fast as they can and all of a sudden the next thing he knows he is in the middle of the river, jeep filling up with water.  He and his buddy roll down his windows and get out, trying to grab on to branches for support (luckily in their training, they had swim survival and they were both strong swimmers to begin with).  They drift down river for about 100 yards before they can really grab onto something.  Three hours, two tow trucks later they pull his jeep out of the river completely water logged.  I’ll admit that this time it was not totally his fault, but this is the third incident within the last three months with his NEW jeep (he’s only had his jeep for about 4 months and he bought it brand new).     

The incident previous to this one was about a month ago.  He and his friend were bored one weekend and decided they wanted to go off roading.  So, everything was fine and dandy (according to them), they were tearing it up in the woods, on farmlands, but they had no care in the world, because they were having a blast.  Well, on the way back to their place, they saw this huge strip of mud and they wanted to splatter through it.  As my boyfriend steps on the gas, he gets about one- third through this massive mud puddle/strip before the weight of his jeep starts to sink through the mud.  It was about 5 feet deep, 4 feet deeper than he had expected.  His jeep becomes stuck in some mud on this farmer’s land.  The farmer sees these two mid-twenties men and their jeep stuck, comes running over yelling at them, threatening to call the police for trespassing in his property.  My boyfriend and his friend are trying to shovel the mud to get his jeep unstuck, but it is useless.  The neighbor farmer comes over and starts to help the boys, but he doesn’t have a tractor, the farm who’s land they got their jeep stuck on does.  The neighbor convinces the farmer to help the guys pull out their jeep with his tractor.  The cop that the farmer had called, comes by, but sees the farmer pulling the jeep out with his tractor, the farmer waives at the cop and he drives on through.  The jeep is out, the guys don’t go to jail, and everything is A-ok.

The first incident with his new jeep was when he first left for training.  Within the first week he was there he drove his jeep on the beach.  On the beach where his training is, no cars are aloud, it is another wildlife area, but again, where he drove his jeep in, there were no signs stating he could not drive on the beach.  This time his jeep did not get stuck in the sand or water, but the cops pulled him over on the beach for driving when it was illegal.  The military suspended his driving until he could appear in front of a court.  He proved his case (that even the track marks of his jeep never went near a sign that said no driving on the beach), and he got his driving privileges back, again, no jail time. 

Lucky duck!   …but seriously, when will he learn that a jeep is not invincible?  Nor is he?  Urgh, boys and their toys!