Never a dull moment

My husband has a lawn care service that he does every summer, and when I say lawn care I'm mean about 26 or 27 lawns once a week all summer long, and then of course fall and spring cleanup. Its a real family affare. We all help in some way. Well after 13 years of equipment braking down, working in the scorching sun, and several mishaps and very little time to play. We decided this was the year to cut back to about7 or 8. So yesterday started off the season without a hitch, do some leaf removal, trim some pompus grass, do some all around general cleanup, how hard could that be, accouple hour job, uneventful right, Wrong. It turned out to be a 3 1/2 hour job, truck was full of leaves and branches, trailer was so full we had to leave our riding lawnmower at the place we did and come back for it. So the hub took all the yard waste to the dump, came back home hooked up our littler trailer to our suburban (so he wouldn't have to bring the pickup truck and the big trailer back to town, with gas prices being what they are) got his faithful red ratchet strap and off to town we went. We picked up some takeout, loaded up the riding mower, strapped it and off we drove feeling so content in the fact that the first day of the season had gone off without a hitch, nothing braking, knowone getting hurt, no vehicle trouble, nothing. Yah right! what weed was I smokin(not literally) content soon faded to total embarassment as my husband rounded the turn to get on the main road and gunned it as our ratchet stap broke, which then proceeded to send the mower flying off the trailer and firmly plant it right in the middle of the road, as cars drove around us staring in amazement, my husband drove the mower back to the trailer and I picked up his ramps that had still been attached to the mower with bunge cords. After the red faces and the words like "how embarassing" and "what the F***"(this coming from the hubby) and the comment from the teen on how" everything happens to us" and "If someone drove by from school I'm going to be so mad" where finished we soon thanked the good Lord that knowone had hit it and that nothing had gotten hurt except our pride and a little metal peice on the mower that the hub said he could bend back with a B.F.H. If it had been during rushhour instead of around 7:30 who knows!!!