text: CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A portion of Interstate 77 will be shut down for hours early Friday morning after a tractor-trailer crashed, spilling thousands of potatoes across the highway. |
  This news story made me very sad as I am a huge fan of semi-tractor trailers loaded with potatoes. But when life gives you lemons, just make twice-baked mashed potatoes. Or compose a very bad limerick.
  A truck driver to sleep had forgotten
  hauling potatoes on I-77 near Wilkinson
  crashed into the guard rail
  causing engine to sail
  but 25 tons of au gratin