One time I was delivering a 6' long steel bar and in the process of trying to get it out the front door (car was blown out and I couldnt get thru to the back)I stumbled and ran that steel bar right through the middle of the passenger-side windshield.
The hole itself wasnt all that big but the entire windshield was cracked and crunched and it was impossible to see through. And I was right in the middle of a pickup route with only 30 minutes to go before the shuttle driver had to leave for the airport with our Next Day Air pkgs.
I couldnt safely drive with the windshield in that condition...so I borrowed a hammer from the customer and proceeded to smash the remains of the windshield out of the frame. It felt kind of weird, but it made sense; the glass itself was obviously beyond repair so I was merely doing the same thing that the mechanic would have to do in order to install a replacement.
I swept the little cubes of broken glass out of the cab, completed my pickups, met the airport shuttle driver on time, went back to the customers parking lot to
clean up the glass that I had left there, and then finished up my deliveries and drove back to the building with the passenger-side windshield missing. There were a few raised eyebrows and questions, but I never got in any trouble at all and my center manager was actually impressed with my ingenuity at avoiding a road call and making service on my pickups.