Loner here. I am a much better person alone than in a crowd. I can handle the wife and kids and my family but out of that I just dont care. I love this job. Talk to someone when you want or dont. My choice. There are days when I can stand and talk to anyone and there are days I cant stand it. To many ppl and I start getting nervous and frustrated. Now dont get me wrong sometimes I get on my own nerves but I can only stay mad at myself fr so long.

Every so often I just have to get away from everyone and everything I know and take off by myself. When I am home I have my motorcycle. Am I a loner? I would like to think so, but after 1 1/2 months away from immediate family I just have to get back to say hi and see what they are doing. Your parents aren't going to be around forever so I try to visit them everytime I can. I go home and get hit up by one brother to go and help him work on stuff and the onther only complains at me. I haven't been able to have one weekend at my parents house to do something I would like to do in the area so I have started going home less often.

I don't think of myself as a loner.. or a loaner,for that matter.

I'm just intolerant. I don't put up with jerks, whiners, drama queens, me firsters, ragers, tantrumers, self-proclaimed gods, power mad assistants, beggars, drug addicts, preachers, democrats, republicans, people who don't use turn signals .....the list goes on. Putting them together in bunches doesn't help at all.

To be honest... I have no idea what my wife sees in me - but she's seen it for 25 years.

In my truck, I can listen to MY music when I want to. I can turn the radio on or off to suit myself. I can even turn the CB on if I want to get a dose of what I don't like about people (though, to be fair, there's a smattering of good people on there,too). I can snore, and if the driver in the next truck doesn't like it, I can turn the reefer on.

I'm comfortable inside my own head (before you ask, yes, I have... most other people's heads have plenty of room for me to visit. I hate echoes in confined spaces. Hollywood dealt with it by putting foam over the microphone...not much you can do inside a head,though)

When I'm driving, I can devote time to creativity - like designing a small washer/drier for truckers. $4 a load for laundry is <ahem> highway robbery....

Anyway.. no, not a loner. Just picky about people with whom I'll associate.

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Keep the big doors at the back!

Hubby and I are total loners which one of the reasons we love this job. If I ever have to go back to the Corp Desk job of fake smiling and acting like you care about the crap
"the suits" are saying I think I will die!

Seriously, I think I would just die!

Technically, you are not alone so you wouldn't be loners. Let me consult the others in my head for a ruling on this one.

i have always been a loner thats y i started driving trucks the only people i talk to are my wife kids and family most people are two face anyways

Not me! One face! Muliple personalities!

Seriously though. I am the same way and I come from a family of truckers so we can all go weeks without speaking to one another and it's no big deal.

Wal-Mart, the people that shop there or both?

I look forward to being alone for long periods at a time. I enjoy the quite and spending time thinking.

What does your wife see in you? Your sense of humor, no doubt! You crack me up.

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