Biggest tip you received

Dang you got me beat more than twice over. I got $20 from the conductor of the St. Louis Symphony. I delivered him some piano bench thing. I dunno what it was but lemme tell ya. He was ECSTATIC when I showed up with it. Borderline embarrassing. He's out on the street shrieking about how "gourgeousth" it was. But yea I'm with you, I'm not greedy when it comes to hired help, I'd be alright with one housekeeper.

 

some pretty big tips: dont play leap frog with unicorns, dont pee into the wind, dont eat yellow snow.

 

$40.00,I use to haul exoctic cars.1 motorcycle and this piticular customer I delivered a toy helicopter.We talked for a long while I was so overwhelmed by his beautiful home inside and out he gave me a tour and as I was about to leave he gave me and my co driver each $40.00.

 

“Blue Horseshoe Loves Anacott Steel”

 

$94 on $6 run when I drove a taxi in a resort town. $100 bill and "keep the change".

 

We had to get a load of oranges delivered. What had happened was a group of residents of about 30 homes had arranged for about 1500 pounds of oranges (About two or three pallets or so...) as part of a multistop LTL up the NE from Fort Lauradale Florida where it was loaded. We had delivered to a church (No problem.) a school, 20 lumpers their 6 pallets were off in 3 minutes easy. (Poor wife, all the boys went to her to get the boxes because it's a all boys school.)

This group of about 30 was a interesting group. They told me they would like my trailer, a full 53 foot reefer into one of the particular houses, at a two car port style driveway at the end of a culdesac, or a court. At night, 2 am waking up the neighbors and setting off car alarms too, you cannot move that kind of tonnage without shaking the ground.

I did my best to get that load into a particular angle to nurse it back into that one little driveway. It would not fit. The tractor is something on the order of 17 feet maybe, with a turning radius of 44 feet and the trailer's tandems were up forward and that overhang kept trying to take out a car and mailbox. I know they teach many things in school and they teach me many things over the years, but all of my experience up until that date which I considered top notch if not among the best there is at that time, just could not do it.

I pulled up halfway to the state road, parked and said to the group, maybe you have a couple of pickups, we toss oranges into those beds and you ferry it to that particular house. There are times that the 18 wheeler just wont fit and to try and force it despite 10 plus spotters just not going to happen. They showed up with 6 or 8 SUV's with opened gates and some minivans too. Way more than what is needed for the oranges.

For what's it's worth we did not get a tip, but the helpfulness of the people in working that orange load was something that redeemed almost a life time going into Hunts Point and all the other places up there. They showed how good New York can really be.

But what they don't have to know is that the final home stretch along route 9 with it's million stoplights every half a block was essentially my Mogadishu mile. Blew every light and speed limit and so on, the closest to absolute maxed hours personally that week round the clock operations on that massive LTL orange load. It's fortunate that the Law was asleep or off duty along that stretch of 9 that day. I don't feel very good about it at all but it all worked out in the end.

If it wont fit, don't force it. There is no point in breaking stuff and destroying goodwill. There may be future orange loads.

 

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