Back on the road. Lease purchase with JB Hunt

??? You do laundry??? Did you run out of underpants?

 

The Honey syndrome. Mechanic: "Do you know how much a carborator costs, Honey?" Me: "Well, a rebuilt carborator costs $250. I imagine a carborator honey costs about $100 more."
As a young woman I've always been small cute and blonde. Now that I'm "seasoned" I'm a cute little old lady and I've suffered from the H word my whole life. If I get assertive with the manly masters of the mechanical world the usual response is, "Now take it easy, Honey." This tends to make me homicidal.
One of the cables that hold up my air tank broke and rather than jerry-rig it I decided to pay what I figured would be around $100 for TA to put a new one on. After the obligatory 3 hour wait to pull into the shop the mechanic fooled around under there for five minutes and then began wandering the shop doing whatever it is they do when there's nothing to do. After nearly an hour I got out looked under my truck and saw he had cynched it back up with 2 bungee tarp straps. I went in spoke to cashier. "Oh yes that's done. That'll be $75, HONEY."
After I responded with "!!!!!!!!!" And endured several "Now calm down, Honey"s, I told him I would go away if he made it $50. For 2 $2.99 straps and 5 minutes under the truck. As if I couldn't have just done that #@!# myself.
I imagine some of you guys have suffered from the Buddy syndrome. "Now take it easy, Buddy...."

 

I would have done it myself if I just wanted to hang it from a couple bungees!

 

I had an encounter with a driver who wanted to right turn into a truck stop I was coming out of and he was sure I had to move before he could do it. I didn't want to make my turn until he moved because I had to cross busy traffic to make a left. The drive was so wide a team of 6 elephants abreast could have done it. He had the lane he was in plus the right turn lane he should have been in plus the lane he was trying to turn into, but he just kept waving me to go. I thought i must be mistaken about where i was positioned so I looked and heck i was 4 feet away from the center line. He nearly had a heart attack signalling me to go. Finally I was satisfied a car wasn't going to appear going 100 miles an hour in the lane on the other side of him and went but by then he had some new gestures for me. I think he thought I was number 1. What was he doing driving all by himself if he couldn't make that turn?