BD69: The Owner Operator Chronicles

Ours was $150 and a weekend in Branson 22 1/2 years ago. There is a little log cabin wedding chapel north of town on the east side of the highway. $50 for the church, $50 for the preacher to do the ceremony and $50 for his wife to take pictures. Neither of us would trade that for anything.

 

Well I decided to cut my week short and go home for a 5-day Labor Day rest. Although, that sounds like an oxymoron to me.

 

Man, I know how he feels. Not once but twice I have been there.

I joke around with my buddies, tell them I would be retired if it weren't for tampons, toilet paper, college and weddings!!!!

 

Don't forget diapers and formula.

 

Was in the store about 7:30 one night. Long lines no checkers. Usual for this big box discounter. This man, may be fiftyish, is in line with 3 large boxes of feminine hygiene products. Now, me, I’m like what ever, good for you. But he was getting a few odd looks from people.
Finally some woman just couldn’t stand it any more and made a comment about product and the large number of them. He turned to her and said yes it may look unusual, but not in my house, see I have a wife and six daughters at home. Was called on my way to home from the office to make an important almost emergency stop at the store.
The people standing in from of him stepped aside and let him check out.

 

And I thought 2 daughter's and a wife were bad. Poor Fella!!

 

That reminds me of a joke I heard a comedian tell years ago.

He stopped at the store to pick up a box of Tampax for his wife. Hides them under his arm, gets to the register, what happens, they don't have a price on them. The clerk gets on the loudspeaker "Clarence, need a price check on Tampax". Clarence thinks she says Thumbtacks, he comes back on the loudspeaker "Is it the kind you push in with your thumb, or drive in with a hammer"?

 

LOL

 

Decided that since I had some time to burn this afternoon I'd run this load for a few hundred dollars. 3 miles from previous unload and a whopping 10 miles to deliver straight through.

No big deal...

Except I received 3 phone calls and 1 email asking me if I was going to make it to the pick up on time this afternoon! LOL.

I felt like I was back at May Trucking 9 years ago as a rookie