Good night guy...I meant to ramble on myself about a few things...but just haven't the time...
Torn and tired?....you know...it takes a lot of humility to admit that...
Most guys like to put up a false front of 'steel'...
It's nice to hear someone else admit their a bit 'worn'...not defeated, but a bit worn...there's nothing wrong with that at all...
Anyways...I have to get up at 2:00 am...
Back to back nights with hardly any sleep...at all...
My spouse, the trucking industry, and job here, have me all tied up right now...today they have left me with no time or energy to play; work work work...we'll chat again tomorrow girlfriend....(sorry, just had to say that for effects...two battered housewives {drivers} trying to deal with this industry)
Good night guy...
Trucking indeed, can be like a bad marriage...(or good)...
How neat would it be to make a play out of this or something...Broadway, where are you?....
Trucking can be like a bad marriage...
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by ghostchild, Feb 4, 2009.
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:smt068 Rapid fire thoughts due to limited time...:smt068
1. It's always nice to start your day off or end it, in a truck stop bathroom...the noises, the sounds, the smells...oh it's just so wonderful...
2. Women...listen...never tell a guy you look like your father...that is a garunteed romance killer...at least wait until after a few dates or the guy starts falling for you...
A gal did that to me tonight...She told me she looked like her father...if I'm making out or kissing a gal, that's the last thing or image I need to know...
3. News...there really is no more news...it's all sensationalism...with shows like Nancy Grace...all they cover is sex and gore...tabloid stuff...
Tonight on that show, in the promo...they used the word 'murder' like 5 times in less than a minute, to draw listeners in...after that I turned the radio channel...I think it's cheezy to glamourize sex and violence to appeal to peoples lowest base for viewer ship....
Fox News does this too...they play 911 calls...and you hear the victims suffering...even kids...
I'm like 'this is sick'...and again turned the satellite radio dial...
I don't like hearing real live 911 calls replayed on air for glamorization...to me that is so wrong...and cheapens the whole ordeal...
Also to me, news is more than just bashing the President 24/7....after a while it just get's ridiculious and becomes propaganda...
Bring back some real news please, that covers science, business, military strategy of other nations, trends...whatever...just mix it up...there's more to life and the news than Pres Obama...
4. Truck stop food is terribly bad for you...way to much sodium in everything...from chips to wrapped sandwiches to hot dogs to almost everything in the store to eat...it's all way to full of sodium...
It's like eating a pile of salt...
To much of this stuff will kill you...stop!!
Anyhow...no time for anything lately...gotta go check in, after driving since 2:00am...I'm taking on that dreaded 'trucker' look lately, cause I haven't proper time to care for my physical appearence...
Just in the 3 months I've come back out here...I've seen myself come down in all areas...looks, nutrietion, moral...
When I was unemployed...I ate much healthier...fruit, vegitables...and meat, everynow in then...hardly no salt in my diet...
After coming back out here...the stuff I put in my body is sickening...and this only after 3 months....
I can't allow this to happen....to be continued...gotta check in... -
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I think she thinks that I'm going to fill that void...that role...
But I just don't know...
This is the messiest time to get involved in a relationship, during the break up period...emotions are wild, feeling flare, sentiment develops...
It's just messy...and If I start a relationship with a woman...I want it to be clean...
But maybe that will never happen...maybe life isn't a fairytale after all...
But instead rather a dark ravean...
You hang down here to long, and after a while you start to feel comfortable, not good... -
This is what I call foot fetish going a bit to far...
Like where's the Barbee-Que sauce huh??
I was fixen to post on a totally different subject...but when I saw this, it kinda stole my thoughts for the moment...
Peppered feet with lemon sauce...
Hey, I know who's responsible for this...
What??? why are you looking at me??
Say, what size shoe do you wear?
How would you like to come back to our planet with us?
On a humanitarian good will tour?
(Don't do it...we've seen this episode before)...
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Situations like that have all the ingredients to backfire - and unfortunately, it usually backfires on the new guy (i.e. you) in the relationship.
The scenerio usually plays out like this - woman is unhappy in a relationship for God knows what reason(s), or maybe is simply bored with the relationship........
She meets a new guy that she is attracted to, and when he shows mutual interest - she loses herself in the butterflies, fireworks and excitement many feel in *new* relationships - the thrill of it - the thril that had long ago burnt out in her existing relationship.
The critical time is when she begins to, or trys to, move away from her previous boyfriend - ESPECIALLY if he finds out another man is involved. A lot of guys let their relationships deteriorate for years and never seem to give a rats ### - but as soon as they find out another man is stepping in they almost always, instantly do a 180 - flowers, romantic dinner, vacations - whatever he can do to put the spice back in their love life......
And this is usually the time it gets complicated - the couple have a history and time invested in each other, and at least for me, its hard to let someone go when you are used to them, used to the routine, and as long as the relationship wasn't crazy (i.e. abuse, cheating), many times they will get *back* together, and in the end you will be the one who was kind of "taken for a ride" by the whole ordeal; which can suck really bad, especially if you really developed feeling for this woman.
Relationships are tough in general. You are no longer #1 in your life anymore and you, or at your least expected to, give up a lot for the relationship. But thats where it gets tricky - some woman want you to give up everything while they give up very little and in the end you are a shell of your former self - sort of a "living dead".
David Shaw, an extreme cave diver from Australia, who sadly, died trying to return the remains of a diver who disappeared 10 years earlier in Boesmangat, a cave in South Africa at a depth of 900' in pitch black - he was a pioneer in deep cave penetration (YouTube - Dave Shaws last dive), he wore a helmet cam and recorded this fatal dive - dive physicians say he most likey suffered a CO2 blackout and drowned by over exerting himself at such an extreme depth.
Anyway to my point........
His wife didn't even know how to swim and hated the water and was well aware of the dangers he faced for essentially a hobby. From what I've read on her, she seemed like a really awesome wife.....here is a excerpt she wrote for her husbands eulogy.
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- I couldn't keep him tied down.
He was like a bird.
You put a bird in a cage or you let it fly free.
If you put him in a cage, he is never really happy.
Having him fly free was always a risk.
There was always the chance that one day he wouldn't come back.
It was something that I have always known one day I might have to face.
- Ann Shaw
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Woman who let you live life how you want to are few and far in between.ghostchild Thanks this. -
I don't need to re affirm my manhood every 2 seconds, to proove to anyone that I'm 'Hetro'...
Guys who do that seem very small and shallow to me...weak actually, insecure and frail....
All the things you would think a 'sissy' was...
I know longer look upon females as 'objects'...and there by giving them a free pass....not at all...
I look upon them as accountable human beings, with souls...who are responsible for their behavior...and on that, I determine their likeability factor or not...
Not on how I can be manipulated sexualy to over look character flaws...
I don't like being intellectually manipulated or physically manipulated...
If you are a beautiful person...I will see that on my own...you won't have to manipulate me with langerae or anything else...
Beauty radiates from the soul, not flesh...
And beauty is not limited to just one gender...
Just like the Mallard duck...(I always use this example)...it's a male bird...yet god adorned it with physical splendor..
Or the Peacock...again...a male bird, that God decided to give beautiful color and radiance too...
100% male...this bird is 100% male, and beautiful...
I don't know if that bugs some human females to see a male species so beautifully aligned with colors....
So obviously God did not associate color and beauty to be female specific...that's something that modern Western man did in recent history...not God...
And as such has made many women way less accountable for their behavior, after they realized they can easily manipulate men, males, with their default 'beauty'...
That's why so many guys get 'burnt' all the time...cause most guys arent very bright...and women know this...and take advantage of that fact....
That, combined with guys inert fear of being thought of as 'gay' in this overly 'homophobic' society...makes them easy pickings for a lot of things...
Like wearing shorts that come all the way down to the dm floor...absurd...expecially when 20 years ago and less, guys wore shorts that came well above the knees...
If a guy wore shorts like this today, he'd be thought of as 'gay'...and made fun of...but yet, those of you old enough to remember...shorts like this were 'normal'...back in the 80's, early 90's and 70's...
It seems guys were more 'liberating' back then...
Bottom line, guys are very frail creatures..and the tougher they act, the softer they are on the inside...period...hide all you want behind your leather and jeans... -
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
ghostchild Thanks this. -
You have incredible insight...and the ability to communicate it with others...
A soul like yours is very rare in this day and age, particularly in this blue callor trucking enviornment....
You are very very refreshing to me...thanks...
U4EA Thanks this. -
Thanks Ghostchild; your fantastic writings encouraged me to share similar experiences or beliefs that I have with you........
You have to deal with way too many dim witted, wanna be tough guys in the "blue collar" work force. Thats's why I have very few "friends" in that realm - only acquaintences.......I may be called "friend", but I have nothing in common - just the ability to adapt to the environment at that moment. I have a deep voice, tattoos and I can drink with the best of them....so most assume I am just like them; but I'm not - many of them actually make me embarrassed to be in the same profession.
Actually I will stop here.......too private to post openly but I may sent you a draft Ghostchild.
I do not see myself as above them........just beyond them.
Ignorance is bliss and boredom only effects the boring mind.
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