Writing Letters

what?

also, if anything I'm good for the public image of truck drivers because I'm young and I'm not obese/overweight (no offence I'm just going off of how we're stereotyped)

 

I just hope you don't hurt yourself while you are patting your own back. And be careful about banging your head on those doorways, they are smaller than they look. . .

 

Ok young Jabber...a question: How will you sign your name? Block print? Prolly ok for police reports but not for paper logs or contracts.....

Just stating the obvious.......

And you're right.....women will find letters from the underdog and quicker than the male.....but alas young driver , they will also find emails and texts just as easy. It's done everyday. You must always dance with the one that brought you and save the last dance for me. Words to live your love life by........

My girlfriend has a boyfriend and it's not me! haha....

 

Yea just think, back in the 60's and prior to that, letters were the only form of communication between truckers and their loved ones. We never had a phone when I was a kid and dad would come home about twice a year so us kids loved getting letters from him.

 

You never sent me flowers, you dirty dawg!!

 

Ah yes, the 60s. I've heard I had alot of fun in the 60s
Back on topic, I think writing is a great idea Roger. Text and phone calls are ok but u dont have anything to remember the time by. My mom who's 88 (yrs young) has 15 boxes of memorabilia (birthday & anniversary cards, ticket stubs and schedules for trains) etc & letters dad wrote while TDY, we were USAF 20 yrs. Dad had been dead 34yrs and still today she reads those letters by the dozen. I need to find a way to keep them "forever". I'm scanning onto a cd but it'd rather have the actual letters.

 

I learned to write letters to my wife in the middle of hell in 04. It's all we could do. I told her then it's not so bad here in the desert. I tell her now it's fine here in Nogales, difference is she still has the letters from the desert. When you upgrade or like me break a phone those important things are gone. I still write her letters sometimes but give them to her at home. This has given me a fresh idea I may mail one to surprise her. It is the 21st century everyone is right. To make a point I will share this. My mother passed in June of last year. We just started going thru the house because we are gonna have to do something with it, although we all feel terrible for doing it. My sisters found letters that her and my Dad had written to each other from 1962 when they were dating, all the way up to 1988 when he retired from pipeline construction. He was gone alot months at a time. Dad passed in 1998, you could tell that Mama read these letters often and wrote a few to him after his death. I'm trying to say they brought her comfort with just cell phone I pad crap they would have been gone forever. Thats the thing with the 21st century its crap and don't last long.

 

Of course, I guess there is another way to look at it. With electronic communication, you don't have all the detritus laying around, or taking up space in the land fills. You don't use as many trees.

But it still isn't the same. . .

 

IT is worth more than you'll ever imagine Rogerthat72. My wife used to put little notes/pictures of her and the kids , in my log-book cover , and my possibles bag. I was a local driver for over 30 years before retiring too. Those little gestures still make me tear-up when I think about just how much it meant to me to find them. I also sent her letters from customers that I delivered to , even though we were usually in the same area-code , or at the most a couple hundred miles apart.

Letting her know that she is the most important part of your life won't ever be the wrong thing to do. And by taking the time to sit-down and hand-write a letter , she'll never ever forget it. When you get to be my age (65) and are retired...you'll be able to drag out the box/s of the letters and re-read together....No way in the world can you beat that feeling man.....NO way....

 

Perfect analogy wore-out...perfect. Thanks for you're service too. I did the same thing in '69...while laying in a hospital bed in Guam. Was there for 19 months recuperating from a rocket blast that almost crippled me. The letters and cards that I received were the things that really kept me from going into depression and instilled in me that I was important enough to my family ( Mom and Dad ) to get well again. My mother saved all the letters that I wrote to her from there , and when she passed away my father gave me the box that contained them....I'll say that I cherish , those things in a way that is not believable.
Writing to a loved one is a way to not only keep in touch , but in these days of instant communication , it's a very , very private and special way of letting your loved one know just how much that they mean to you.