Wednesday :: 07 January 2009 :: 09:26 AM
352 days to Christmas!
This site is for people like me: I love big trucks - Peterbilt, Kenworth, Freightliner, Western Star - these are the wheels of commerce. Without semi-trucks transporting goods and supplies across our nation, we would not be able to live the abundant lives we share today. Thank God for big trucks.
My last big truck was a Purple Peterbilt. There is a story here about her. She was a great truck, smooth, powerful and fast. That would surprise a lot of my passengers, a large truck with today's engines can easily keep up with traffic, even when loaded. The tough part is watching out for the ricers who think nothing of cutting in front of a large truck, just before they slow down to make a quick turn. That can be downright scary sometimes. I don't know how they think fifty-eight thousand pounds is going to stop on the same dime that their three thousand pounds can.
If you have a story to tell, share it here with us. Meanwhile, check out our eBay selections for this site, you will find them fun.
Watch For Deer Crossing
Tonight I was driving with my daughter, and she told me yesterday she had seen a deer cross the road right at a deer crossing sign. You never have your camera at the right time. I told her it reminded me of a news article I had recently read.
It seems a man had recently moved up to our area (Coeur d'Alene, ID) from California. He came from the big city but he loved life here in the country. However, he was concerned about all the deer getting hit by motor vehicles. So he petitioned the commissioners at a county meeting, requesting the removal of the deer crossing signs because he thought the signs gave the animals a false sense of security. He posited that if the signs were removed, we would have fewer accidents with deer.
Fortunately, the papers never publish the names of people like that.
[02 Jan 2007 Update:] While on Christmas holiday visiting relatives in Ohio, I was relating this story. My sister-in-law broke in and said that one of her neighbors (Philo, OH) asked the highway department to remove the deer crossing sign from the front of her yard because she did not want the deer crossing there.
What is scarry about all this is that these people vote!
Random Humor: Another Classroom Joke
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."
The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."