Being clean (bodily) while in the company of others should be at the top of every truck driver's list. Off and on, I have about fifteen years experience driving a truck. I started driving lumber delivery trucks when I was young. Then as that business usually tends to slope off in the winter, I would team drive with my dad sometimes. He had 35 years experience driving a truck. We lost him several years ago to kidney failure. I pulled a milk grade and then a food grade tanker for about a year and a half. I quit there and went to work for a local trucking company out of the Springfield, Missouri area for about a year as a company driver, then bought a truck through that company (not Prime), and was an owner/operator for about eight years with them. I now pull a 53' refeer, leased on with Landstar.
The story I want to tell happened a number of years ago in my tanker yanker days. I was at a TA truck stop, I had eaten supper, and decided to watch a movie in the T.V./movie room there. The movie was the second Zorro movie starring Antonio Banderas. It got to the part of the movie where Zorro's wife (played by Katherine Zeta Jones) decides to spy on the bad guy(played b y Stuart Wilson) by pretending to leave Zorro for him.
About this time a 300 plus pound driver who smelled like he hadn't showered in at least a month, and hadn't wiped his butt even longer than that, slid into the row I was sitting in (not excusing himself as he stepped in front of me, where his butt was at my nose level), and sat down three or four seats down. It got to the part in the movie where Mrs. Zorro is going to pretend to divorce Zorro, and take all of his money, when Big Mister Smelly calls out in a loud voice for all to hear, "That right there boys, that right there is why I don't have a woman!" I thought to myself, "Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, pal. That's why you don't have a woman." I left the T.V./movie room shortly after that, the smell was getting to me, and I rented the movie later in the week to finish watching it in less hostile fragrant company.
Remember the Peanuts Cartoon? Remember the happy dance that Charlie Brown's dog Snoopy would do whenever he was happy? When my wife is with me on the truck, she does that exact same dance when it's shower day. So, please drivers, be kind to our pets and military vets, say no to drugs and lot lizard hugs, AND if you've got an hour consider a shower.
The story I want to tell happened a number of years ago in my tanker yanker days. I was at a TA truck stop, I had eaten supper, and decided to watch a movie in the T.V./movie room there. The movie was the second Zorro movie starring Antonio Banderas. It got to the part of the movie where Zorro's wife (played by Katherine Zeta Jones) decides to spy on the bad guy(played b y Stuart Wilson) by pretending to leave Zorro for him.
About this time a 300 plus pound driver who smelled like he hadn't showered in at least a month, and hadn't wiped his butt even longer than that, slid into the row I was sitting in (not excusing himself as he stepped in front of me, where his butt was at my nose level), and sat down three or four seats down. It got to the part in the movie where Mrs. Zorro is going to pretend to divorce Zorro, and take all of his money, when Big Mister Smelly calls out in a loud voice for all to hear, "That right there boys, that right there is why I don't have a woman!" I thought to myself, "Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, pal. That's why you don't have a woman." I left the T.V./movie room shortly after that, the smell was getting to me, and I rented the movie later in the week to finish watching it in less hostile fragrant company.
Remember the Peanuts Cartoon? Remember the happy dance that Charlie Brown's dog Snoopy would do whenever he was happy? When my wife is with me on the truck, she does that exact same dance when it's shower day. So, please drivers, be kind to our pets and military vets, say no to drugs and lot lizard hugs, AND if you've got an hour consider a shower.
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