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:lol: Well Good Dr. Who - just seen your message posted the 16th about looking for a 'new hero'....yea, right? - Hey man, if I had the correct email addy for you, I'd write - have previously and they keep coming back 'undeliverable'.....I'll send you a PM informing you of the email addy and the one I have for you. Keep the thread alive - the 'Marx Bros' would be proud of you! :P
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Wow this thread actually made 13 pages, not bad!!!!
Anyway I sent you a PM adjusting the email address and as far as the Brothers Marx, well the only thing I can say is I do miss the OLDdays, or would that be DAZE!!! Anyway been busy and all fun has been put on hold until I can figure out which direction I'm going... It's a real bitch when someone is DIRECTIONALLY challenged!!! Later!!!! |
More to come, I do believe!
[quote="Doctor Who"]Wow this thread actually made 13 pages, not bad!!!!
:shock: Yup, can't believe it's made it this far :!: Little did we know when it all started - what - two years ago :?: Hang in there Doc! :lol: |
Canadian Hospitality
You mentioned Canadian adventures...well, way back when, around 1959 or 60 made a trip up #2 Hwy (from Calgary to Edmonton, Alberta. Cold winter night and I was looking forward to stopping in Red Deer at a little cafe, fuelstop for some chow and hot coffee. As I pulled into the lot, the lights went out in the cafe. My heart sank - just my luck, I didn't make it in time. About the time I was ready to head on up the road, a lady walked out from the cafe and I got out to meet her. She asked if I had planned on eating there, to which I replied, 'yes indeed'. She answered, 'well, we're officially closed and the grill is turned off'. However, since you're hungry, if you'll settle for a sandwich, we'll gladly feed you.' I followed her into the cafe where they (she and her husband) proceeded to make me a couple of roast beef sandwiches and a fresh pot of coffee. After the sandwiches, they treated me to a piece of homemade cherry pie. When it came time to settle the bill, they would only let me pay for the sandwiches - coffee and pie were on the house. After returning to the truck, I started to reflect and wondered if I could ever encounter that friendly hospitality here in the states. I doubted it then and to this day I have never found a place here in the states, willing to open up once they closed - to feed a hungry trucker. Needless to say, every driver I encountered was told of the little cafe in Red Deer.
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God 59 or 60 I was just a little kid... :P
Too bad there isn't any more of those type establishments!!!! |
I agree
[quote="Doctor Who"]God 59 or 60 I was just a little kid... :P
[i] [b]Heck Doc, judging by that 'yoyo' (which incidently has been going non-stop for a couple of years)...you're still in your second childhood :!: I wonder how long before that string breaks :?: |
as requested Doc
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Years ago, a good friend of mine got fed up with the hassles of being inspected everytime he went into California. On one particular trip he said he was stopped four times between the Oregon line and Los Angeles. I ran into him a couple of months later and he informed me that he had solved the problem of being hassled by CA (and other states for that matter) regarding inspections. I asked how? 'Well, he informed me....he obtained an air tank and mounted it directly in front of the drive axles of the tractor. He ran a line up to the cab and installed a discharge valve. He then went down to the local sporting goods store and purchased some synthetic 'skunk piss' which he dumped into the air tank and then charged it up. When he rolled into Ca at Shasta, they motioned for him to pull around and into the inspection shed....Well, he informed me....he reached down and pulled the discharge valve for the air tank and sprayed the whole undercarriage of the tractor with that synthetic skunk piss. He said as the one CHP inspector was motioning him into the shed, the otherone was motioning him right through the other end...needless to say, no more inspections for everytime he gets pulled around, he just dumps the tank and sprays the undercarriage....Now that's a really cool brainstorm :!: |
Canadian Adventure con't
Well Doc, reflecting upon further Canadian adventures....I learned never to complain about any mountain grade here in the states after encountering one in Canada....If you are coming East on #1 Highway from Vancouver, BC through Kelona, Kamloops and Revelstoke, BC you will encounter 'Rogers' Pass'....and the first time I dropped off of it (back in late 50's), it was winter time, snowstorm and down I went....a narrow two-lane highway (TransCanada #1)...no guardrails...twisting and turning, switchbacks....with anywhere from a 8 to 14% grade down for over 20+ miles....it will get your attention and never again will you complain about any mountain pass here in the States....And if you have driven in Western Canada in wintertime...you know they never plow the highways...use a snowblower and let the road have a snowpacked surface....The first trip down you learn how to put on your underwear....yellow in front, brown in back :oops:
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Wilds of Montana
:roll: Years ago while delivering a shipper in norther Montana (Malta, to be exact)(close to the Canadian border....I decided to take a shortcut down through the boonies to Billings. As I was rolling down the narrow two lane highway, I rounded a curve and directly in front of me, a bridge with a height sign of 10'4"....Needless to say, I locked up the brakes and stop about 500 yards from the bridge. There wasn't any shoulder to pull off on, and I couldn't remember the last place I had seen where I could turn around. Sitting there pondering my predictament, envisoning having to back up for miles, when suddenly around the curve came a bullwagon who flew right by me. I grabbed the mike and tried to tell him about the low bridge ahead, which I thought he hadn't seen. He came back on the radio, laughing...just as he sailed under the bridge with plenty of clearance....telling me the bridge was actually 14'4" and that some kids had painted over the 4 and made it into a '0' a few months ago..........Needless to say, relief passed through this ole character that I wouldn't be backing up for miles.... |
OK Magician and anyone else who had asked: The new and maybe not so improved Doctor Who Trucker tales website is in the final stages of completion...
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