Don't worry, that light at the end of the tunnel is a TRAIN
Well, we are now officially out of the o/o business; and it wasn’t astronomical fuel prices, poor surcharges, lack of miles or cheap freight that finally did it. Last night we happened to have load going to Orlando for this morning so since we had a few hours to kill, we decided to stop by the house to do laundry and catch up on mail. At 15:30 we parked in our paid for parking spot ten miles away, loaded up the laundry, my computer and the cat in the van and headed home. We returned at 04:30 this morning to find big hole where our truck and trailer had been. The bastards had apparently thought my 2003 Pete 387 and a load of Sharpy markers and paper clips were worth the risk of any potential prison sentence they’d get if they got caught. Since we were only going home for a few hours we didn’t empty out the truck, so we lost everything… satellite radio, two mp3 players, digital camera, two inverters, back-up notebook computer, scanner, printer, $2,000 cash and, the worst part, my wallet, which I had inadvertently left in the truck. It took me five hours on the phone and computer to get all the credit cards cancelled. Then a trip to the DMV to get my license replaced and then the Social inSecurity office to get my replacement card ordered.
The insurance company will pay up, but will take at least thirty days to do it. In the mean time, I have to figure out how to pay for the house we just bought and haven’t even moved into yet, as well as all the usual bills.
If you see a short, fat guy with a shaved head panhandling at the truck stops or exit ramps over the course of the next few weeks, be kind and pony up some greenbacks, huh?
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