I am young what does this mean?I am only 26.

 

opps pushed it to PAGE 15 :!:

 

OH MY GOD he pushed the thread to page 15

Now I really feel old this YOUNGIN' never heard of the Marx Brothers..

Easy, it's simple the Brothers Marx: Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo!!!

It's a long story send me a Private message and I'll explain..

Hey it is page 15 that means it's gaining on the War Between The States thread!!!

More to come as the count down continues!!

 

:twisted: Now I'm really getting ticked off, even people who never heard of the Marx Bros can utilize that damn 'quote' dooie....what's the secret? :?:

 

Read your PM I 'splained it all!!!

And the clock is ticking.

And for what it's worth... That would be Moose Abuse!!!

 

Are you sure this is what you wanted????

A frequent question I asked myself over the years as one or more bizarre or aggravating events happened over the 30 plus years I?ve plied Americas? highways, oops, almost forgot Canada and Mexico too?

I had always said that the best form of birth control was late night calls from dispatch, didn?t matter which dispatch, but the statement still applies.
One such phone call had me taking a rail trailer full of drinking mugs to just about every bloody McDonalds in New York City, yeah, my idea of a good time on a Friday. The dispatcher knew I wasn?t going to refuse the load. It came close though!!!!

I used one of the distributors tractors, a joyous L-9000 Ford which was a pleasure to drive, not really, don?t want to upset any Ford truck fans. The rail trailer was another subject entirely; 45? long, swing doors, and the tandems were locked to the rear, not to mention 13? 6? high. Yes a real treat in Midtown but a real pain in the ass in other sections?

I arrived at the first stop on Wall Street at 06:30 and the crew unloaded the first 90 cases, not bad considering the trailer was stacked from floor to ceiling with the damn glasses. I walked back to the tractor to find a parking ticket under the wiper blade. ?Great!? I thought ?Just what I need to start the morning off!?
Getting into the Financial district wasn?t bad, getting out was tough but none the less I managed to get the next 8 stops of without much incident except for the one ?Bag Lady? I pissed off on the Lower West Side.

Now Midtown was whole different animal, it was getting close to lunch time and I only had ? of the trailer unloaded and parking was becoming a scarce item as I pulled up to stop number 15. The manager and two crew members came out to help unload, which was great, unfortunately the pedestrians were not pleased and let us know so, again it was New York and it made for great entertainment. After 125 boxes were thrown off the back of the truck I found yet another parking ticket, I added it to the growing pile on the passenger seat and the total so far? 10.

As I wandered up through Manhattan the ticket count grew and grew along with my deep dislike for the ?Brown Shirts? or Meter Cops!!! To make matters all the more interesting it was getting increasingly difficult to maneuver the annoying rail box around town.

I finally made it to the upper West Side about 15:00 I pulled up in front of the McDonalds walked inside to talk to the manager, which only took a grand total of 3 minutes. I walked back out of the store and found another ticket; I tossed it on the growing pile and waited for the crew to unload. About 10 minutes into the unloading process a ?Brown Shirt? came up and asked who was driving the truck, the crew said they didn?t know and I told the chick the driver wandered if in disbelief. She looked around and said she was going to hand me the parking ticket and I told her no, her job was to stick it on the windshield by law. She said she couldn?t reach the windshield, I responded by saying its New York law, if there was a problem talk to the Mayor.
She did manage to put the ticket on the windshield. I waited for 15 minutes before I jumped in the tractor and drove off.

Half the trailer to go and 17:00 was rapidly approaching as I arrived in Harlem for stop number 22. Being in Harlem didn?t bother me but it was getting painfully clear that this trip was going to be an all nighter! The unloading process at this place was slow but it finally got done at 18:00, not to mention a lot of overjoyed neighbours who received free mugs. The manager never knew and I kept harmony in the ranks?

The hour rapidly approaching 20:00 I called the distributors dispatch office and told them I wasn?t anywhere near being finished and the guy on the other end of the phone said in so many words ?Tough Shit!?
Well that was the wrong thing to say, I told him what I thought of him and his parents and then called my boss and told him what had happened. My boss, in turn, called the distributor and told them where they could find the trailer and to find another driver to finish the run. I objected strongly to that tactic because I didn?t want someone coming back and saying I abandoned a piece of equipment.
I told the boss I would drag the trailer back to the yard and they could do whatever they wanted from there and besides I needed to drop off 35 parking tickets.
I arrived back in Edison, NJ at 22:00 walked into the dispatch office handed in the signed bills and the wad of parking tickets. The lead dispatcher jumped up from his desk and yelled I was going to pay for them. I told him calmly and quietly that he had nothing to fear the tractor was a rental and the trailer would be back in Oklahoma the day after next. He looked puzzled, which was nothing new; I continued to explain that if he paid real close attention to the tickets the name of the rental company was misspelled on every single one of them and that the license tags were totally incorrect?

Gee I miss New York!!!!

Oh one more thing the dispatcher told me they would never call me again. Was I heart broken??? No, they called me back a week later!!!

The anniversary is rapidly approaching.... will it make 9,000??? stay tuned!

 

Well Doc, 35 tickets beats my 22, most parking tickets I ever got in one shift. Most of them had the company name mispelled, all of them had the wrong tag number. Needless to say, NYC didn't get on penny from me.

 

1499 to go Doc

 

Gee whiz, I can't find NYC on my map? It must be somewhere between the Canadian border and the Mason/Dixon Line :?:

Yup, Doc, we should make 9000 easily by the anniversary! And 10,000 isn't that far away - that should make some eyes open, eh? :P

 

OK, OK don't pick on my home now!!!

I'm quite sure 35 tickets is not a record by any means but it sure was fun to watch the reaction of the dispatchers!!!

1487 and still counting.... Hopefully it'll make 10,000 if the board doesn't hiccup again!!!