'Truckers Don't Deal in Fear':

Yeah, they do. I'm pretty close to an owner/operator (OOIDA member). I was talking to him about a week ago about to what to be ready for while his rig was in the shop being overhauled. "I don't wanna hear about shit like that, shut up!"

OK, the story was different this morning when he called in a panic, regretting all the houses, vehicles and other shit he has bought. I'm not too sympathetic to folks that don't want my advice until they've destroyed themselves.

It may be we've passed a peak in paranoia

I don't think so, NN. I had to go out today to take care of something very important, no, it didn't have anything to do with TP or food.

It was about keeping my word to a good and long-term friend that I haven't been able to see near enough over the years.

I had to go to a low-intensity business to take care of what I had to do (it was pretty cool, never done anything like it in my travels. Raised some hackels).

On the way to my truck in the parking lot of this strip mall, there was a black couple fighting. All I heard was, "Fuck you, bitch! After here I'm takin' you to the hospital!"

I really don't want to talk about what I saw and heard today until I have some more time to process it.

Am I panicked, no. You'd have to be human for that.

the story was different this morning when he called in a panic, regretting all the houses, vehicles and other shit he has bought. I'm not too sympathetic to folks that don't want my advice until they've destroyed themselves.

When the cash is rolling in you tend to spend it. You buy all the things you have always wanted.

If you fail to plan for things like the overhaul you know will be coming when you get over 150,000 miles on that truck you will find yourself in deep doo-doo. ;

Some should learn frugality like old Kraus on the State Highways. When we were in a restaurant at the end of the meal he would say, "Just leave a quarter for a tip. That's enough." :-/

When the cash is rolling in you tend to spend it.

Sheeple gotta sheep, I guess.

You buy all the things you have always wanted.

I never did, I was always worried too much about everyone else. About a month ago, I lifted up my head and decided to do something for myself. It had to do with a car I wanted in Denver. Arranged a cheap flight from FWA to DEN, dealer sold it just after I made all the arrangements. Think I mentioned to Loddy in a post. Effin' huge disappointment.

I swear to Odin, I'll never become self-aware enough again to even think about doing something for myself.

It's not my lot in life.

I'm glad you were able to return safely.

Always do. Sometimes it involves being taped to a backboard, ambulance ride and hospital stay, a MediVac flight home or a couple nights in jail, but yeah, I always get home.

I'm still a little pissed about my doo-gooder friend bailing me out last time. I was kind of having fun learning about how the other half lives, a little sociological experiment, if you will. I didn't call him, his wanna-be cop step-daughter checks the arrest records on the net and called him. They'd have had to let me loose soon anyway, hell this shit was bogus.

Shoot, anyway, I was the "old man" and the scared kids didn't mess with me and had some strange respect for me. One of the kids asked me what I did.

"I didn't do nuthin'. Who the fuck do you think you are to talk to me?"

I guess that I was practicing "social distancing" before it was fashionable. Calmed down the scuttlebutt for awhile, but if they'd get too loud telling of their amazing exploits, all I had to do was say shut the hell up, and they would.

I'm not a bad fella, just obstinate, I suppose that grates on a lot of people. Eff it, I don't care. I'm a lot like smoked kipper snacks, you either love them or hate them, no in-between.

There might be a few folks here that know I'm not a bad guy, I'm not.

Pin, sorry for some of the language, I'll try to tone it down.

Pin, sorry for some of the language, I'll try to tone it down.

You're fine. Seriously. I prefer people be for real.

I prefer people be for real.

I'm real, if not strange. I try not to offend anybody's "delicate sensibilities" especially now that everybody has so many of them. I try to limit my language online, and to a lesser amount in person (it's not a matter of record then).

Sometimes I guess it helps get the point across. I know it's course and unrefined, but I get frustrated sometimes. Sorry.

I'm real, if not strange. I try not to offend anybody's "delicate sensibilities" especially now that everybody has so many of them. I try to limit my language online, and to a lesser amount in person (it's not a matter of record then).

I literally didn't even notice it until I saw your apology, and had to scroll back to see what the hell you were talking about.

Sometimes I guess it helps get the point across. I know it's course and unrefined, but I get frustrated sometimes. Sorry.

I remember once watching the Blair Witch Project with some friends who were accustomed to my never resorting to using language, and we were at the part in the movie where this woman was letting loose a screaming monologue of obscenities at her friends out of combo of fear and frustration, and it went on absurdly long to the point of being over the top. About then our very polite female host asked if any of us wanted anything to drink, and I very politely responded in the affirmative in a long sentence similarly chock full of obscenities, ensuring of course, that my appreciation was very much noticable.

My friends were rolling on the floor.

I remember once watching the Blair Witch Project with some friends who were accustomed to my never resorting to using language...

Spanish?

Spanish?

This was some time ago in the US. All was in English.

Glad to hear you did, and sorry to hear their reaction. Oh well, it could have gone even worse.

I don't follow. To be clear, my friends thought it was hilarious.

What inspiring scenes from your life.

Reread. Amazing exploits of their (pitiful) lives. I don't talk much.

But when I do (unless it's with Dakkie), I mean it.Don't try to be so serious all the time NN, have some fun. There's only one person here that I don't like, but I think they're just lonely and angry. They do make a good point sometimes.

I know that I may be a bit abstruse at times, that's just what I was taught.

Don't try to be so serious all the time NN, have some fun.

I didn't do nuthin'. Who the fuck do you think you are to talk to me?

Last I heard the supply chain was already broken ala china's lack of exports and now every other nation locking down.

Spell check here. When I saw the word "unrefined", I knew you meant "coarse". ;)

china's lack of exports

I do not think the world will miss much of what China exports, unless you like to buy junk that falls apart like what the Japs made after the end of WW II.

I needed a new leather belt too. The one I bought was stamped "Made in China". I guess we cannot even make those here any longer. :-/

I'm sure those kids want to be like you someday.

I'm sure they would, but bear in mind that I've never done anything illegal or immoral unless it was for "God & country."

They'll never aspire to be me, I wish y'all could know me. I think a few of you know me well enough though.

X, please respond to my P mail.

OK, spelling nazi :)

LOL No offense, ok?

I have been watching some old re-runs on video of 12 O'clock High the time when the B-17s were bombing targets in Germany and France.

I was reading another story about a Lutheran Pastor who decided Germany was indeed a tyranny. I think it was Martin Niemoller.

And I just discovered Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was an anti-Nazi dissident. ;)

what the I-5 corridor has become in at least the greater Puget Sound area.

With the big storms that come in off the Pacific, I bet they are glad if they do not have to go up Snowqualmie Pass on I-90.

I hear Donner Pass in California has been buried too.;)

Some folks don't understand me here, I fear, unless they're really old- timers from the git (hoosier hickistan for gate, beginning).

So I thought movie or TeeVee references. OK, Borg from Star Trek FNG (bear in mind that I haven't been to a movie since "Alien" (1979?).

Well, I'm about as far away from a Borg that you could get. I'll never be part of a collective. Communism, socialism, etc. I've been ruthless & creul when the job demanded it.

Then it hit me. I was Godfrey from the movie "My Man Godfrey" circa 1932. I loved William Powell in the "Thin Man" movies. That was pretty close, not inaccurate, but Godfrey was way too self aware, maybe...

If'n y'all want the best fictional (real) depiction of me is, it's Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in the movie "Blade Runner".

He was a creation of a company (circumstance) and didn't want to die. I don't either. I know it's just a movie, but I can't explain my life. How would I?

Maybe in some songs, like X-15 posted for me about Dale Jr.

Borg from Star Trek

You will be assimilated. ROTFLOL

You will be assimilated.

Try me kiddo. I don't scare anymore. Too old.

(Edit) I'm just trying to do the right thing and assuage my conscience before I'm gone.

You will be assimilated.

Try me kiddo. I don't scare anymore. Too old.

I'm just yankin' your chain. Don't sweat it. ;)

(I-5 in Canada though, most certainly need)

Are there any mountains in the Vancouver area along that route? ;)