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You know what kind of sucks? Licking the sugar off the side of your Dunkin Donuts cup only to realize that it wasn't sugar, but dirt.
I think I set an unofficial Fed Ex record last week. On Wednesday I broke down on the side of the highway. My truck was incapable of going over 15 and stalled every 10 seconds or so. I limped off the highway because I didn't want to be broken down on the side of 70mph traffic. They fixed the truck and it was back on the road the next day. Apparently a fan belt shredded which caused the engine to overheat. On Friday when I was approaching the same point on the same highway, I had the same problem. Once again I limped off the highway and parked in the very same parking lot from Wednesday with the very same fan belt issue. They brought me a new truck (the tow truck company stops by our station first, hooks up to a spare, and then comes up to meet me to give me the new truck and take away the broken one) and I was on my way a bit over an hour later. An hour later....the engine on the new truck dies on me. I'm not sure what was wrong with that one, but the engine would just die on me every few minutes and wouldn't start for about a minute after that. I did a couple more stops and then parked somewhere for lunch. They had to bring me a third truck that day. So I broke 3 trucks last week, 2 in one day. And that's on top of getting a flat tire the week before. That was all on the same route too. I have pretty bad luck covering that route.
On a completely unrelated topic a couple of weeks ago Erin and I went to a Providence Bruins game with her little brother and cousin. On the way there we were walking through the mall behind a guy who had his kid on his shoulders. They walked through a door and THUNK. The father was tall enough that the kid smacked his forehead on the top of the door. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while but the kid's mom didn't feel the same way I did.
I'm currently on vacation....I leave for Florida in 2 days.
I think I set an unofficial Fed Ex record last week. On Wednesday I broke down on the side of the highway. My truck was incapable of going over 15 and stalled every 10 seconds or so. I limped off the highway because I didn't want to be broken down on the side of 70mph traffic. They fixed the truck and it was back on the road the next day. Apparently a fan belt shredded which caused the engine to overheat. On Friday when I was approaching the same point on the same highway, I had the same problem. Once again I limped off the highway and parked in the very same parking lot from Wednesday with the very same fan belt issue. They brought me a new truck (the tow truck company stops by our station first, hooks up to a spare, and then comes up to meet me to give me the new truck and take away the broken one) and I was on my way a bit over an hour later. An hour later....the engine on the new truck dies on me. I'm not sure what was wrong with that one, but the engine would just die on me every few minutes and wouldn't start for about a minute after that. I did a couple more stops and then parked somewhere for lunch. They had to bring me a third truck that day. So I broke 3 trucks last week, 2 in one day. And that's on top of getting a flat tire the week before. That was all on the same route too. I have pretty bad luck covering that route.
On a completely unrelated topic a couple of weeks ago Erin and I went to a Providence Bruins game with her little brother and cousin. On the way there we were walking through the mall behind a guy who had his kid on his shoulders. They walked through a door and THUNK. The father was tall enough that the kid smacked his forehead on the top of the door. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while but the kid's mom didn't feel the same way I did.
I'm currently on vacation....I leave for Florida in 2 days.