Escape route
Sometimes I think the life of a truck driver must be pretty nice. Long, long drives with the radio or utter silence for company… I love a long drive. When I’ve just got to think, or not think, nothing works for me like driving until I have arrived at the exact center of nowhere.
Realists among you might point out that truck drivers also work very hard. Well, yes, fine. But in my romantic view, it must be pretty nice to be a long-haul trucker.
So I took a long drive the other day. Lots of thoughts to collect, lots of quiet thinking and loud singing, me and the road, old friends together.
When I was maybe half way to nowhere I stopped in a parking lot across from a baseball field for a spell. Stared at the sky. Stared at nothing. Closed my eyes a while.
When I opened ‘em I saw this sign:
Lawfirm billboard outside ballfield, not-quite-nowhere, Pennsylvania
I’ll leave you to think about what kind of client the sign might attract, whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, etc.
Proves one thing: naming can make a huge difference. Smith just wouldn’t give you the same thoughts, would it?
(And yes, that really is the principal’s name. Nice bit of luck, that, but with good naming you can make your own luck just as simply.)
It was perfect timing for me. I could use a little bit of Heavens today.
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
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8 December 2009, 5:12 am
Since I don’t own the heavens yet, all I can do is let you share my lucky star for a while. *polishes it off with a shirt sleeve and hands it over*
On a side, semi-related note, did you know that I was almost a long-haul truck driver? Had the application for the school, had the required letter of sponsorship in my hand, had the guaranteed job waiting for me.
That too, was another application that never made it to the offices.
Gotta say I’m kinda glad – I sat down and had a talk with a truck driver afterwards about what it’s *really* like behind the wheel. I found out later that back problems and hernias are common , and so are speed (the pill form) and insomnia-producing drugs to stay awake for long hours.
(Before any truck drivers come bash me, I said it was common. I didn’t say ALL of you are dopies and beer bellies…)
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8 December 2009, 6:25 am
James,
No, I don’t think I knew that! How funny. A great friend of my mother’s was a truck driver, so I’ve always known my romantic notion of it was hogwash in the logical part of my brain. But no one pays you to go on escapes for no reason, so it still looks pretty nice in some ways.
Thanks for the star. I’ll bring it back tomorrow, and I’ll try not to dent it up too much while it’s on loan to me. Hehe.
Regards,
Kelly
8 December 2009, 10:17 am
To me, Heavens sounds like a nice place to get your will done. Much friendlier. Not to mention optimistic.
Small-town names are by definition, small town. We used to have a fish tackle and photography shop in Thunder Bay (yes, there’s another sure sign of a small town — the shop that sells two normally incongruous items) that was called “Hookers”.
Actually sounds like a great name for a tackle shop, doesn’t it?It is, until you consider that it was located in the “red light” district of Thunder Bay.
Makes you wonder.
~Graham
8 December 2009, 10:21 am
PS – Hope the drive did good by you. I’m a lover of the road trip myself — but then you kind of have to be when you live 500 miles from anywhere.
~Graham
8 December 2009, 11:09 am
I would go to Heaven’s Law office. Much better the Hell’s Law. Or come to think of it…
maybe it would depend on what I needed the services for. Can’t see Heaven doing much in the way of divorces now that I think about it.
Course, I’m done with that…I’d like to hope.
8 December 2009, 1:11 pm
My brother-in-law does a run between Hamilton and Ottawa several times a week (he has a really nice truck with sleeper, he’s running flowers if you can believe it!)
He used to haul steel between the steel plants in Hamilton and the Ball Packaging Plant in Burlington (pop cans).
He prefers the long haul for that very reason. Time to think.
He would agree with you that it is hard work, but he’d have it no other way.
I can hook you up with him if you like
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