Comments on: I Got Nothin’ but a Little Bit of Heavens Today

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:11:48 +0000

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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By: Wendi Kelly

Wendi Kelly — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:09:07 +0000

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.

By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:21:19 +0000

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

By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:17:22 +0000

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

By: Kelly Erickson

Kelly Erickson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:25:01 +0000

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

By: James Chartrand - Men with Pens

James Chartrand - Men with Pens — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:12:29 +0000

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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