i can't stop eating potato chips and swedish fish. and buying fast parts.

 

for your quad or wifes truck?

 

Aaron my son loves swedish fish, have you tried the new SUNCHIPS PARMESEAN AND HERB.

Ray and Aaron how are you guys getting all your stuff out to Iowa?

 

Thats funny, In Aarons defense, she has been letting him drive it.

 

The reason she is letting him is because he put the cam and things in her stang.

 

its not heated seat weather anymore so i can have it.

andy, those are good chips. i am currently eating deep river's rosemary and olive oil flavor. they are really good but hard to find. i am also a big fan of cape cod's sea salt and cracked pepper. there is also a really good lime flavored tortilla chip from a company "food should taste good", you can find them in the natural food section of stop and shop.

 

good story

 

Aaron my wife even uses the seat heaters on a cool summer day.

 

My story for today is this......

Yesterday, while most were doing something fun and/or working on Josiah's truck, I was working for free at a local non-profit. This non-profit bought an old factory, that they are slowly gutting, while they apply for grants to spruce the place up. Our job for the day was to remove all the copper wiring that used to feed machines that are now not there.

After quickly realizing that there is way more wire that we anticipated, I figured I needed to quickly resolve the logistics nightmare quickly forming. I have some hoppers, like the ones that hold the large poly containers next to Ray's shop, so I offered to go home and get them, but I would need to borrow a friend's trailer. He agreed to let me borrow it, so I went to pick it up. The trailer is in decent shape, but you know the kind, there is always something. This time was there was no plate. The plate was "lent" to another trailer, which was of course in another town. Might as well been another planet, as I had no time to go find this elusive piece of tin. So I hook up anyways.

I plug lower the coupler on the ball...... no pin. I hook up the trailer, and I hear a beep from in the cab......... "Trailer wiring fault". WTF. The fault ends up clearing itself with a quick jiggle of the connector, but now I am cursing a little. The rest of the afternoon goes great. We get the hoppers loaded on the trailer, and covered in tarps. I covered them with tarps, just because me driving down the road with a load of bare bright is like me driving down the road waving a fist full of hundreds out the window.

The next morning, I start making my way to the scrap yard, which is a nerve-racking 17 mile jaunt. Luckily, only a few cops passed me, and either they didn't notice, or their view of the missing plate was obstructed by the Dunkin dozen on the dash. I get off the ramp, and I look in the rear view, and I notice something strange. One of the ramps is slightly askew.

WTF!!! THIS MFPOS JUST CAN'T STOP GIVING ME TROUBLE!!!

The fricken pin came out that holds the bar that holds the ramps, and one ramp was inches from the ground, being held on by some friction, and the retainer bar that holds the ramp upright. Flashback to a few months ago, when the same thing happened, but I didn't notice until I got home. This thing is cursed.

I fixed the ramps, slammed a bolt in it, and very calmly continued onto the yard.

Collected $1908.20 for the non-profit, thank you bare bright.

I went home, parked the truck, got in my TDI, and drove. I drove and drove. Then I stopped. Then, I wrote a check.



Pick it up tomorrow. It's the same one I was looking at a while back, if you guys remember.

 

you like that? i have another one for you....

tomorrow i am paying the maids to use you pillow as a tampon.

 

nice trailer dude!

 

You called the wrong friend, I have 3 registered trailers in the yard you could have borrowed.

 

Edit, 4 trailers.

 

I know, Ray, but there is just a time when you need something of your own like that. I appreciate the offer though. This way I can get a vanity plate.

 

Good evening everyone.

Just cruising through, see what's happening.

Have a nice evening everyone.