Tidbits from a Travelin' Man...
Waddy, KY
-I swear to God, that's the real name of this place just west of Frankfort. I'm not good enough to make that one up...
-Speaking of great names, did you know there's a player in the Baseball Hall of Fame named Heinie Manush. What a great fuckin name...
-I got free food today. In the far reaches of Eastern Kentucky, there is a little town called Kimber about 10 miles east of Pikeville. Just outside this town is a little community called Mountain Top. This is about as back of the beyond as you can find in this country. I have been here three times and every time, I halfway expect to see a hairless albino kid with three teeth sitting on a porch, strumming a banjo and telling me that I "shur gotta purty mouth". Anyway, in Mountain Top, there is a Kellogg's bakery where they make, among other things, pop-tarts and nutri-grain bars and the like. The place smells wonderful, in sharp contrast to many of the places I have to go. But the best part is, every time I go there, the lady in the shipping office gives me free, expired products. Today, it was two boxes of low-fat, apple cinnamon nutri-grain bars...sw8...
-Always keep an empty gatorade bottle and a couple rolls of toilet paper in the truck. You just never know...
-Keeping in that vein, ALWAYS check the availability of TP in the stall BEFORE you sit down...
-Always leave the truck with a set of keys. I learned this one the hard way about a year ago at a BJ's wholesale (think Sam's Club) in greater Boston. I locked myself out of my truck with the engine running while blocking off about a half-dozen employee vehicles during shift change. Yikes...one guy was so pissed and determined to get out, he attempted to back out and over the bank behind him. He damned near bottomed out a brand new Chevy Avalanche on the concrete berm at the top of the bank. He got out to see if there had been any damage. When he ascertained that all was clear, he got back into his truck, all the while giving me a dirty look, as if to say that it would have been my fault if he had banged up an axle or something. Ass...
-I found myself rememebering a Dr. Greenlee-ism a little while ago. He used to tell us every Friday at the end of choir to let the guy in a hurry pass us by on the road, that we'd catch him up at the next light. Since I started driving last April, I've driven roughly 160,000 miles in 41 states and four Canadian provinces. You know what? He was right...
-I'm still worried about the ABBA thing...
Quote of the Day
"I apologize if I get an erection, and I apologize if I dont."
--George C. Scott, said to an actress. [cracked me up...;-)]
Any Questions? Any Comments? Be Quiet as You Go...
-I swear to God, that's the real name of this place just west of Frankfort. I'm not good enough to make that one up...
-Speaking of great names, did you know there's a player in the Baseball Hall of Fame named Heinie Manush. What a great fuckin name...
-I got free food today. In the far reaches of Eastern Kentucky, there is a little town called Kimber about 10 miles east of Pikeville. Just outside this town is a little community called Mountain Top. This is about as back of the beyond as you can find in this country. I have been here three times and every time, I halfway expect to see a hairless albino kid with three teeth sitting on a porch, strumming a banjo and telling me that I "shur gotta purty mouth". Anyway, in Mountain Top, there is a Kellogg's bakery where they make, among other things, pop-tarts and nutri-grain bars and the like. The place smells wonderful, in sharp contrast to many of the places I have to go. But the best part is, every time I go there, the lady in the shipping office gives me free, expired products. Today, it was two boxes of low-fat, apple cinnamon nutri-grain bars...sw8...
-Always keep an empty gatorade bottle and a couple rolls of toilet paper in the truck. You just never know...
-Keeping in that vein, ALWAYS check the availability of TP in the stall BEFORE you sit down...
-Always leave the truck with a set of keys. I learned this one the hard way about a year ago at a BJ's wholesale (think Sam's Club) in greater Boston. I locked myself out of my truck with the engine running while blocking off about a half-dozen employee vehicles during shift change. Yikes...one guy was so pissed and determined to get out, he attempted to back out and over the bank behind him. He damned near bottomed out a brand new Chevy Avalanche on the concrete berm at the top of the bank. He got out to see if there had been any damage. When he ascertained that all was clear, he got back into his truck, all the while giving me a dirty look, as if to say that it would have been my fault if he had banged up an axle or something. Ass...
-I found myself rememebering a Dr. Greenlee-ism a little while ago. He used to tell us every Friday at the end of choir to let the guy in a hurry pass us by on the road, that we'd catch him up at the next light. Since I started driving last April, I've driven roughly 160,000 miles in 41 states and four Canadian provinces. You know what? He was right...
-I'm still worried about the ABBA thing...
Quote of the Day
"I apologize if I get an erection, and I apologize if I dont."
--George C. Scott, said to an actress. [cracked me up...;-)]
Any Questions? Any Comments? Be Quiet as You Go...
posted by twistedyoda | 6/14/2006 07:43:00 PM
1 Comments:
Waddy: some of the best fuel prices in the state. Since Waddy and Peytona are listed on the same sign, I used to think the place was called Waddy Peytona. It doesn't sound like something anyone would name a town, but nither do "Waddy" nor "Peytona".
I learned from a very nice traffic school instructor that the object of driving was: to get there. Unless you are making a very long haul, speeding seldom saves enough time to make it worthwhile. On the other hand, being pulled over by cops, getting in a wreck, etc. all are in direct opposition to the main object of driving.
The only reason I speed nowadays is because I like the way it feels on the road.
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