My Sporadic Journal

         There’s a commercial making a run on TV these days which captured my attention. I guess that should make some Madison Ave. add guy happy. Anyway, it shows a group of trucks in the distance with dust boiling up behind them as they speed closer. Then someone says, “Look! It’s trucks!”
         And then some ole boy says with a drawl, “I like trucks..”
         Forget the rest of the commercial. As far as I’m concerned I heard all that I want. I get a kick out of that redneck saying, “I like trucks.” Why? Because down here in Texas that’s just the way it is. You see, I like trucks too. I’ve got a big red one. It’s got 4-wheel drive, a V-8 engine, and a tow package. Yup, I like trucks.
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         The funny think about trucks is that folks with trucks have more friends. I know, because I’ve hauled refrigerators, firewood, baby beds, boxes of books, and about everything else that someone needed to be hauled. Every family needs a guy with a truck. Every office needs that dude with a truck. And, it’s always good to find when you make a new friend he has a truck.
         I was sitting around visiting with some of my family at a get-together the other day when one of my boys said, “Think I’ll buy a truck.”
         To this my other son said, “Why in the world would you do that? Dad’s got a truck.”
         “Oh, that’s true. Guess I might look at something else.”
         I was sitting in my favorite easy-chair watching the Saints beat up on the Panthers on Monday Night Football, when the phone rings.
         “Hello,” I answer.
         “Hey Dad, what are you doing tomorrow?” my oldest son asks.
         “Tomorrow’s a long day. What part of it?”
         “Oh, about ten o’clock in the morning.”
         “Son, I’m retired. I’m not doing anything at ten o’clock.”
         “Well, I need your help.”
         "Whatever I can do...what do you need?"
         “I need your truck to haul a sofa home from the store.”
         Of course, I was pleased to help. I’m the guy with the truck. I mean, if I hadn’t of had that truck, he may have asked a total stranger and then I wouldn’t have been able to see my kid. So yeah, having a truck is nice. I like trucks.
         Oh, I also have a zero-turn riding lawn mower. I get calls for that too.