Got into Winnipeg yesterday morning, 10 days in the saddle and contented although more than a little tired. This trip as been hard work, all late loads then trying to fight back onto schedule, driving the max, resting the min, doing what you can to do what you do.
Made the delivery an hour early, got tipped and went round for a trailer swap, as i got to the cross dock the job got cancelled, got another message to skip round to our yard in Winipeg, drop the trailer and wait.
I did this...........
An hour later got a message to re-pick up the trailer and drive an hour to Portage, make a collection and take it to Edmonton.
Went to Portage..................
Security told me someone was already on the door being loaded with my load.
Phoned in...............................
Got told it was double booked and to go back to Winnipeg for a job tomorrow.
Went back to Winnipeg..............
Am i pissed off ???????????/
Nope .................
Why ?????????
Dunno .........
Why dont you know ?????????
Dunno .........
Why not ????????
Dunno .................
Sorry folks that was going no-where, i hate it when i talk to my self, i never get a straight answer.
Any hoo, i got up this morning after pushing out a few hundred weight of zeds, bright eyed and and bushy tailed (aagh, ive turned into a squirrel overnight) only joking.
I went in for breakfast at the "Hook" and it was really nice, no not the food silly, thats crap as usual, the atmosphere. There was only a few of us in there and i had the breakfast buffet, i had canadian bacon, pile of sausages, denver egg, scrambled egg. french toast, shredded potato and a few cups of coffee.
No, what was really nice was the atmosphere, a real diner atmosphere, just as it should be. The waitress came round balancing a tray, a menu, coffee and a cloth, she was a little rough round the edges and smelt of cheap 80's perfume, the little coffee spill was deftly mopped without dropping the tray or coffee and she was smiling.
The radio was belting out an old 80's song "I only wanna be with you", now who sung that origionally, i know Sam Fox warbled her way thru it at some stage but who did the song really belong to..............
The next song "Clouds in my coffee" another favourite of mine, again taking me back to a time forgotten...................
Staring out of the window, a field way over the distance, a bull earning his keep way off in the distance"Someones up bright and early" I mused.
Then with a wry smile i thought "Enjoy it while you can buddy, you might be on a BBQ this time next week"
It was then i got a whiff of the cheap perfume again, the smiley waitress was back with more coffee, dunno how long she had been stood there, i was away back in the 80's, she smiled, i smiled, she poured, i drank, she left.
Its the way things should be, i feel comfortable, happy. So much has happened since the 80's, the Army, The Falklands, Iraq, Marriage, Children, humdrum in England, moving to Canada.
And have i got any regrets, you know, about any of it............
Yes, but only one ........................
I wanna do it all over again, exactly the same, every last damn minute of it................................
"I only want to be with you" was i think from the 60,s dusty springfield,,it was revamped in the 80s by a little known combo called the Tourists,,which latter became Annie Lenox and Dave Stewart,the Eurithmics,,,Dusty redid it with the pet shop boys in the late 90 before she popped her clogs,,,and why didnt u call on sunday?????
ReplyDeletei did many times but got no answer.
ReplyDeleteIm still in Winnipeg but got to get going, ill explain later.