WANDA AND RACHAEL

WANDA AND RACHAEL


   Guess I might as well tell you a bit more about my riders.
We climbed back in the truck, which was a comedy all by itself,
The blonde,(Her name was Rachael)never did figure out how to get
in and out of that cabover with a little grace. The brunette,
(Wanda) and I would stand back and laugh at her every time.
She never could remember which foot start out with and she'd
wind up hanging on the step looking at the side of the sleeper.
 
   We drove on to Fort Worth and unloaded the truck. It was all
on pallets and the receiver took it all off in about 15 minutes.
Wanda and Rachel were asleep in the sleeper, when I started
rolling to the truckstop to call dispatch they woke up and said
they were hungry. At the truckstop I told them I had to check
the truck over so go on in and order them some breakfast and
order me bacon and two eggs and pancakes and I'd be there soon.

   I checked the tires and did my walk around and went into the
truckstop restaurant. It was really crowded  and noisy so I sat
down with the girls,ate and talked for little while then I
jumped up from the booth and shouted "what! Twenty five dollars!"
It got real quiet,everybody in the restaurant was looking at
us. They all started laughing and watching Rachael turn red.

   Rachael and Wanda sat stunned a minute then Rachael got up
and ran out to the truck. She started climbing with the wrong
foot again and was so flustered she just sat on the ground by
the truck. Wanda just sat there, shook her head and laughed.
I went out and tried to get Rachael to come back in
and eat breakfast.She made me bring her a cheeseburger when we
left. No way was she going back in there.

   I called dispatch, they located me a load of rootbeer and
ginger ale going to Florida, I fueled the truck,picked up the
up the load and headed east. Wanda and Rachael rode along too
We were plumb out of Texas before Rachael would talk to me.