Bah humbug!

Some days a guy just can't win for losing. Yesterday was one of those.

Due to the upcoming holiday I had been told to plan on a double Ab-Lubb for Friday. I told dispatch that was fine, "just make the first one an early one!" I received word that the first one would be ready by five Friday morning. I had a fitful sleep and finally when I rolled out of bed about two-thirty I began to get ready for my day. I was on the road by a quarter to five and in Lubbock prior to seven in then morning. I backed to the dock and was number two in line to be unloaded. Here the plan went haywire because inbound product had to go somewhere which means lots of outbound trucks. When the dock crew began splitting time between inbound and outbound it became evident I was in for a long wait. By the time I cleared the dock, it was ten o'clock. The plan had come unraveled and dispatch informed me my day was a single, not a double. I glanced at my watch and smiled knowing I would be home shortly after noon. When I returned to Abilene I went to the plant to drop my empty trailer and remembered my insurance card was at the dock office, so I decided to retrieve it. When I grasped the door release lever, I heard a noise in the door and it didn't open. Hhhmmm. I rolled down the window and reached out to pull the outside door handle ..... with no positive result. I looked at the other side of the cab which was obscured by two toolboxes, my cooler, a case of four inch load straps, a storage box filled with specialty items and I realized I was fixing to have to do spring cleaning just to get out of the truck. Finally I was out, grabbed my insurance card and headed to the lock up yard to drop off the truck. When I arrived there I was presented with a dilemma because by the time I put the security code in, went to the opposite side of the truck and climbed in, released the brakes and began moving forward, the gate would time out and close. I kept on looking around to see if candid camera was trailing me. Finally I placed my hat over an electronic eye (which told the gate it was blocked) and I made my way in. On the drive over I decided a linkage had just come off inside the door. Wrong. After spending two hours getting into the workings of the door, I found a control cable had broken. After a quick run to the dealer, forty dollars and another two hours to reassemble the door latch and inside panels, I did a quick check to see if the power windows, the power mirrors and the radio speakers , you know all the necessary items, were still working. I got home after five.

Rats!

It coulda been a sweet day.

I'm off Monday even though I didn't want to be. It's going to be a short week anyhow with the holiday and all.

Sources tell me that Hunter is a big brother. He has a new little sister.

Have a day!