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The Magic Headline: It’s been hot!!!

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PUT ON SOME GOOD MUSIC Gotta love music! I have a whole selection to choose from on my Laptop, slash GPS, slash world famous writing machine. My main play list is somewhere around fifteen hours! I can drive all day long and not hear the same song twice. Sometimes, however, I do want to hear something more then once. I usually have a song of the week, if you want to know what it is at any given moment, give my house a call, whom ever answers will probably know what it is. If I ain’t singing it out loud for everyone’s enjoyment then it’s been playing over and over on the laptop! For some reason my tribe has no taste in music and the room suddenly clears. It’s amazing the power music can have, it has this amazing ability to take one back in time. One song might remind me of a girl I once knew while another could take me back to a certain time, or even just a short moment in time that has long passed. Quite often, my ‘Song of the week’ is something new, brand new even and other times it co...

Another ‘go back in time’ moment

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Well, I did again folks. I had another one of those ‘what was I thinking’ events that caused me to want to go back in time and ‘do it over’. I had picked up another backhaul of empty bottles going to a company in Allentown, PA. This time it would be a live unload, meaning I’d wait while they unloaded the product. Before I left Elmira, NY, I sealed the trailer with a metal seal. I remember thinking as I did that, I would need to use my hammer to break it when I needed to open the doors. I arrived at the customer and was quickly given a door assignment, and proceeded to set myself up to back in. I got out and went to open the doors and noticed there was already some dude on a forklift anxiously awaiting my arrival and ready to get to work, which is a good thing. As I stood at the trailer doors I realized I had forgotten my hammer to break the seal. I thought about it for a second or two, and for some reason I was too lazy to walk back to the truck for my hammer, besides, this guy was wai...