7:45 am.   Awake and sitting.   Our load isn’t due to be picked up until 6 pm but dispatch is checking to see if we can pick up earlier.   Headed to Barnes and Noble in New Jersey.   

9 am.  Shopping and walking around Walmart.  Didn’t need much but walking was nice.  

11:45 am.  Appointment got rescheduled to 1 pm.   Going to head on back over now just in case they get it done sooner.   

12 pm. Got a door pretty quick. That’s good.    

DG: This is the Common Core warehouse where food for little skulls of mush is packaged and distributed to indoctrination centers all around the country. And to think I am taking part in that. Think I’d rather be hauling candy. 

Annie – 1:25 pm.  All loaded and ready to go.   37,000 pounds of assorted books.   

DG: Stopped at a Petro in Kingdom City for fuel. Hey, since we have time, what about a shower?  Sounds wonderful.  So that’s what we’re doing. No pictures please. 

Annie – 2 pm.   Well, crap.   I cracked a tooth.  I’m hoping it’s one with a root canal because thankfully it’s not hurting. But instead of going straight to New Jersey as planned we are going through Kentucky so Greg can drop me off at moms so I can go to the dentist Monday.   Looks like he will have to go on to New Jersey  without me.   It will only add about 100 miles to the trip and we have time since load isn’t due until Monday.    Good time for it to happen if it had to happen. 

4:30 pm.  Coming through St. Louis – again. 

 7:30 pm. Stopped for the night at a rest area in Mount Vernon, Illinois. Ran in to the bathroom real quick and I heard this girl say she was going in the men’s room. Well, Greg just went in there so this should be interesting. Turns out she didn’t see the women’s restroom and was not going in the Unisex bathroom and then yelled and said the F word a couple dozen times about how this was against women’s rights and how she didn’t serve in the F military for this kind of stuff. Well you get my meaning. It was a very colorful conversation to say the least. She said she understood the ransgender thing but didn’t want a man in the women’s bathroom upon which I remarked “well, didn’t you just come out of the men’s room?” She is wearing very high short shorts and a tank top so I told her the boobs gave her away. Then, somehow we go from that to gorillas and how she didn’t serve in the military for gorillas to get shot because a woman couldn’t keep up with her kid. She has 6 f….. Kids and knows where each one of them are at all times. Hers never fell in any cages at the zoo. Her boyfriend is staring at the map in the rest area like its a great novel. Then he and Greg are looking at it. Too funny.  

Their pick up is parked next to our truck so we are all walking back to the parking lot together.   She gets in their truck and gets out again and asks me if there was an F…… Ladies room in the rest area to which I replied – “where did you think I went”.  Then her boyfriend yells out the truck window “told you”!   Then she says “wow, I guess I need to calm the hell down”.   

I’m totally exhausted now.   Been on a roller coaster.   Haha.   They are going to Cave in A Rock park.   I feel sorry for the Rocks.

DG:  Oh, you never know what or who you are going to run into on the road. Can’t say that I was surprised to see her in the men’s room. I had finished and was washing my hands when she came in so nothing to see here. On her way to a stall she did ask if I was okay with this and I said as long as she didn’t use a urinal as that may be a little messy. All in all in was an interesting and friendly encounter.  

Here’s what a truck load of books looks like. And I stand corrected. I don’t think they are text books as they are going to Barnes and Noble. 

Annie 8 pm.  Me having a picnic with Greg.   At least the bunnies were fun to watch.  Just kidding.   Doc called and that’s always nice.   

For those of you who forget that last minute gift or need a make up gift on the way home – good news.   You can now buy your loved on a teddy bear out of the vending machine at the rest area.    Seriously! 

11:30 pm.  Turning in.  Should be in ashland early afternoon.   Good night y’all.  

DG:  And on that note we say good night and God bless.