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Post by the light works on Jul 29, 2013 15:38:52 GMT
to spell it out, he was the boss, grandma was the office staff, my uncle was the head mechanic, and my dad bounced between driving, accounting, and running the wrecker. - and I remember having known at least 5 other drivers' names.
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Post by the light works on Jul 29, 2013 15:42:04 GMT
to spell it out, he was the boss, grandma was the office staff, my uncle was the head mechanic, and my dad bounced between driving, accounting, and running the wrecker. - and I remember having known at least 5 other drivers' names. and people wonder why I took to driving this rig like a duck to water: This is what my dad usually drives, now.
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Post by craighudson on Jul 29, 2013 16:29:02 GMT
Ask any Driver......... Driving a desk is known as "Retirement", its being taken off the road, its not nice. Driving a desk means either you are too OLD to drive a truck, too injured, or you lost your licence... Driving a desk means being taken off active duty. Military terms, being away from the front line, it can be seen as a form of promotion for those that deserve a quiet period after a HARD deployment somewhere active.... But civilian terms, unless you choose to take the desk job, it means you are a has-been..... And as an Active driver, its common slang, "My desk does 55" kind of way, that we dont get to sit and stare out of a window at a boring scene all day long......... In other words, driving a desk is the same as working behind one. BTW, what has this got to do with washing hands, washing by hand, or whatever this thread is meant to be about?
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Jul 29, 2013 17:04:38 GMT
Funny, but my first thought on reading the title was hand-washing clothing, and if it is really 'worse' than using a washing machine. When I read it I thought it was about washing dishes by hand. There’s a dish washing machine commercial here in Australia that claims is less cost efficient & that you waste more water washing dishes by hand rather than in a dish washer. Actually this has got me wondering & I think I’m going to make a thread about it. Thanks for the idea Cyber.
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Post by the light works on Jul 29, 2013 17:08:05 GMT
Ask any Driver......... Driving a desk is known as "Retirement", its being taken off the road, its not nice. Driving a desk means either you are too OLD to drive a truck, too injured, or you lost your licence... Driving a desk means being taken off active duty. Military terms, being away from the front line, it can be seen as a form of promotion for those that deserve a quiet period after a HARD deployment somewhere active.... But civilian terms, unless you choose to take the desk job, it means you are a has-been..... And as an Active driver, its common slang, "My desk does 55" kind of way, that we dont get to sit and stare out of a window at a boring scene all day long......... In other words, driving a desk is the same as working behind one. BTW, what has this got to do with washing hands, washing by hand, or whatever this thread is meant to be about? yes, driving a desk is slang for working behind one. and it is the lead in to the anecdote about the problem with peeling his own eggs being that he had no chance to wash his hands first - and in that era, driving a truck meant your hands got dirty.
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