Well, sometimes the best-laid plans of mice and women ... guess you-all want to know why I haven't posted another entry in the last few days. Been kinda busy - well, let me just tell you about it.
All you nice folks on the road know that yours truly, that's me, Nadine Wheeler, am the President of the Mark Willis Fan Club. He's on Sirius Road Dog Trucking Radio, an' if you haven't heard him, well, you must be driving in the Gobi Desert or something.
But anyway, Mark's birthday was August 2nd, an' I had a great idea for celebrating it. Miles had actually gotten a pick-up in Dallas - believe it or not - and it wasn't too far from the radio studio where Mark, that silver-tongued chick magnet, works five days a week. So we pulled over last Monday night in Coppell, Texas, at a parking lot beside one of those huge chain stores which lets us truckers park there. (Thanks again to that store's manager - super store! Super manager!) An' after Miles was snorin' away, I went in and out of that store, buying balloons and helium. I stayed up all night and just filled our entire trailer with balloons of all colors for Mark for his birthday the next day.
Tuesday morning, we're up bright an' early and runnin' east on 635, going towards the exit for Miles' load pick-up an' the radio show building- when I look in the truck's mirror on my side an' see two or three balloons pop out and float away behind us.
Oh, my stars. I couldn't let Miles know what was goin' on, him being so jealous an' so on ... and I had to just sit there an' watch as all of Mark's Happy Birthday balloons got away. Guess at 108 years old, I just didn't have the strength to latch that back door on the trailer like I used to. Oh me. Poor Mark. I'm sorrier than a hound dog trapped at a skunk convention.
Happy Deflated Birthday, Markey. I'll try to do better next year.
You guys and gals stay safe on the road now.
Hugs from Nadine.
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