Busnuts Christmas

[Busted Knuckle]

Ya'll pick on! I'll just listen and enjoy! I had a music teacher way back in JR High School tell me that I should find an interest more suited to me than play/singing music. (Her exact words were "Bryce I'm sorry but your just not musically gifted & quite frankly the only way you could ever carry a tune is if someone put it in a bucket for you!") Ouch that hurt! But I took her advice and put more interest in turning wrenches and listening to music (loudly) and enjoy it! I was able to get a little bit of a payback on down the road though. About 5-6 yrs later I was driving tow truck and went to pick up a disabled caras I was hooking up the car she asked me if I'd gone to JR High at 108 (IPS #). I told her yes I did, and she told me that she remembered my name and that she'd taught music there. I told her I remembered her, and was ready to take her car to the shop for repair. She rode along and asked how I'd done in school, was was I going to college, yada yada yada. I droped her of at the dealerships service desk, and took the car out and parked in in the lot in front of the garage. Then I took my invoice inside to get a PO from the dealership (since they'd called us!), she met me at the service desk and insisted on paying me directly instead of having the dealer add a mark up to her bill. What she didn't know was that we had a standing agreement with the dealership to charge customers that did this the same rate they did (so they didn't look so bad). When I told her how much, she gasped and said "isn't that awful high just to tow a car a short distance?" I never missed a beat when I told her that "tow trucks, gas, insurance, and professional experince weren't cheap & that if she hadn't noticed I did a great job of hooking up her car and had carried it all the way to the dealership without anyone putting it in a bucket for me!" She was most upset and had called my boss by the time I got back to the shop. He was laffing as I walked in and told me he was "proud that I'd done as the dealership requested and charged their rate ($15 higher than ours) and that I'd told her about costs as I defended the rate, but wanted to know what the hell a bucket had to do with it?" Well all I can say is he was rolling on the floor laffing when I told him and yes I got ribbed many times about it after words in the future! But hey now a days I carry people as long as they get in the bucket (seat), sit down, hold on and shut up! Weee!
  BK 

[cody]

Lol, Bk, I loved it, I'm learning to play the radio now, I've got Am down pretty good and I'm working on FM.  I had a teacher like that back in school too, she said that if I was lucky and studyed hard, with my abilities and skill levels, I might someday attain the distinction of becoming trailer trash.  Well, I'm still working on it, being bus trash is a stepping stone for bigger and better things, maybe someday I can make her proud and reach the goals she set for me lol.