ANOTHER GREAT DAY! ANOTHER GREAT BUS ADDED TO THE FLEET!

[DrivingMissLazy]

I'm sure you had a great post...but I did not even try to read it as submitted.  Please try using reasonable length paragraphs instead of one long monolog.  Easier to read.  Other than that....congradulations with your new coach! 

Sorry but I majored in shop, not english! I did graduate, but not with my english teachers blessings! LOL !   BK 

Was I rude in my honest response to this? Just curious as I received a private email explaining I should have responded with a thanks for the corrective criticism instead of being rude about it. (I think, the email I received is harder to comprehend the message than my posts are! LOL!)    BK  

Not really rude but I really do not think it requires a degree in Journalism or English literature to break up a long post into several paragraphs in order to make it easier to read. In fact my English schooling was probably much less than most of the people on the board. My early schooling was in a one room schoolhouse with only six students scattered thru out the 1st to the 8th grade. When I got to High School all the students were so far ahead of me that I never really caught up.

And you are not the only member that posts long articles or opinions without any breaks that make them difficult to read,  So do not feel bad about this.

I have in the past considered breaking up some of the very long posts without any breaks or correcting some misspelled words but I am sure some would resent this action. In fact I believe you once chided me for correcting an error in one of your posts. LOL

Richard

[rv_safetyman]

Hey guys.  The reading solution is really simple. 

Most browsers have a "view"  button and under that is a text size option.  Hit the increase a couple of times and it is easy to read. 

When it come to BK is it well worth doing .

Jim

[Don Fairchild]

BK;

Keep up the story telling. Don't let anybody get to you.

Heck it's the only time I get to here from you. lol

Don

[kyle4501]

Hey BK,
Remember what I once said about what they could do if they couldn't take a joke . . .       

We had a spirited discussion getting that one sorted out. 


Your short response didn't seem out of line to me. . . . .


My only issue was with the title, I was so ready to read about you finally buying a real bus, a SCENICRUISER ! ! !  LOL

[Lin]

Richard,
    Your last post had the phrase "was probably" repeated a second time.  I think that I do not have any excuse but sometimes am guilty of not breaking the paragraphs.

Where's the second part of the story.  I've got a guy interested in the movie rights.

[DrivingMissLazy]

Richard,
    Your last post had the phrase "was probably" repeated a second time.  I think that I do not have any excuse but sometimes am guilty of not breaking the paragraphs.

Where's the second part of the story.  I've got a guy interested in the movie rights.

Thanks Lin. We all are capable of making mistakes and I am no exception. I do appreciate someone advising of them so I can go back and make a correction which I have done.

As for the "rest of the story" I am afraid it would get boring very fast. LOL

Richard

[Busted Knuckle]

Awe shucks fellers, yall gonna make my head swell plum up! LOL! I do sometimes get them long mono paragraph posts. But I'll be honest with ya'll I really do have my priorities screwed up back in school.

My mixed up priorities were auto mechanics, metal shop, girls, THE TRACK!, & hod rods! When April or may came around all of us cut school at least 2 or 3 days a week and went out to the track and partied! If we wasn't in school you knew we could be found in the first turn in the infield which was named "the snake pit!" (If I have explain you probably wouldn't understand!)

Shoot the way I graduated I really cheated myself of needed education, but it wasn't important to me then. Girls, cars, & $ was all I cared about.

I goofed of and sailed thru math, p.e., shop, history & science. But had trouble with English, economics, and health. Health was bad for me because it was given to me as my first class of the day twice. Which meant if I made it to class I slept thru it. At one time I worked 3 different jobs, one of which had me in & out all hrs of the night running AAA & police wrecker calls.
So one weekend I put a cam and lifters in my health teachers car.(she had a little Pontiac with a worn out cam!)

Now English and I hated each other, I took English all 4 yrs of HS and in my senior yr I still needed 2 of 6 credits for it! The first 3 yrs I had teachers who hated shop & cars, and any boys who liked them! Then my last yr, I got a male teacher who had a slightly older corvette ('73 or '74 BB 4 spd). And while I was still struggling in his class I offered to tune it up for him. Well what started out as a simple tune up, turned into a radical cam, a huge "offenhouser" high rise dual manifold, 2 huge "holley" double pumpers, and a wild set of side pipe headers that could be uncapped before the pipes! And then in went into the body shop and got a big huge hood scoop to cover all that! Well I passed!

Now economics, well I didn't have any likes or particular dislikes either way about it. But it was at the end of the day. And if I cut it I spend 2 hrs at the track instead of 1, before going to work at Job 1! Also I'd grown up with and gone to grade school with the teachers son, plus had his wife as a 3rd grade teacher! I'd been to their house many times up until HS went they decided it'd better if they sent him to a private school, "to keep him from running with the wrong crowd!" Then when I came close to grade time I showed up for class and "Mr.T" told me I was wasting his and my time "showing up to class after 28 unexcused absences!" But when he was calling each of us up and showing us his grade book in the top drawer of his desk, I slipped a bottle of his favorite Scotch out of my jacket and into the drawer. Suddenly that big ol' F got an extra leg and became an A!

So even if I was smart enough to get what I wanted, I cheated myself out of what I needed. Cars were simple to work on, and there wasn't no fancy high tech electronics and weird difficult to diagnose systems to make them go & go what we thought was fast! (by today's cars, they were fast, but not as fast, or quick and dang sure didn't handle like they do now!
I'd made up my mind I was gonna work on cars or drive a truck for a living, which I did both of. Drove dump trucks & tow trucks. And worked on them & cars when not driving or at home nights and weekends.

Then they started computerizing cars, and I put my tools in storage and went into driving big tow trucks full time, and working on big trucks at the same time saying "at least they can't computerize these! All it takes is fuel, air and compression!" LOL! Wrong!!! Ding dada bing! So I said the heck with it and started driving them instead.

Then one day I decided to buy one. Well as I always say "if gonna own junk, ya better be able to work on it too!" So I puttered around with that ol' piece of crap, long enough to pay it off, and trade it off for a newer one. Then it burned to the ground, and I was forced to find away to finish delivering the load I had.

Well, well well, ya know what none of the major truck leasing outfits would even think of leasing an individual small time owner operator a truck back then. While frantically calling around one of them told me "get me a letter showing a $250,000.00 line of credit from your bank, and I'll lease ya a truck!" I told him "Bleep, beep, bleep if I had a $250,000.00 line of credit, I'd go buy a truck!"
He laffed and said "son right now there giving them away, you can get one by jest sign'n yo name!"

So I think why not, sure enough, Houston Freightliner was really willing to help. "Pick out what ya want, pick a color, engine/trans, well come up with X down and come take yer pick of these 3!

So dumb me, I do.

Then things are looking up I paid off the private contract for the first one 2 weeks before the insurance paid me for it!

So then I get a dumb idea, if I had another one I could hire a driver and make twice as much! LOL! (what I meant was go broke twice as fast! LOL!).

Well hah, what a dummy fell for it hook line and sinker. The freightliner salesman "Say's why buy 1? I can sell ya these 2 trucks today with the payment of 1!"  Wham did he see me fall of that there turnip truck or what! Cool 2 brand spank'n new semi tractors and only 1 trailer!

Yup you guessed it gotta buy another trailer to pull behind the second trk! Well by now my credit is maxed out. And the trailer folks suggest, I lease the truck & driver onto a company and pull their trailers! Well on & on.

Then in 2000 I had one get wrecked bad, and the DOT, INS, fuel and everything else just all became to much! I said good bye to them, and went back into driving big wreckers again.

Well my uncle had been bugging me for 3-4 yrs to come drive bus for him. (which I politely declined). But the wait the shop next to his bus lot came up empty with dirt cheap rent. Shoot I could piddle and make that payment. Then he wanted me to "service his buses" for him. Shoot service became maintain! And the rest is known history!

So forgive me if I ain't got good grammar skills, and have trouble comprehending huge technical manuals. But if I can get my hands on it, and study it long enough, I'll find a way to fix it!

I may not be a scholar, or a gentile, and I may never get rich. But every bit of what I got, is what I got and it's all PAID for! Just remember I started with NOTHING & still got most of it left!    BK   

[cody]

BK, I don't care how you speel, or what words you run together, I never met your grammar but you mom and dad are great. lol