“Home” at the yard – 2249hrs
Well we headed up (over) to the yard today… Prime’s Corporate headquarters and central terminal. My instructor’s wife is about to go into the hospital to have her baby so he’s trying to work his way home. I’ll hang out at his house for a day or two, then we’re back at it. It’ll be nice to have a day or two of “off-time” to rest and relax a little. Today was rough again… rolled into the yard this morning, drop the load we picked up yesterday in Wellston, OH headed to Ochelata, OK in the drop yard for someone else to finish it up. Then we headed over to the training pad for a while so I could practice my backing for the CDL test coming up. A few mis-steps, but over-all passing so I’m good to go there. Then came the rough part… with nothing else to do (we were waiting for another load coming into the yard that would get us closer to the intstructors house), we were forced to take a couple hour nap… I just don’t know how much more of this I can take, I tell ya! VBG
So once we rousted from our late afternoon siesta, my instructor took me to a local place called Lambert’s Cafe. For those of us from the Northeast, think down-home southern-style cooking / eating. Really neat place where they literally throw the hot rolls at you and another guy follows around with a molasses can to pour on that roll…good stuff!!
The soda is brought by the gallon, and so is the coffee… I made the mistake of ordering both… had an awesome salt-cured ham steak with baked potato and baked beans… what’s kinda neat about this place is there’s about a half dozen “sides” waitresses / waitors wandering around with things like fried potatos, ochra, and various other “side dishes”. What was also cool is that the meal is served in this ginormous frying pan…had to be a 12″ across and they just pile everything in.
Had a good laugh about half-way through dinner… apparently one of the other customers had made the comment to our waitress about having to need a wheelchair to roll his butt out…well surer than shit, she went and got him a real wheelchair to roll him out!!! The place was busting up laughing. Even though I think I could have used one myself… I refrained this time! LOL
We roll out first thing in the morning headed to Hendersonvill, MO working our way to Omaha, NE where the instructor lives… I’ll keep ya posted during my “mini-vacation”.