Truck Driving Stories - Tales From The Road

[Shreck]

Get this.. I was getting smokes in Merrill, Iowa a few years ago. 2017 I think.

This extremely old man at the register carded me.

He immediately recognized my last name on my license and asked me if I knew my grandparents. Said they lived next door to him for two years before my dad was born.

He hadn't seen or heard from them in over 70 years but he recognized the name.

A couple months later I was in TN helping my aunt move and I asked her I'd she knew anything about them living in Merrill and she did.

Weird how a guy in his 90's could remember a neighbor from 70 years ago just from a name on an ID. He remembered their names and that my grandpa was fresh out of the Navy at the time.

Your grandpa must have left quite the impression.

 

[Duck]

Your grandpa must have left quite the impression.

There were people behind me in line and my truck was on the fuel island (no room to pull forward) or I'd have pressed him for some history.

 

[Electric Chicken]

"Do you know your grandparents?"

"Of course I know my grandparents."

 

[389 Hood]

"Do you know your grandparents?"

"Of course I know my grandparents."

I never did. They were all dead before I was born.