Hey Durwood, great tale, but you know I think we are married to sisters.
Rich Reul
1951 3604
Dixon, IL
rreul@cin.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Durwood B. Darbin" <dhckdkcsk@hotmail.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:03 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] AD birthday card
> Well it was one day to SHIMBOs birthday and I decided that the prudent
thing
> to do was to get her a birthday card. I whipped into the nearest Target
> store and soon I was in business. I got her one about cats puking on the
> rug and peeing on the bed etc. cuz she has a herd of those critters in the
> house. Real romantic eh? (BTW she really liked the card.)
>
> Anyhow as I was perusing the racks I spotted a card that seemed to have an
> AD front end with a chrome grill. Sure enough that's what it was! The AD
> was kinda distressed being light blue and red and purple and a dent in the
> fender and a rusty scraped bumper sans splash apron. The grill was dented
> and beat up. The verbiage was 'classic, stylish, experienced, timeless,
> spunky ...' and the inside said 'OLD happy birthday. SHIMBO is old but
not
> quite as old as the AD but awfully damn close for sure. The card was made
> by 'RECYCLED Paper Greetings' with a bar code of 42823-46195 8 01296. If
> the AD was white I would have thought that they took a picture of my
truck.
> I'm here to tell you that that card will get you misty eyed if you look at
> it for very long. I was really misty and bought the card. I was gonna
give
> it to her for her birthday but decided to go with the cat thing cuz she
> isn't really that thrilled with my Pcup. Really deep down I know that she
> actually loves it but knows that if she lets any of those feelings out
then
> I would have the green light to do a total restoration and never be around
> the house and will not have any money for sushi and flowers (they only die
> anyway). Oh Well!!
>
> I should have told this story when it happened but I didn't so I will tell
> it now. A few weeks before Christmas SHIMBO decreed that I was to
accompany
> her to town to procure a dead evergreen so that the kids could put lights
> and stuff on it and the cats could do their damndest to knock it down. To
> that I decreed that ifin I was abuyin, Weuns was agoin' in the Pcup.
SHIMBO
> protested mumbling something about 'The White Elephant' but relented cuz I
> was abuyin. HEHE. Off we went and I could tell that she wasn't really
> impressed with the road view through the almost nonexistent cab floor. We
> arrived at the tree place and found the 'perfect tree'. Yeah right,
perfect
> to the tune of 50 bucks (grrrrr). SHIMBO dispatched the tree boy to place
> the tree in the back of 'That White Elephant'. He lingered until I got in
> the truck and asked if I knew where he could get a truck like mine. Then
> the Kicker was, "yours is SOO COOOL!" I was smiling from ear to ear and
> SHIMBO was frowning. She was depressed and decreed that I was to take her
> to the local bagel place and buy her a bagel sandwich. I obeyed and
> wouldn't you know it the only place open to park was right in front of the
> bagel store. We entered and were soon enjoying the trendy bagel
sandwiches
> at the bar by the front window which happened to be right in front of the
> Pcup. The waitress came by and asked if we knew who owned 'that truck'.
I
> fessed up and she then stated, "It's totally awesome". SHIMBO was in a
> flaming downward spiral but I was on top of the world. She decreed that
we
> should head for the barn via the local King Soopers. After mass
quantities
> of nourishing material were purchased, I was placing the purchase in the
bed
> of the Pcup when a car stopped in the parking lot. One of the occupants
> therein pointed and stated in a loud voice, "THAT'S what you can get me
for
> Christmas! I wonder how many of those Santa has at the North Pole?"
SHIMBO
> was down for the count. I saw that she needed to be cheered up and I did
my
> part by not complaining about the felines for almost one whole day. Hey,
> that's the least that I could do, Right? Time marches on.
>
> The struggle continues,
> Durwood
> 51 1/2 ton 5 window
>
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