Warning: This will put you to sleep

Recently I have been in a bit of a foul mood.. ROADRAGE at its finest... My stress levels were at an all time high and there was no obvious reason for me to be feeling this way...

I did manage to rationalize the cause of my anger and am happy to say that all has passed..

In extremely good spirits, I set out on my journey last Sunday. An alternate route due to work issues (not mine, of course)

So I set off on my course with the first stop being Lexington, South Carolina.. Only a 3-4 hour drive, so naturally I left at late as possible...

After a good nights sleep ( I was 30 minutes late to my first delivery) I began my day. Lexington- delivered.... Charlotte, NC-delivered

BOOM

What the.... I looked in my mirror and saw the large chunks of rubber fly out from underneath my trailer. Luckily there was a truck stop 2 miles up the road. Man, I just checked those tires....

I ended up staying at the truck stop for 4 hours waiting on a single tire to be replaced. Needless to say, at this point my next customer would not be able to unload me until the next morning. So I travelled the remaining 1 and 1/2 hours and called it a day...

In all, I ended up only "working" 4.5 hours on Monday. Normally, this would really get under my skin, but I had decided to just go with the flow... Not. Gonna. Piss. Me. Off. !

Tuesday started off fine.. 2 stops delivered in Youngsville, North Carolina.... Another in Richmond, Virginia... With the delays from Monday, there was no way I was going to make my Philly delivery on Tuesday, so I just strolled in the appropriate direction and found a spot to camp out at the truck stop in Elkton, MD..(Only an hour from my next stop)

Tuesday evening turned out to be a rather nice surprise... I ran into an old friend (okay, so we actually had spoken and knew we would both be in the area) and he bought me a lovely birthday dinner. We watched a movie and cut up like teenagers... We bring the silliness out in each other!!
Tuesdays total work log- about 6 hours.

Wednesday went rather smoothly. Final 2 stops delivered and 1 return pick-up made... I was heading home... This should have been a quick 2.5 day trip, but in all in ended up being 4 days.
And surprisingly, it really did not bother me a bit, which is unusual. However, because of the shortened mileage, I had to schedule myself to make an extra trip this week... Which normally irritates me. I hate having to work extra!!! So a quick trip down to Tifton, Georgia and i am done for the week...

There were several situations throughout the week that should have caused me a little stress and grief... But I am really over it!!!! Wooooo hooooo.. It is good to be back!! ( to being myself)