Two trucker stories.

On my way down to my grandma's in Indiana last weekend, I encountered two special truckers.

Special Trucker #1: As it happens, I am sort of a peeping tom when it comes to driving. I like to look around and see who is driving what, what they have in the back of their car, how many stuffed animals people cram into the small space between the top of the back seat and the window. (One time Michael and I saw this car that was completely full of STUFFED PANDAS. Seriously- there was a full size one sitting in the passenger seat. You couldn't even see through the back seat windows. It was fantastic.) Anyway, truckers are fun because they have those huge side mirrors so you can see their trucker faces before you're even nose to nose with them. HOWEVER, sometimes they catch you staring at them, much like one did on I-69. And he honked twice when I drove by. Which is a bit unnerving, particularly when I've done some informal research and found that they do this more in the summer when you're wearing shorts than in the winter when you're bundled up. Not that I'm like, always staring at truckers or anything. This is longitudinal research, conducted over a span of years.

Special Trucker #2: I did not stare at this trucker. I did, however, stare at the back of his truck on which he had spray painted: HUMPIN' AND DUMPIN'. As my grandma's is a decent drive, I spent a lot of time thinking about what this might mean. I can see where maybe trucks would dump loads I guess, but I couldn't come up with anything for humpin' that I feel like repeating. My cousin suggested that maybe it meant humpin' over the bumps on the road. I don't feel so solid on that one...

While we're on the subject of inappropriate word combinations though, another slot in that category could be filled with the McDonald's billboard I saw this week. It was advertising some sort of breakfast steak wrap revulsion which said: Wake me. Steak me. I couldn't decide with myself whether that bothered me because it sounded like more like a death plea or as being remotely suggestive... Inappropriate. Either way.