mmmm nostalgia

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i was on youtube looking up 90's songs and i never noticed on a certain song that this one line is COMPLETELY TRUE. the song is one week by the barenaked ladies the line goes as follows ""gotta get in tune with sailor moon cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing" and it is pretty easy to miss, the song is so fast, but yeh, i FINALLY caught that today and i just busted out laughing the second time i saw the lyrics (i watched a lyric video, and the first time i was just dumbfounded, like wait did i read that right? turns out i did)

AND maxine is out of the shop. she is a white freightliner FL 80 60-40 split body garbage truck, made in 2003. she has a CAT engine and an allison 5 speed automatic transmission (i think, she has reverse neutral, 1-4 and then drive) she has one drive axle and a tag axle (the extra axles you see on dump trucks usually that usually have the smaller tires) she is almost exactly 11 feet and 8 inches high, no idea about the length and width other than "about the size of semi truck with no trailer" too everyone she is merely a number, CCV2 (or her DOT number which only the DOT would really need, so i don't know it actually) to them she is merely "a truck" but to me her primary operator she is MY truck. there may be many like her, but she is mine. and as werid as it is to say it, i am hers. to anyone who drives commercial vehicles, or who knows about the people who do, you would know that driving such a big vehicle is actually kind of a team effort between the driver and the vehicle. they are so big and heavy that they are actually hard to drive without proper training. and in the case of older trucks, the symbiosis that happens between the vehicle and the driver. the driver can tell you if the vehicle they drive everyday is fine or if it needs to go to a shop. that applies to it's driving habits. i can't really tell you how, but i know my truck can do a good 25-30 MPH in most turns, even fully loaded. when in the standing position i have the habits i do because of my trucks "personality quirks" and i try to treat her right, and she does me right so i am happy she is back. i can't keep driving these unknown trucks with their own problems i don't know how to work around....
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