All week the guest had told the girl that they needed to get on a truck and go back to Florida to Merrill Lynch to take care of things. The couple got in several fights that week because the girl was so upset, stressed and keyed up that she was at her wit’s end. She just wanted to go home. She wanted to have a bed and a job and not worry about where her next meal was coming from and how cold she was going to be at night.
At the end of the week the guest met a driver, Sam. Sam needed help with a problem he was having with his truck. The guest helped him and while the two of them were out smoking Sam told the guest that if he got a load going east he would take the couple with him.
The girl prayed for this to happen, or anything to happen really. She spent as much time as she dared in the bathroom writing positive things on toilet paper and praying and hoping things would work out.
After a couple of days Sam got a load from Ontario, CA to Maryland. This was at least in the general direction of Florida. The couple cleaned most of the stuff out of the SUV and got ready to leave. The girl was not happy to leave her SUV behind and the stuff that she could not take with her but the guest promised her they would only be gone a few days and that they would come back for it as soon as they got the money from Merrill Lynch.
This was the week of Thanksgiving and the girl realized there was a good chance she would miss Thanksgiving with her family for the first time in 34 years. This was a very depressing thought. She had already missed Halloween and now another holiday without friends and family.
The couple got on the truck with Sam and headed south again and then east. The girl had never been on a truck before and this was a new experience for her. The couple slept on the bottom bunk together and Sam slept in the driver’s seat. The couple tried to get him to sleep on the top bunk but he wouldn’t do it. The drive was interesting and the girl saw parts of the country she had not previously seen and from a lot higher up than she had before.
Sam was a very nice guy. He fed them and kept the guest in cigarettes. The worst part of the whole experience was that both the guest and Sam would smoke all the time making the girl sick. She said something to the guest about it but he told her that they couldn’t ask Sam to stop smoking inside of his own truck so she just had to deal with it. This she could understand but she couldn’t understand why the guest had to join him whenever he lit up a cigarette.
One of the most memorable stops was in Knoxville, TN. Sam liked the couple and wanted to do something special because it was Thanksgiving. On the actual day they ate at the Flying J but on the day afterward he took the couple out for Barbeque at Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-BQ where Sam loved to eat. It was quite yummy and the girl was really appreciative that Sam would want her to have a good meal.
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