don't dare to park at gene's

sometimes i think that as long as i live, i will never understand people......i have a saying "i used to be disgusted, now i'm just amused".......well, sometimes i'm still disgusted......

after we delivered in kent, wa, we went down to sumner to pick up a load and since it wasn't gonna be ready for a few hours, we dropped our trailer and bobtailed across the highway to a little truckstop to restock our cooler and get some lunch......we noticed the sign as we were pulling on the lot saying that it cost $10 to park there for 12 hours.....but we weren't staying the nite, we were just shopping......since we were bobtailing, we backed into a little corner behind the building that a truck with a trailer couldn't have gotten into and went inside......now, in the scheme of things, $53 isn't a whole lotta money, but when you're talking about lunch, it kinda is.....i mean, geesh, we weren't at outback, or olive garden.....we picked up some cold drinks, and some sandwiches and chicken out of the deli case ...........

we headed out to the truck and decided to eat our lunch there and then head back across the highway.....about an hour later here came a boy wanting to know if we were spending the nite and when brad told him no, that we were gonna be leaving soon to pick up our load, he said we'd have to pay to sit there.....brad explained to him that we'd just spent $53 there on food, but that didn't matter........i swear, if it hadn't been that i thought the chicken was gold-encrusted, i'd have flung the last dry, overcooked piece at his head........

so anyway.....if you find yourself on wa 167 in sumner, at the west valley hwy exit and you think you need a cold drink, have your $10 to park ready and in hand, so that you can pay to park while you spend your hard earned money on that drink......gene's is the name, parking's the game.