CarrollBlog 2.24

I knew a guy who owned a moving van. One of those 16 wheel monsters, this was back in the 70's when trucks were trucks and unlike the automatic transmission models of today, it had so many gears that a driver spent most of his time shifting through them when he was driving in town.Once I asked this man if I could drive it and he said sure. My first mistake came within thirty seconds of sliding behind the wheel. After turning on the ignition, I put the transmission in first gear. Sitting in...