New Song

[catsittingstill]

I really think it speaks for itself.

Go Little Penske
Lyrics and melody by Catherine Faber

I gotta washer, I gotta dryer,
Just one problem; they're in Knoxville.
Lucky they've got trucks for hire
Go, little Penske, go!

(chorus)
Oh, go little Penske go,
Oh, little Penske! Go little Penske!
Oh, go little Penske go,
Go little Penske, go!

The smallest truck they had for rent's
About the size of a railroad boxcar.
Got no scratches, got no dents, oh
Go little Penske, go.

Loaded in and tied with cables,
Those appliances look lonely.
Lowes has got a sale on tables,
Go little Penske, go!

Gosh that table looks so minor
There's a bed, and there's some bookshelves;
Kip's been wanting a recliner…
Go little Penske, go!

We could raise a family in those
With our bed and board and bookshelves,
All we need are stairs and windows
    (spoken)  And water, and sewer, and power, and phone, garbage pickup, newspaper subscription, DSL is a must, and cable would be nice…
(sung) Go little Penske, go!

chorus, twice, to give the audience one last chance to catch on to the words.
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Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that gas trucks had less omph than diesel. I surely did notice that the truck had less pickup than, say, a car, but I figured that was just how it is with trucks.

Moving from Spokane to Tennessee, I came over the Rockies myself and I just geared down into 2nd and took it easy and it worked okay. The spooky part for me was where they were doing road work for miles and miles and miles and shoved us over to run one lane coming and one lane going in what would normally be a one-way chunk of highway. They did it, like 4 times, and I think I only ran over 2 traffic cones... But I thought that was unfairly challenging for my second day of driving a truck.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Diesel engines don't necessarily have more horsepower, but they have more *torque* when under load, which means (much handwaving here) you don't have to gear down as far to get up the hill, and can, in practice, do it faster. (It was *really* discouraging to see fully-loaded 18-wheelers go screaming by at 55 when I'm sitting over here in the slow lane at 35 with my flashers on.... (Technically minimum speed on any Interstate highway is 40, unless posted faster...)

The fun part for me wasn't left-right alignment; I grokked that pretty quick. (Part of my learning-to-drive experience was Dad's 3/4-ton cargo van, which only had windows on the front doors... you learned to use mirrors PDQ! Knowing mirror technique I could look and check my alignment with the lane stripes...) The Interesting bit was the first time I came sailing up to a stoplight and figured out real fast just how far it took to STOP! (Half-a-truck into the intersection!) No blood, no foul, but after that I drove like Grandma for a while... :) I still drive a fully-loaded truck like a chauffeur... as smoothly as possible.

What time of year did you move, and what route? Anything you'd change? (Other than the frelling road destruction!) I could see doing the long road trip again sometime when I had some serious free time...