Steve lives in a parallel universe....

The bottom line is just that Steve is simply not a very smart man.

As a driver he gets lost, barely knows east from west, can't read a map and doesn't read road signs well.  What am i doing here??

Let's see, what was today's latest....  Oh yes, i remember.  He is a musician.  He plays over 30 instruments including the bassoon, oboe, trombone, saxophone, piano, drums, guitar, etc.  How a poor, fatherless black man from the Baltimore ghetto (by his own description) learned to play the bassoon and 29 other instruments is beyond me, but i'll choose to give him the benefit of the doubt.

What i find harder to believe is that he has written over 400 songs that are "really good" and that they will make him a millionaire (so why are you driving a truck, Steve...?).  He has a rickety old guitar that is missing a tuning peg and simply will NOT stay in tune that he broke out this evening to pick on some blues.  And no, it was not very good.  He asked me to tune it for him first. I asked him to play one of his songs, but his response was, "Oh  no, those are private.  M-m-m."  I didn't have the energy to inform him that it's hard to make money on songs if you won't play them for people.  But of course, he was worried that i, as a fellow musician, might "steal" them, so he could not expose his works of genius to an unscrupulous competitor for fear of losing the millions of dollars that are rightfully his.

The chatter and the logic go on like that non-stop, people.  I am thoroughly exhausted by him. I have GOT to get off of this truck.  He also does nothing but badmouth CR England, which gets to be a downer when i'm already in a cranky mood from his constant babbling.

Drove through an unbelievably wicked rain and lightening storm in North Carolina this evening.  Visibility was almost zero, even with the wipers on high speed.  Glad to have found a Flying J truck stop.  Got showered and feel a little better.

Steve is asleep.  The only time he shuts up.  I may put a pillow over his face tonight.... God help me.

Stay safe.....

KWA