A Little Girl Made My Week

A little girl about 5 yrs old gave me the arm pump today on I-20 in Texas. She had a big toothless smile. I gave her two toots. She waved her little hand at me as she ducked her head back inside the car. Her Dad also gave me a wave for making his little girl happy.

That warmed my heart after spending a lot of time sitting waiting this week.

Never fails to make me smile.

Whenever I train new students I always tell them that I'm not going to sign off on them becoming a professional driver unless they can correctly answer this question: "what is the proper response when you see a child pumping their fist?" I then demonstrate the action. Most get it right on the first try, but I had one guy who honestly didn't know. Never fear, I taught him well and he went on to graduate with honors. Received an excited text several months later saying he had his first experience putting it into practice. Makes me proud and warm inside knowing the next generation is in good hands.

My trainer taught me well, too!

It always makes me smile. I once had kids walking down the street, when I responded to their arm pump, I could almost hear the one telling the others, "see, I told you so.".

That can turn a bad day good again real quick!

Dennis, that is awesome, thanks for sharing. What is better than that? I love it when that happens.

I'd gotten a fist pump a time or 2 out on the road from kids. Brings back memories of us doing the same thing, as kids to truckers lol....Easy to make a kid smile and make their day too lol

1 of my funniest, I was in my '69 lowered, patina'd VW Bus, @ the drive thru at In & Out burger. As I approached the pick up window, 3 little blonde girls, maybe from 6-10 years old. They came running across the dining area inside, to the windows by the drive thru. All 3 of em gave me a big wave and a thumbs up/peace sign. Made me crack up laughing, so I gave em all the same in return,with a horn toot, they were cracking up laughing.....

Funny, when ever I was out cruisin' around town in my '68 custom muraled, and real flamed, high performance Beetle, I rarely got any looks hahaha... My Bus every time I drove around town, always got looks and high 5's etc

I'd gotten a fist pump a time or 2 out on the road from kids. Brings back memories of us doing the same thing, as kids to truckers lol....Easy to make a kid smile and make their day too lol

1 of my funniest, I was in my '69 lowered, patina'd VW Bus, @ the drive thru at In & Out burger. As I approached the pick up window, 3 little blonde girls, maybe from 6-10 years old. They came running across the dining area inside, to the windows by the drive thru. All 3 of em gave me a big wave and a thumbs up/peace sign.

Hey Stevo, were you a Hippie?

Lol Dennis, hardly a hippy, So Cali is just funny like that..

I used to have hair to my butt, but I cut it all off in 2002 and donated it to Locks of Love...It was around a 35 inch pony tail (15 years growth) in memory of my 6 yr old nephew who died from a brain tumor.

I never forgot how he was embarrassed losing his hair to chemo. He wore a micky mouse hat all the time, and was even buried with it.....

So I grew it for that, don't miss it at all, I like my 1/8 inch short hair now hahaha.....No more $$ on shampoos,conditioners, blow dryers...Bar of soap and I'm good lol

Stevo, sorry about your nephew.

When I worked in Angola, a National co-worker had a 7 year old son with Lukemia. He needed to travel for treatments in South Africa.

To raise money an Expat co-worker with long hair like you had volunteered to have it shaved off for donations. We had a good time watching it come off. He raised a lot of $.

A $10 #2 buzz cut every 2 months works for me :)