What's a mudshow? In the early days of the American Circus shows traveled rutted cart tracks through the night to make the next town with their horse drawn parade wagons. Arriving, they washed off the mud and with sparkles and spangles put on a show. Today we travel interstate highways in diesel trucks but circus honors the past by recalling a bit of that clay that stuck to the wheels. We call it a mudshow.
Ben: With so many towns and hamlets on your route, what makes any one town--or lot--distinguishable? I've always been fascinated by seeing route books chock full of names that seem to go by in a blur. Lane Talburt
Lane, early in the season you remember all of the towns, later they're harder to distinguish. Maybe one place has a great bar or coffehouse, another has fine old homes. Some you want to forget as quickly as possible. What makes me laugh is when I pull onto a lot and it suddenly dawns on me that I've been there before with somebody else. I guess it's no surprise that recalling bad lots is easier than recalling average lots. On bad lots the day always seems so much longer.
LOL. And here of course lots are recalled with comments like... "This is the place where Casey tried to dump his shitter tank into buckets." Or, "There a bar around the corner where Casey would always go to shoot pool."
Ben: With so many towns and hamlets on your route, what makes any one town--or lot--distinguishable? I've always been fascinated by seeing route books chock full of names that seem to go by in a blur.
Lane Talburt
Posted by Anonymous | 7:04 AM
Lane, early in the season you remember all of the towns, later they're harder to distinguish. Maybe one place has a great bar or coffehouse, another has fine old homes. Some you want to forget as quickly as possible. What makes me laugh is when I pull onto a lot and it suddenly dawns on me that I've been there before with somebody else. I guess it's no surprise that recalling bad lots is easier than recalling average lots. On bad lots the day always seems so much longer.
Posted by B.E.Trumble | 7:13 AM
It always cracks me up to read Bens Blog because I can picture every lot (ok 98%) after all the years on CM
Posted by Casey McCoy Cainan | 9:33 AM
LOL. And here of course lots are recalled with comments like... "This is the place where Casey tried to dump his shitter tank into buckets." Or, "There a bar around the corner where Casey would always go to shoot pool."
Posted by B.E.Trumble | 9:41 AM
This is the lot where Casey told Shorty to dump his shitter tank with buckets, but shorty thought a drum liner was a better idea,,,LOL
Posted by Anonymous | 3:02 PM