Driver's Test

Roger to Akshan

Hi,
I saw your ad on-line and see that you need someone to drive you up to Somerset from Pittsburgh for your driver's test.  I make daily trips to and from the Pittsburgh area most weeks which would bring me right near Somerset.  In your posting you say you are looking for a car, unfortunately I only have a truck, but its a small Chevy S-10 pickup.  I figure $50 should cover the cost of the trip and my time.
Let me know what you think

Akshan to Roger

Roger,

Sorry for the late response.
I think a truck should be fine. That's still a non-commercial vehicle.

Just to make sure:
I need someone to drive me there... then I do the driving test in the truck... then I need to be driven back.

If that makes sense, let me know.

Roger to Akshan

Akshan,
Thats great to hear.  It will be no problem at all.  I'll be making three manure deliveries next week to several farms right near Somerset .
Right now I am flexible on what days, so you just let me know which day that you want to pass your test! Ha, I am talking like you already passed, but I know you will.
Just let me know



Akshan to Roger

Roger,

Thursday and Saturday next week work.

Saturday is better since I don't have to miss class but Thursday is manageable too. Either way it would help if I drove the truck around a little bit (maybe practiced parallel parking) before I do my test.

Roger to Akshan

Akshan,
Next Saturday just may work, but I am going to have to level with you.  I am a manure farmer so basically my truck is loaded fuller than a Don Pablo's commode.  I run animal feces up the mountain to local farms along Route 30.  My little S-10 is not quite large enough to accommodate the growth of my business, and I have been forced to use the interior for storage on occasion.
Thankfully, your driver's test is in the spring, because you can only imagine in a night terror how the cab smells on a 95 degree afternoon in July.  No worries though my friend, I keep a bottle of Vick's vapor rub on the dash to put under your nostrils to take some sting out of the smell.
I also wanted to check beforehand to make sure its OK that the truck has no seatbelts.  I removed them last summer after I hit a shed that came out of nowhere, and I had trouble getting out of the car before the fire started..  The cops claimed I was under the influence of alcohol and methamphetamine, but I don't see how they could have smelled anything besides the four and a half tons of  farm slurry (liquid manure) I was hauling in several hundred 2-liter Ginger Ale bottles.
I'll be in the city next week for an AA meeting and to meet with my parole officer, so you can test drive the car and practice your parking then.  You are going to want to wear some older clothes, because I'll be hauling a 3-ton to a farm in Buterl.  And if you can catch a sinus infection between now and next week, you'd be doing your nostrils a favor.
Just let me know,
Roger