BATHROOM BOUNCER
By Mel Hansen, Eighteen Wheeler
Philosopher
This morning at the truck stop, I
went into the men's rest room where no one at the 6 washes sinks. Upon leaving
a few minutes later all 6 sinks were occupied with either someone shaving or
brushing their teeth etc. There were six of us with our backs to the wall
waiting to wash our hands.
The ol boy standing next to me
could have been a dead ringer for my great friend, Russ Harris, except for the “Snydly
Whiplash” wide handlebar mustache! One big tough individual! Bull Wagon jockey
for sure! The sweat stained hat ban around his black cowboy hat was a fairly
good indicator.
The guy in front of him, after
shaving and brushing his teeth, proceeded to take off his t-shirt and laid it
on the counter! My Russ lookalike friend, looks down at me and says in a calm
baritone tone, “oh hell no!”
In still a calm tone, but at a
level all in the room, maybe then some, could hear says, “enough of this
sh*t!! This truck stop provides shower
rooms...SO USE THEM INSTEAD OF THIS BATHROOM!”
The six occupants of the sinks, two
white European dudes, three Indians with turbans around their heads, and one Mexican, immediately stop and look in
the mirrors at us behind them, but just as quick resume their spit bath
procedures out of the hand sinks.
The big European dude in front of
my Russ lookalike friend turns and says to him in an accent somewhat hard to
understand. “Sorry! I don't understand
English!”
My Russ lookalike friend gets nose
to nose with him and says “well apparently you understand and speak enough
English to say what you just said. I
believe you understand more than you let on.
You'd have to because you drive a truck, but I'll use hand language for
ya!”
My Russ lookalike friend grabs
the shirt and bathroom bag off the counter and chucks them out into the
entrance! Then grabs the dude by the arm
and drags him out the entrance!
My Russ lookalike friend is
almost ran over by the remaining 5 guys, three of whom still had toothbrushes
in mouths, as they were headed for the
entrance before they were introduced to hand language!
My Russ lookalike friend walks up
to the sink. I walk up to the one next to him. He looks over at me with a grin
and says. “I guess if Trump can take America back, I can take back the hand
washing basins at truck stops!
My reply to him with my own
grin...I reckon so!
