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548 miles per day

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Give or take, yeap. A better average would have been 150k to 200k a year. Not hard when you criss cross the country back and forth. Drive 20 hrs for a 12 hr job, sometimes a couple days, just to drive back across for another. Did it for almost 10 years.

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Do you live in St. Francisville?

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No. A bit more north. I’ve never claimed any of these. Parts are cheap and I do my own work. Yet another curse of growing up in a mechanic/body shop.

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poors

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That’s funny…

I once averaged around 200k miles a year. I was trading vehicles every couple years for almost 10 years because of mileage. Fortunately I have zero accidents (other than these events, if you call that an accident) and zero tickets. Zero claims on the same insurance now for 25 years. I hope I never have to.

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You sure you haven’t hit a person and convinced yourself it was an animal?

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Nope. All confirmed what I hit. It’s not like I swerved into the ditch to do so. All run out in front of me.

I just let my section 406 row 34’s go this year after 3 years. You can see the scoreboard just fine. You are out of the sun and rain. Poor man suites. Only complaint I have is how tight it is in there. Made it miserable trying to get out to run to the bathroom or whatever if it was a packed game. I seriously consider moving to the upper west or Skyline, but I let ‘em go all together. 20 years was a good run, but it was time. I’ll still try to make a game or two during the year though.

Slap that PVC pipe for me if you do end up there!

Reminds me of time I was 17 and got pulled over. I’d been drinking and was legally drunk. I knew the officer and he told me to call my momma. I said no, I’ll call anyone else but her, but he said nope, gotta call her. I was sitting on the tailgate and all of a sudden got caught with a right hook. Before I could say anything I had a couple kicks in the ribs and momma was in my face. She’s a paramedic, retired now, but they done called her for me, lol. After that light arse whooping and cussing of how stupid I was and her telling me how she drags idiots like me out of wrecks all the time, I went to jail. Lost my licenses for 90 days and was on probation for a year,

Momma taught me a lesson that night…

I’ve gotten every pair since the 36’s when they first come out. Never wear them. I just like collecting. I’m the same with hats and shirts.

That being said, if anyone has a hookup on the baseball team hat, let me know. They are extremely hard to find. I want another one…

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I came out if school in O&G service where 80 hrs was damn near mandatory and was 120 hrs was pretty usual.

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I was about to say the same thing. I went from going to a class in HS to swinging a hammer and pulling wrenches for no less than 12-14 hrs a day for weeks at a time. Literally 2 days after I graduated. I can’t tell you how many times I went in at 6 am and didn’t leave that bitch till 8-9pm, then realizing we’d missed lunch and all that. Stop and look around and was like damn, it’s already nighttime. What a bunch of pussies man.

Working in Sulphur, only spot I could find open was in Iowa. I hated it. The key was getting a place to stay across the bridge. It took me 6 months, but I ended up in Carlyss. My commute went from over an hr to 10 mins.

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If you can't afford paying a few more dollars to have the dealership service your vehicle then don't come asking for help

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I agree to a point. Majority of people don’t take care of their vehicles, but some do. I grew up running around a GM dealer. I watched the service manager and dealer owner go above and beyond for the ones GM was trying to screw over. Unfortunately that little mom and pop dealer got closed during the bankruptcy, so now we’ve gotta settle for a bigger dealership, and all they wanna do is give you the run around. I’ve had way too many arguments with the service manager who doesn’t know a damn thing. Her dad owns the place. She just works there. Anyways…

Another thing is I knew an older man who had a 6.0 Ford bone stock. It started having problems. Ford tried to deny his warranty because they couldn’t prove what oil he used. I called that bluff also. I had every record of every oil change he did and the oil was Motorcraft 10W30. If you look up the Ford recommendations, it’s anywhere from 5w30 to 15w40. In fact, Ford had a class action lawsuit against them because they had so many claims with the 6.0 and denied warranty for “not using the right oil”. You can’t tell people you’ve gotta use Motorcraft oil. It’s just gotta meet the manufacturer specs. Brand don’t mean shite. Give me a break…