Truck Driving Diva

I had a crazy thought a few weeks ago. Okay, I have crazy thoughts everyday and write posts about them, but this particular one might actually have some merit to it.


I've been trying to get my husband back home from overseas and working in the States for a while now. He's been a contractor for two years and that is just way too long to be gone. He's been sending out resumes stateside for years with no results.


So I'm driving home one night from the gym and I notice all the trucks on the road. My husband actually has a CDL, along with all of his other qualifications.


I could get a CDL too, and we could be a dynamic driving team.


I've been playing with this idea now for a few weeks, weighing the pros and cons. Here's what I've come up with:


Pros:

• He is really safe driver. I'm a really fast driver. We'd make a good, reliable team.



• He wants to travel the country together in an RV and this is sort of close to that.



• I could work on my writing while he drives.



• He could sleep while I drive.



• He would be home and we would both be drawing a paycheck.



• We could meet lots of interesting people that I could portray in my work.



• We could stop in little towns all along the way and learn about other regions of the U.S and their individual cultures.



• The Teenager can handle himself on his own. I listened to him work over various people in customer service at Apple the other day (his iPhone has imploded) and he will work them out of a new, free phone before this is all over. Our current service plan insurance only covers the Blackberry that he has. But somehow through his various schemes he now has an iPhone. The Teenager, aka "Akbar the Trader", manipulated some poor kid out of a phone. For more on the Teenager's legendary skills read: Lake Dog Millionaire.


• Getting kinky in the cab.

I think there are a lot of benefits to us doing this, think of the stories I could spin from the road!

Now here are the cons:

• I'm a really bad driver. I've mentioned before that I'm the driver Asians make fun of. When I get stressed out in high traffic situations, I close my eyes. I hope everyone else practices defensive driving because I'm counting on it.


• I'm a little high maintenance. I like to pretend that I can just roll with anything, but that's a lie. My idea of roughing it is perhaps different than other peoples.


• What do you wear?


• I go to the gym at least six days a week. I'll have to convince my husband that pulling off the road every afternoon from 4-7 is a good idea so that we can go work out. It's rush hour anyway, so why be stuck on the highway?


• I have dance class on Saturday, so block out Saturday morning.


• Do either of us ever want to spend that much time together in a very cramped space?


• Would it be worth the money?


• He still smokes, we can't lose time pulling over every time he needs nicotine. I'm a former smoker, so I am sympathetic. But not sympathetic enough to breathe second hand smoke.


• Where will my dressing room be?


• I can't use public rest rooms for anything but the most basic of functions. What happens if I should have to do the unthinkable number two while we are on the road?


• Trying to get kinky in the cab.

Hmmmm. Lots to think about on that one. I have a wonderful vision of us driving the highways and by-ways of America, drinking coffee (him), drinking tea (me), listening to various NPR affiliates and discussing them. Stopping in little road side joints for food (for him) and finding whole food co-ops for me.

I'll have to research it a little more. I did find lots of sites devoted to couples that drive together to check out later.

Love and Kisses,

Cult Diva (the potential lady truck driver.)