A
note from Rosemary: I have to admit, this only took me about 45
minutes to write. I was trying to think of something that I could
write that I know quite a bit about. Naturally, the answer was
trucking, but how to make it funny? This was the result.
A
Comedy of Errors
A
short story by Rosemary
August
2020
Doug
North and his wife, Carol, were truckers. For many years, Doug had
pulled flatbed all over the country, while Carol stayed home with the
kids. Now that the kids were out of the house, Carol traveled with
Doug.
On
this particular day, they were in a backwater town, somewhere in the
middle of northern Idaho, having just loaded up some treated fence
posts. Doug was throwing a strap over the load when out on the
two-lane highway, a car blew a tire.
It
had been three weeks since Rashda had gone downstairs to see what
happened to Belinda. He had never confirmed what I thought occurred
to her, but his statement referencing 
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