Things We Learn Too Late | By Mel McConaghy
As we travel through our lives we learn. We learn about the changing seasons. We learn that whoever gets the most presents at Christmas, wins. And, we learn...
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Second Childhoods | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy I have been told that as we get older we revert into our second childhood. But, I don’t think it’s true, because I don’t think I ever left my first one. I believe that we never really leave our childhoods, we are only forced by society, and our parents, to start acting more mature. Although I tried …
Is It Time To Retire | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy Years ago, just before I retired, Ron Graham and I had left Abbotsford with our usual load of groceries. We were on a run headed back to Prince George, where we would switch and pass our loads on to other trucks, that would then deliver them to Fort St. John and Grand Prairie stores. We left the …
What I Think Of Experts | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy Every time I open up a newspaper, watch TV, or listen to the radio, there is some “EXPERT” telling me something different. Experts tell me what to drink, give me advice on what I should eat, and evaluate what I should drive. Experts tell me that I’m responsible for global warming, the demise of the dinosaurs and …
Strange Noises | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy Have you ever been driving down the highway on one of those bright moonlit nights? When the highway is quiet, there is not too much traffic, and the last trucker you talked to on the 2-way radio, wasn’t too talkative. When the AM-FM radio has some tunes on it, but nothing that really grabs your attention. You …
I Love Old Cars | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy I‘m an old car guy. I love old cars! I love old cars not unlike some old pervert who might love good looking young women, or something else that’s absolutely no good to him when they reach old age, unless he’s going to use it as a decoration or a hood ornament. I have always had a …
The Reunion | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy We had a school reunion a few weekends ago, and leading up to it, at 76 years old, I was really getting excited about it. My wife was amazed that a man my age, who isn’t really concerned about being in style, all of a sudden started worrying about what he was going to wear a week …
I Am | Therefore I Write | By Mel McConaghy
By Mel McConaghy I’m going to start this with one of my stories that you have all heard before. It happened in the fall of 2004, while I was pulling for Aggressive Transport, hauling groceries. On a trip returning from Vancouver with a load, I was running with a couple of other lease operators, and after 500 miles of chatter …