Meaningful Returns

My son’s favorite word–and it’s not particularly close, though to be fair he only knows about three–is “truck.” He knows exactly what a truck is, that his dad drives one, that they make loud noises, and that many things can be called “truck” that aren’t trucks. Apparently.

Well, we got him a book from the library. And the title of the book is 20 Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street. It’s about an Ice Cream truck that breaks down in the middle of the street, and 19 other trucks that get stuck behind it in the middle of the street, and a boy on a bike who has an amazing idea to solve the whole problem. Well,

Cement is mixed in truck 14
And 15 carries gasoline.

I got to thinking about this in light of the fact that 250,000 gallons of gas spilled from a pipeline running through Shelby County, Alabama recently, which means those of us on the East will apparently see higher gas prices and maybe even some gas stations that run out of gas. And in order to combat that, trucks carrying gasoline were dispatched from Texas to places that would need the gas the most.

INFRASTRUCTURE IS IMPORTANT, PEOPLE.