In the Back
I was looking through some writing/blog prompts today and one of them was “what’s in your car trunk?”. Of course, we don’t have a trunk. . . we have trucks.
And we now have two trucks which really seems to mirky the waters. It’s difficult to remember which truck we’re in and what is in which truck. We also need duplicates of things that we don’t have.
In the back of the Ford? The back seat is pretty clean. There’s paperwork we’ll overnight at lunch, jackets, trash, kleenex, wipes, and I don’t honestly know what else. But, I do know that when I turn around I can see floor and I can see the seat. In the truck bed, well, that’s another story. There’s antifreeze which we’ve tried to keep in the truck since our “fun” in Elk City, Oklahoma. . . and the “fun” we had in September. There’s also a couple of folding chairs from going to soccer games. . . they actually need to go in the back of the other truck and out to the deer lease. There’s the mat we stole from Bennie that we have really loved having. What else? hmm. . . I’m sure there’s some other junk but it was cleaned out last month when we took the mattresses out to the deer lease. In the toolbox. . . well no tools and from what I understand, no rope. What’s the point, right? The tools. . . the ones we used to have in there are in the other truck but that reminds me that the tools we bought with our September fun are in the backseat of the Ford. I’m going to have to investigate the toolbox further. . . There’s a first aid kit and jumper cables. I think there’s a charger for the ryobi tool set which has taken up residence in the other truck. Since it seems Cody is robbing this toolbox for the other truck and who knows where else, I need to take an inventory. . . there should be some fix a flat, straps, and baggies but I don’t know.
That kinda brings me to the other truck, the Chevy- which has really become Cody’s truck. I can’t begin to tell you what’s in there. Supposedly, Cody began cleaning it out this week as part of the transition from pre-hunting deer lease work to actual hunting season. I just know that it’s been his own personal space to clutter up and that every time I try to find something in there, it drives me batty.
One thing that is not in that truck though is a cell phone charger. We’ve got one on order. It’s been clear that there are a number of things we need to buy in order to have things we need in both trucks. A cell phone charger is just one of those things. In our confusion on which truck had our vehicle charger, we were without one recently when we really needed one. Confusion- that’s the other thing that having two trucks has brought.
The little differences in the trucks make a huge difference. Cody unlocks the doors to the Chevy with the key fob, but I just stand there until he gets in because I’m waiting for him to unlock the doors like he would in the Ford. And that Chevy, it doesn’t let you out of the blasted thing when you pull on the door handle. The Ford on the other hand unlocks so you can get out.
It really became a problem a few Saturday’s ago when we bought something that came in a huge box. . . I didn’t think anything of it until we got in the parking lot and realized we weren’t in the Ford. . . And it wasn’t going to fit underneath the bed cover. Thankfully, it did fit in the back seat- so long as I sat indian style in the front seat with my knees touching the dash.
I think I liked it better when we only had one truck. Well, except with the Ford makes life “fun”. . . then I enjoy knowing that I don’t have to make those repairs can wait.
Related posts:
- A Day of Rest: Sunday Scribbles
- Weird Things I Wonder: Deer Season Edition, Part 3
- Summer Vacation: Kansas