Rachel Ray and I.........Wait.....What????!!!!??

Okay I hoped you read the last 2 blogs first, but I know how it's formatted latest entry first and like most readers you'll probably see the title and read this first. Yes you did I know. Anyway, the next load I got since delivery in Bradford PA, could not originally pick up until the next morn 4/16 at 10am(live load)and delivery on 4/17 1030am(live unload) a 714 mile journey. I contemplated calling the office asking for the p/u or del be moved due to the fact of not making an on time delivery with D.O.T rules or the backroads I needed to travel to get there. My buddy Bill and I decided I needed to call the office and at least try. I did and we changed the p/u to 8am instead. It worked. Okay you're asking what does this have to do with the title??? Well, my work assignment said this"Promo Product, Driver must speak english, might be interviewed by news crew".. I said what? When I called office to change the p/u she notified me that it was a big thing and that Rachel Ray was going to be there and I would get interviewed. She had donated a load of dog food products to this Greyhound adoption agency in a little town in Iowa called Maysville. Wow excitement now!!(I told the Mrs I'm getting her phone number)...(like real right)....ahemm back to the story. Well, load picked up on time and we made time by not stopping but for 1 rest area break, I rolled till my 14 was up. Spent the night in Gary IN (at the OC). Next day I was a little early actually, so I stopped of at the Flying J at the exit I needed to take to Maysville. I called the CN and they said wait until 1030 to arrive, no problem. When I rolled I thought what would it be, you know balloons..-..parade..-..or somethin' right.......nada!! They watched the Mrs and I pull up, they were all in the same T-shirts banners made up thanking Ms Rachel, they thought she was with Me:(....I thought she was with them:(....No Media:(.....yep.....I know, your not sad,your now laughing at me thinking I thought I would meet a celebrity and all.....Ha..but I met the most nicest people you could meet. After a few minutes of talking exchanging who thought what you know, we decided to unload the trailer,then I asked if I could visit these poor animals. Story goes like this, when the owners are done racing these dogs or if their hurt, the send them to these places if not they put them down...sad story, I love dogs and I got to see greyhounds for the first time... Well news media called and said they would show up at 1pm, Rachel's publicist called apologizing for the no show for her and the media and would work something out later. Well that was fun actually. We've made new friends and now probably have a couple of them reading this blog now. Well Life....you never know where it leads somedays.....till next blog.. aloha....Darrell