Reply #22

My uncle was a trucker and he scored a job working for a Teamster freight company. I remember going to see my cousins at the new house he was able to buy for them in a better neighborhood. I can still remember Uncle Jim talking to the neighbor over the fence who was a bigwig surgeon. My uncle told him he was a truck driver and the doc was a little taken aback that he could afford that house on a trucker's pay. Uncle Jim explained that he was a Teamster and was paid decently for driving a truck 70 hours a week.

After my uncle went back in the house, my cousin and I were playing near the fence and we could hear the doc and his wife sitting on their patio talking. They were appalled that a simple trucker should make so much money that he could afford to move in next to them.

It wasn't long , maybe a year and a half later Uncle Jim sold that house and bought a little farm out in the country.