I’m working in town again this week and that means I get to drive a company vehicle. Our department has a bunch of two-seater cargo vans and one Ford Expedition. Well, guess which one I claimed?

Then Friday afternoon, a manager who works for another department, decides he wants the Expedition because he needs to drive it down to Florida to haul some equipment with our trailer. No other vehicle will do because in his opinion the vans can’t haul as much as the Expedition (all our vehicles have trailer hitches). Well, I did the research and found that he is indeed right. The Expedition can haul all of 500 pounds more than the cargo vans (which can tow 5000 pounds). The Expedition also has twice the mileage of any of our vans… and it’s making a “growling noise”, which I can’t quite tell where it’s coming from. I think it’s the transmission, another guy in our department thinks it might be a wheel bearing gone bad. Regardless, it’s in no condition to go to South Florida. We left it Friday afternoon that the other manager would decide late Monday morning which vehicle he “needed”.

Being that I need to leave my house around 7:30 am, I went down to the office a little earlier to pick up the Expedition. And it was GONE! Stolen! Immediately we suspect the other manager of sneaking down and taking it without permission from my own manager (I know, I called and checked). So, we rode by his house… and there was no truck in his driveway.

Then we happened to think of another associate who might have “borrowed” the truck, as his own company vehicle was sitting in the parking lot (which it almost never does), and as it turned out… he did have it.

So, now I’m driving the Expedition this week and if the other manager wants to tow a trailer, he can use a van. We think the real reason he wants the Expedition is, obviously, for the “comfort” and the CD player. The cargo vans don’t have that, but at least they have Air Conditioning and Cruise Control.

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