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Machel's body was brought to Komatipoort by truck and flown to Maputo, the bureau said at a temporary office it established here...
Another incident was funny. Tires do go flat by themselves occasionally, and it's hard for me to change them, so when I get a flat I flag down a truck. Any driver is happy to change a tire for three rubles. One time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with...
...Viet Nam"), and met his future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck" for the school newspaper. Recalls Stephen: "Tabby looked like a waitress. She came across -- and still does -- as a tough broad." After graduation they married; when he was unable to find a teaching position, he labored in a launderette for $60 a week. "Budget was not exactly the word for whatever it was we were...
...well like my parents were driving up in Vermont, and there was like this really heavy thunderstorm, and there was like this, you know huge truck full of chickens coming the other way, and like WHAM...
...trying to be funny or what?" And the truck rumbles on through the Ohio night...