Truckstop

"Hey, you got time for a truckstop?"

That's what these two guys next to me say to each other.

"Truckstop" means "coffee and a smoke."


Why don't they just say that? They're snagged on this one joke. They've probably been making coffee runs and smoke breaks for months, and sometime in those first few weeks somebody called it a truckstop, and somebody else laughed way too long and decided to always call it a truckstop, and none of them are smart enough to realize it's not funny, and that inventing your own jargon isn't ever cool when you work in mutual funds.

This is the same guy that calls the other one "Jimmy crack corn" because the other one asked him to. "Jimmy crack" for short.


A typical exchange goes like this:

"Hey, jimmy crack, how's it hangin?"

"Good, good. hey, me and Dave are heading out for a truckstop in five minutes. Are you working on anything? You want to come out on a truckstop? You got time?"

"Yeah, alright. I can swing that."



The only time that saying "you got time for a truckstop" is acceptible, at work, or ever, or even refering to a "truckstop" as something you "do," is if it's something illegal.

You get a free pass if "going out for a truckstop" means "smoking a joint in the parking garage" or is code for "a shot and a beer at O'Leary's"

But I doubt it. Neither one of these guys is cool enough to be smoking up or drinking at ten in the morning, though they both certinaly seem to think of themselves that way.

-t