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Had a 3am chat with a trucker at the Waffle House near I-95 and he told me to bookmark a site called 'Muffin Man Alerts'
So I'm grabbing coffee after my shift around 3am, this older guy is sitting at the counter, we start talking. He says he has bookmarks for live weigh station closures, roadkill frequencies by state, and this one called Muffin Man Alerts which is apparently a forum where truckers share which rest stops have the best fresh muffins. I asked why that matters and he goes 'When you've been driving 12 hours, a good muffin changes your whole outlook.' I now have it in my own bookmarks under 'road trip essentials'. Has anyone else stumbled across a bookmark that makes no sense until you hear the context?
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barnes.jamie24d ago
Hold on, roadkill frequencies by state? That one threw me for a loop. I can kind of get the muffin thing, my dad was a trucker and he swore by the breakfast at a specific Flying J in Ohio, said it was the only one that didn't mess up his eggs. But actually tracking data on dead animals on the highway, that's a whole other level of being prepared. I guess after a while you'd learn which states don't bother to clean up, but keeping a live tally of it is something else.
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