#Because the pickup transmission was in park and the truck won't roll off the bed

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Tonight the tavern by my house is hosting a parking lot party. Beer and food are sold in tents. Games and activities are available for kids. One end of the lot was covered in corn hole boards. At the other end a country band was getting set up on a portable stage while I was there.

Sheila is working. I walked over by myself for a beer and a bratwurst. Today has been unseasonably warm and muggy. Earlier I rode my bicycle around the Minneapolis lakes. Then I took my motorcycle around Lake Minnetonka. After all that I was moist and stinky. The Twin Cities Marathon is tomorrow. With this weather some are predicting spontaneous human combustion along the 26.2 mile course. I may bike over there tomorrow just to see the flames.

My point? Oh yeah, that parking lot beer really hit the spot. The brat, not so much. It was boiled instead of grilled, which should be a crime. The bun was dry and too big. I tore off each end just so I would have some brat in each bite.

I didn't see anyone I knew so when I was done eating and drinking I walked home. Along the way I saw a cop car and tow truck. Yesterday I'd noticed someone had ditched a pickup truck behind the grocery store.

I love watching tow trucks in operation. While I observed, I said hi to the cop. He explained that the truck wasn't stolen. Someone had crashed it around, then left a note that undrivable truck would be picked up later. But one person's "later" is the police department's "that is long enough."

The tow driver had to try a few different things, due to the way the pickup was wedged against the curb, before the pickup was secured to the bed.

Once again another tow truck driver would not let me help at all. They always spout something about "insurance regulations" and "the boss" preventing them from letting me operate any of the levers to move the bed or to turn the powerful winch.