The Truth about Trucking by Zellers Steven

Author:Zellers, Steven [Zellers, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wordwizard Publishing
Published: 2013-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

Wildlife

As a truck driver I’ve seen all kind of critters in the wild. I never know where I’m going to be from one day to the next, or what I might see. It’s one thing to see an animal in a zoo. But it’s something quite different when you see them on their turf. This became very clear to me on one winter night when I stopped at a rest area near Flagstaff Arizona.

It was late at night. The ground was covered with a fresh blanket of snow and I had to take a leak. There were no good parking places close to the rest rooms and it was freezing cold outside. So I did what most truck drivers would do in that situation. I pulled off to the side, went out beside my truck and did my business. Before I could finish I noticed a pair of yellow glowing eyes staring at me from the tree line less than 10 feet away. My first thought wasn’t one of fear or panic, it was more like, “this can’t be good.”

You have to imagine the situation. I was standing there doing my thing. Any guy will tell you, once you start there’s no stopping until you finish. When you gotta go you gotta go and to hell with everything else. I stood there and finished and closed up shop, if you know what I mean.

It was then that I noticed the rest of them. Now there wasn’t one pair of eyes watching me, there were eight. And they weren’t eyes any more. They were very big and very mean looking wolves. They were stalking slowly toward me. I remember my exact thought. I’ll never forget it as long as I live, “Shit!”

I was no longer feeling calm. I was scared. I mean really scared. Instinctively I didn’t run. Instead I kept direct eye contact with the one that was closest to me. He was huge and obviously the leader. He kept his head low but never took his eyes off mine. It was an unmistakable threatening posture. The others stayed back a few feet but had spread out into a wide semicircle. I was surrounded on three sides and my truck was behind me. The door was about 5 feet to my left. I took a cautious step in that direction. The big one in front of me seemed to know what I was doing because he took a lateral step in the direction also.

I was about 3 feet closer to the door than the big one and thought I could make it if he lunged at me. Or hoped, I should say. The leader bared his teeth and let out a low growl. The others immediately went into attack posture. I knew I had to get to the door or I was Alpo. I looked at the door then back at the big one. Out of my peripheral vision I saw another wolf standing at the front of my truck.

Immediately I understood what was happening.

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