Pushmi Pullyu by Freightliner

We had tons of books growing up; we had the Dr. Seuss collection and the Walt Disney collection. These were a series of books that you sign up to get a couple new books each month. They were great! I read them over and over and over again. I didn't like the typical Disney story ones such as Cinderella. My favorites were the crazy not so well know stories told with Disney characters such as a Disney spin-off of the best story ever - Pimbanonis as told by my Grandma Norma. EVERY time we went to visit her we had to have her tell us that story. I think we probably threatened my cousin within an inch of his life to go ask Grandma to tell us the story knowing she wouldn't say no to him. The Disney version has Goofy doing all these things completely wrong like carrying a loaf of bread tied to a string dragging it on the ground behind him. That sort of thing. One book that had great illustrations was the Dr. Doolittle story where he and the animals outsmart pirates. I liked the idea of the Pushmi Pullyu. It seemed like a very practical set up for survival skills if they could just agree on a way to run - at least my 6 year old brain thought so. It wasn't my favorite character in the book but it was intriguing to my underage brain. To put it in perspective - the pirates in the book scared me and I wouldn't read the book for about a year. I always wondered how the Pushmi Pullyu got into the Crow's Nest of the ship to be able to spot the approaching Pirate Ship and they always looked really uncomfortable up there with all four legs being crammed into that little area.

The other day I'm almost home and the freeway started slowing a little. There is a big semi truck next to me and as I get ahead of it I see this gigantic white semi truck cab FACING THE WRONG WAY!!! I think to myself that must be why we are all slowing down, the truck is flipped around on the freeway and that lane is having to merge with the outside lanes to get around it. Then a split second later I see that there are two other semi truck cabs being towed on the same truck that is pulling the gigantic white truck cab. These other two cabs are raised so only the back wheels are on the ground and the front wheels are up on the rack. The gigantic white semi truck cab is too big to fit on the rack so they were towing it backward. Ok, brain reset, that makes more sense. Phew! Then I get a little farther forward and see that the truck pulling all these is the EXACT same gigantic white semi truck cab! First thing that pops into my head...It's the Pushmi Pullyu of semi trucks!!!!!!!