A page a day. Truckstop Gary. Showers. Downs boy.

 Gary work the truckstop, he worked the night shift on reception.

Reception was not just where telephone calls were taken and hotel keys were distributed.

Reception was also the shop and management for the showers.

The shop sold a small amount of groceries, a small amount of toiletries, but also 12 V fridges radios for HGV nuts, bolt CDs newspapers. A mix of everything I might need when stopping overnight.

It was badly ran and badly managed a lot of stuff was missing a lot wasn’t priced up. Track drivers arrive in a particularly bad mood and a very badly managed truckstop where they were given extra difficulty, and simply trying to buy a Mars bar or a pint of milk didn’t help them with that mood.

Truck drivers parking up for the night had the option of taking a complimentary shower. A £1 deposit was taken to ensure the key came back. When the key came back with the truck driver, got his pound. Thinking about that, it was probably too smaller deposit, but then what if you are allowed to deposit a truck driver would need to have that on him and this particular truckstop did not have a cash machine machine. Kept was temporary while the truck driver was washing, but even so were always disgruntled at being asked for it. One time I took a break very often didn’t get my brakes, but Susie covered for me for 30 minutes while I took a break. Well, I came back. The reception desk was littered with all manner of objects, with watches and phones, and rings all sorts of things. Pretty much, none of them, whatever £1. For some reason during Susie’s 30 minute shift, she had decided to take anything a truck driver wanted to leave instead of the £1 deposit.

Between users, each shower was cleaned by Rob. Rob had very few teeth. he had been a farmhand. He lived at home with his mum and his three brothers. He was about 60. I never saw the brothers or the mum. Thinking about it, now, they could all have been dead.

Overnight, Gary worked reception and the shop. Valuable items were protected by security tags in the shop. For some reason, one of the girls that worked in the doctor during the day dayshift loosening the tags. Gary spent his night shift, stealing the untagged items. 

Beyond the motel shop, bar, restaurant and showers building. The truckstop also had a petrol filling station for cars and a filling station for lorries. Young lad works at the truckstop in one of them, more mechanical positions. He Was a young man with special learning needs. This lad was persuaded to steal tires for criminals Who were abusing he’s gullability, His low IQ and his job. As a result he lost his job.

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