Street Machine

KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

TO QUOTE legendary former SM columnist Darryl ‘Beefs’ Savage, “Geez, a lot of things cheese me off.” My latest eye-roller is modern-day do-gooders grasping established, innocent, simple pleasures and throwing a negative spin on them.

As a kid in the 1980s, I and many other kids enjoyed giving the arm pump to passing truckies in the hope of copping a blast from their horns. I was a repeat offender in this activity, even copping a lick of the cane after ignoring multiple warnings about standing at the fence every lunch break trying to

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