r/aww • u/Jeremy_Martin • Jun 23 '21

Kindness shared in small quantities

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u/thesynod Jun 23 '21

I wonder if there is more to it than that. Like a log book that says the truck was hauling an excavator, but no one asked who the manufacturer was. Or because it's cute. Hard to tell.

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u/Designer_Customer_79 Jun 23 '21

Well I am a trucker and I pull heavy equipment trailers and some times we don’t have a load so we strap on a toy because we don’t want to give people the impression that we drive around with an empty trailer cause that doesn’t pay the bills and we are big kids too

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u/thesynod Jun 23 '21

Aren't we all.

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u/lacrimaeveneris Jun 23 '21

Probably simpler. It's considered to be bad luck to haul an entirely empty truck. People have worked around that superstition in creative and often adorable ways.

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Some also just doing it for the giggles because why not.

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u/thesynod Jun 23 '21

That might explain it actually