[67drake]

I work public works/maintenance now for a small town of 500. Sometimes I’ve found I have to wear a lot of hats. Like today I get a call that there is a pit bull on someone’s front porch. The town cop isn’t in yet, and if we call the county humane society the town has to reimburse them to come out, I believe like $200!
So anyway I pull up and the home owner and his wife are standing in the front yard as the dog is kinda sniffing around. They told me on the phone it seems friendly enough, so I have no worries. As soon as I opened the door to the F-450 ( that sits pretty high off the ground) the dog runs around the truck and nearly knocks me over as he’s jumping in, as I’m getting out. OK! He likes to go for rides I see.
The homeowner and I think we have an idea whose dog it is, so I head over there. The pit bull instantly puts his paws up on the top of the door with his head out the window. He’s loving it.
I get to the house where I think he belongs, and as it turns out their dog wasn’t missing. Hmmm. I rolled the window up on his side a little as I didn’t want him to bolt out the window when I stopped. Well, since he couldn’t ride like king of the mountain now, he turned his attention to me. I swear this was the friendliest dog! He proceeded to lick my face and head excitedly and snort in my ear! I was giggling and trying to steer and almost took out a mailbox!
Finally I get him back to the shop and my hair on the dog/passenger side of my head is standing almost straight up.
I pulled into the shop and closed the overhead door behind me with the automatic opener so he couldn’t run off. After posting his picture on our towns website the owner was there literally 5 minutes later. She said his name is Carlos, and he tends to be quite friendly. I told her if she ever gets rid of him I would take him off of her hands as we walked towards my shop. When I let him out he wagged his stubby tail for a minute then immediately ran up to my truck wanting to go for another ride. Sorry not today buddy, got too much to do, but I enjoyed the hour I had with him.
When I told my kids the story, they said Carlos is going to try to run away every day now, so that he can drive around town in the big red dump truck