The man's wife found somebody she trusted and gave the box emptied of sweets but filled with dimes to the person. "He's the trucker our group is sponsoring," the woman said. "Does he bring the milk to the school?"
"Different kind of truck," she said while pulling a sandwich bag of beef jerky out of her little purse. "Why don't you want to see him?"
"It's not that! But, I, we, me and the kids want him to feel, uh, (i)better(i) about his role as Dad."
"Oh. And why dimes?"
"The gas went up nine cents overnight!"
"How'd you guys know that?"
"Grapevine."
Lights on the semitrucks were starting to come on after wee hour naps.
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