knives and other things

It's 2012.  I hear clanging on the street, similar to the sound made by an ice-cream truck. 

I look out my window and see a red-painted truck, with a sign that says something about knife-sharpening. I take out the one big knife I own and get it sharpened.

I haven't seen the truck since.

So on a quest for something different to do, I decide to get my knives sharpened.

My collection has grown since 2012 and now includes four: an 8-inch, 7-inch, 5-inch and 4-inch.

It's not really that I think my knives are dull (I don't use them enough to know). But my friend Zelia recently asked about sharpening hers, so that's how I got the idea.

I find a hardware store near me. I have no idea what the going price is to sharpen a knife, but $1.75 per inch sounds high. That would have been about $42 to sharpen my 4 knives.

I try the hardware store I typically go to (on 75th and First). They tell me it'll be $22. I leave my knives and they do a great job, I think. Though truly, I don't know.

Today I get a text from a friend. 

A knife sharpening truck?

And now a shredding truck?

It makes me wonder what other kinds of trucks I've been missing out on.