Boys and Trucks

I have a question. I don't know if anyone knows the answer.

Why do young boys seemed to be genetically predisposed to find big trucks (Fire Trucks, Construction Trucks, et. al.) interesting.
I was sitting at the Metro station today, waiting for the shuttle and found myself watching the construction equipment. The crane grabbed dirt from the ground and dumped it in a dump truck. I marveled, somewhat, at man's technological prowess to build what essentially amounts to a bigger, but fairly efficient, shovel.
I remember when I was younger, my brother Marc and I could be no more alike than peanut butter and plantinum. He thought construction equipment and mack trucks were the best thing ever, but I thought fire trucks were the best thing ever.
I was probably four or five when I first decided fire trucks were the best ever. I don't know if this is society at work since I don't think I watched much, before I was five, but kid's television: Sesame Street, Muppet Show, The Electric Company and various Disney cartoons.
So.. I dunno. IS It a genetic predisposition? I have to wonder.
Discuss!

This still feels odd..

I think I need to write ANOTHER post about this.

It's weird, dealing with a manager who doesn't want to micromanage me.
Things feel totally different beteween this job and the last one.

I'm TRUSTED here. Not only does Manas have faith in my abilities (we have a guy joining us from, I think, the Atlanta office. He's done Studies which are somewhat like MT-2s, but bigger and different rules. He's come to my cubicle a number of times in the past day and a half, which Manas encouraged, for a number of questions.)

I've had more productivity in the last week than I think I had in the last three months at PBS&J. And it's unfettered. Manas checks everything out and MOST of the comments I've gotten back so far are in regards to differences between how PBS&J did things and Baker does, including wording (Wording's always been a weakness of mine. Language, in general, is. :p)

I haven't gotten over the unfettered part. Being able to make my phone calls on my own. Being able to write emails without having to send them through a team lead. Hell, I've even been adjusting requestor's models for them and sending them off, because it's just easier to make some changes over here when we know what we're looking for, then trying to explain them to the requestors. PBS&J had... very differing viewpoints about this.
Seriously. I've spent most of this last week able to sit in my cubicle, work, get letters off to Manas and getting them back.
Even Kristen sees the difference. I come home from work tired from a productive day at work instead of half bored out of my mind and begging for something to amuse me.
It's.. just so nice. Way way nice.

This is.. nice. It's real nice. I feel like my blood pressure has lowered many many points. There are still some serious annoyances. Angie was trusted too and, hence, was really bad about leaving notes about her thinking. So the first part I have to do with each case is go through everything thoroughly, write my own notes and see if I can understand Angie's thinking, which, so far, I've been OK with, but is time consuming.
Some of the requestors are still nincompoops too, but that comes with the job. I can't have everything. Sadly ;)

Yay! :)
I'm happy here :)

*pbtpbtpbtpbthhhs at PBS&J*