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“Why are you taking a picture of my truck?” asked the labourer with the tattoo visible on the left side of his neck.

“Because you’ve got really nice type on your truck,” I said, exaggerating just a bit.

Modern cube van with ærodynamic edges is labelled A. BUCKNER CONTRACTING The Improvement People in drop-shadow and cursive fonts

“Oh.”

(The face here isn’t quite Futura, either.)

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