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在美国西部的一个小地方,座落着一所店面不大的咖啡馆。这里没有东部大城市的那种混乱和喧嚣,咖啡馆的顾客也无非是一些从事长途运输的卡车司机。因此对于在咖啡馆当女招待的维拉来说,工作倒还算得上轻松、舒适。不过维拉并不打算在这里干下去,因为在咖啡馆里总不免会遇到一些行为不端的无聊男人,今天就有一个名叫伯克的司机在她身上摸了一把,气得她把咖啡泼了伯克一身。当然,这还不是维拉要想离去的主要原因,而是因为她的已经去世的父亲当年也是卡车司机,维拉的童年就是在父亲的驾驶室中度过的。长大成人后,维拉对卡车司机这个职业有一种特殊的向往,作一名司机,早就成了她追求的目标。
In a small part of the western United States, there is a small coffee shop. There is no chaos and hustle and bustle of the big cities in the east, and the cafe customers are nothing more than truck drivers engaged in long-distance transport. So for Vera, who works as a waitress in a coffee shop, work is easy and comfortable. However, Vera does not intend to go in here, because in the cafe will inevitably encounter some misbehavior boring man, today there is a driver called Burke touched her, angry with her The coffee poured Burke. Of course, this is not the main reason Vera wants to leave, but because her deceased father was also a truck driver and Vera’s childhood was spent in her father’s cab. After growing up, Vera has a special yearning for the profession of truck drivers. Being a driver has long been her goal.