Before you go filling up your new pickup truck with your best friends garden supplies, check out the load rating, and think about how much weight you will be putting into the bed of your truck. I was moving some bricks recently, and we had to be very careful not to put to much weight into the truck. Some items can put too much load on your truck, even without filling up the bed. Going back to the bricks, the handling of the truck was severely degraded and we only filled it about half way. So don’t think that just because the truck isn’t overflowing with patio block that you aren’t done loading them. You fill a truck by weight, not by volume!

We all know the meaning of no time flat as in “I got there in no time flat.”, but what is the origin of the phrase? I heard it today and decided I would try to figure it out. I know when someone just says “I got there in no time” it is just an exaggeration to emphasize that they got somewhere very quickly, so now I just needed to find what exactly the word flat did to the phrase. I know from experience that it added even more emphasis (as if someone could get somewhere in less than “no time”) but I wanted to figure out why. My answer was only as far away as a dictionary where I saw that the word “flat” had many more definitions than I expected. Im not sure if I can copy the definitions from dictionary.com to my blog so I will just link you to the definitions page for “flat”. Definition 11 says flat can mean absolute so “no time flat” could also be written as “absolutely no time” which is exactly what I always understood it to mean when I heard it, and now I know why.