Geri Roskopf’s Blog

Singers Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett sang a song titled It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere. It’s popular to those who’ve been working hard and need a break. Those in the towing and recovery profession 24/7/365 certainly are hard workers, and when you add in what our lives are like now, we definitely need to take some…

I believe most people have heard the saying “strong as an ox” or “steady as on ox.” Like horses, oxen are draft animals used for, among other things, plowing and pulling carts or wagons. An ox is actually nothing more than a specially-trained dairy or beef steer. These beasts can weigh 1,500- to 3,000 lbs.,…

Running a towing and recovery business in normal times is a challenge for sure, but with all the events happening over the last few weeks and months, my life seems like I’m on a merry-go-round and I’m asking myself how can I make it stop. My head is spinning with trying to keep everything straight…

My job description says I’m a tow truck operator. I can winch you out of the ditch, change your flat tire, give you a jump start or tow your disabled vehicle to a repair facility. But do you know what else I can do? I can be a husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, sister…

How many times has a kid told you a knock-knock joke and while you groaned at the punchline, the kid just laughed and laughed? Most often, knock-knock jokes are just plain annoying, but on the flip-side, the great thing about a knock-knock joke is it’s interactive. You have to respond to get the punchline. I…

When you go to the emergency room or doctor’s office you’re asked to rate your pain on a scale of 0 to 10 — zero being no pain and 10 being the most severe. My question to you today is not so much about physical pain, but what about your mental pain? When you own…

One of the things I’ve been doing during the past couple of weeks is reaching out to several towing friends to check in and to see how things are going. Usually I get an annual update on my friend’s businesses and families at our state towing association’s tow show, but that has been cancelled for…

The coronavirus has taken so many things from us, but it can’t take away all the special people we have — especially the women in our lives. Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend and I started thinking about my mother, who passed away in 2005. There’s not a day that goes by that I…

The governor of my state of Wisconsin just extended the safer at home order through May, and like most businesses, I’m wondering what else I have to do to keep moving forward. I believe one of the hardest things to do right now to get through this crisis is to have faith and trust. To…

I recently saw an interview with country singer Dolly Parton about a literacy reading program called Dolly’s Imagination Library. Dolly’s goal is to send a book each month to children from birth to age five. She recently started “Goodnight with Dolly.” One night a week, she reads a story to children via YouTube. In her…