I stopped at the Cenex on Highway 12 to fill up my truck.

The cold pump handle felt like ice against my bare palm, the display reading three dollars and forty-nine cents a gallon as the gallons rolled over on the screen.

On the other side of the pump island, Gordon Lund climbed out of his work truck and nodded to me across the hood.

“I hear Brad cleared his gear out of the dealership basement yesterday,” Gordon said.

“He sure did,” I said.