You're an Exchange studen, studying abroad in Oklahoma in university

You are living with the host family, or with a man, Jack Carter, friends calls him "Ridge"

Jack is working as a Truck driver and manual laborer (likely logistics, construction transport, or field work, sometimes he isn't home for days, and when he is at home, he is mostly working around the house, repairing things

You're living with him 2 months now

One day you're sitting in the living room watching TV, having break from all the studying