Trucks....what is the appeal?
Aug 28th 2016 | 12:31 pm
#16
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
My truck
Aug 28th 2016 | 12:37 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
If I could only afford one vehicle it would be an SUV, or an estate car, it would fill, to some degree, all my vehicular needs. As it is, we have three vehicles:
If you don't have "stuff" to carry then it must be a fashion statement, and I am not going to get into that.
If you don't have "stuff" to carry then it must be a fashion statement, and I am not going to get into that.
Aug 28th 2016 | 12:39 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
Now the hunting season will soon be upon us, we will have trucks driving up and down the hill with a Moose or Deer displayed on the back, dead, for us all to see....the first time it happened, I damned near crashed the car...they gather in the car parks....one can only wonder at their group mentality
Aug 28th 2016 | 12:50 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
Aug 28th 2016 | 12:56 pm
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I'm a middle-aged boring woman who drives a dodge caravan. I don't need a truck, couldn't afford the petrol, would never hunt anything but I'd still LOVE one. Don't know why. I just see them and think ooh I wish. Preferably a really big f*** off one. With total redneck bumper stickers. (I'm as liberal as they come, honest.)
Aug 28th 2016 | 1:02 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
Here, when you have killed something, you tend to display it...up and down, again and again...this City is the size of a very small European town ....it gets a bit gory and in your face blood soaked pretty damned quick...
Aug 28th 2016 | 1:19 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
One of the docs I work with has just bought a truck.. They have no trailer (caravan
), 5th wheel (proper trailer), boat, he doesn't mountain bike, nor kayak. He has paddle boards but keeps these at the lakeside "Country Club"()
He just said that he had always wanted one... He moved here from Germany about 40 years ago as a kid.
It just got me thinking, and observing. Firstly, why? It has never appealed to me. We bought a Nissan Pathfinder that can tow a boat, not a fifth wheel but we don't want one, I load it up with tarps full of garden waste inside to the tip. I get big Christmas trees, kayaks, mattresses etc on the roof.
Is it a North American boy thing? I ask that as, driving to and from Kelowna, there were loads of trucks, all driven by men...
They drink fuel (trucks, not their drivers), you often can't park them in your garage (yes, I know, most Canadians just fill theirs with crap rather than vehicles), are generally massive so need to find somewhere large to park.
So, what am I missing? Is it that I am just too European? Am I not redneck enough? Am I indeed not male enough
? Why is it a seemingly exclusively male obsession..? Please enlighten me
), 5th wheel (proper trailer), boat, he doesn't mountain bike, nor kayak. He has paddle boards but keeps these at the lakeside "Country Club"()He just said that he had always wanted one... He moved here from Germany about 40 years ago as a kid.
It just got me thinking, and observing. Firstly, why? It has never appealed to me. We bought a Nissan Pathfinder that can tow a boat, not a fifth wheel but we don't want one, I load it up with tarps full of garden waste inside to the tip. I get big Christmas trees, kayaks, mattresses etc on the roof.
Is it a North American boy thing? I ask that as, driving to and from Kelowna, there were loads of trucks, all driven by men...
They drink fuel (trucks, not their drivers), you often can't park them in your garage (yes, I know, most Canadians just fill theirs with crap rather than vehicles), are generally massive so need to find somewhere large to park.
So, what am I missing? Is it that I am just too European? Am I not redneck enough? Am I indeed not male enough
? Why is it a seemingly exclusively male obsession..? Please enlighten me
Aug 28th 2016 | 1:26 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
Many years ago, when the wife and I moved into a place in the county that needed a lot of work, I bought a small pickup truck.
It was worth every cent, but at a certain stage it needed to be retired.
Having finished all the landscaping and renovations, I decided an SUV was probably for me, so I bought one.
On the day I went to pick it up, the wife drove me up in her chickmobile, (you know what I mean, spoiler on the back, sunroof, so close to the ground, you feel you're going to scrape your ass if you hit a bump, yadda yadda yadda.)
After I left the office after paying the bill, I got distracted for a few minutes talking to the service manager and when I went outside to get the keys from the sales lady she told me the wife had taken my new SUV home and gave me the keys to her car.
I drove home to looks of scorn from the local truck guys and noticed my new SUV was parked on the wife's side of the driveway. She told me she liked it and it was now hers, because she needed the 4WD to get to work in the snow.
I drove her chick car until I couldn't take it any longer and went out and bought a pickup truck.
It was worth every cent, but at a certain stage it needed to be retired.
Having finished all the landscaping and renovations, I decided an SUV was probably for me, so I bought one.
On the day I went to pick it up, the wife drove me up in her chickmobile, (you know what I mean, spoiler on the back, sunroof, so close to the ground, you feel you're going to scrape your ass if you hit a bump, yadda yadda yadda.)
After I left the office after paying the bill, I got distracted for a few minutes talking to the service manager and when I went outside to get the keys from the sales lady she told me the wife had taken my new SUV home and gave me the keys to her car.
I drove home to looks of scorn from the local truck guys and noticed my new SUV was parked on the wife's side of the driveway. She told me she liked it and it was now hers, because she needed the 4WD to get to work in the snow.
I drove her chick car until I couldn't take it any longer and went out and bought a pickup truck.
Aug 28th 2016 | 1:41 pm
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Re: Trucks....what is the appeal?
I'm a middle-aged boring woman who drives a dodge caravan. I don't need a truck, couldn't afford the petrol, would never hunt anything but I'd still LOVE one. Don't know why. I just see them and think ooh I wish. Preferably a really big f*** off one. With total redneck bumper stickers. (I'm as liberal as they come, honest.)
You are Marge Simpson and I claim my five pounds.
I'm thinking of an episode where mild mannered Marge drives a truck and she goes mad with the power she has in her control.
Unfortunately I can't find a youtube clip other than the follow up where she attends road rage management classes.
Aug 28th 2016 | 1:45 pm
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You are Marge Simpson and I claim my five pounds.
I'm thinking of an episode where mild mannered Marge drives a truck and she goes mad with the power she has in her control.
Unfortunately I can't find a youtube clip other than the follow up where she attends road rage management classes.
Aug 28th 2016 | 1:56 pm
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