I have a truck. It is hard on gas. It is the workhorse for my family. I don’t take it on long trips, we use my wife’s car for that. However, I do commute with it because it is not practical to have a third vehicle ( additional insurance, parking, maintenance…not good).
I am amazed at how many people will take a snotty self-righteous attitude towards me because I’m not driving a small car. Vile disgusting insinuations like I don’t care about the environment, that I should be taxed, shunned, et cetera.
Well, fuck you! The next time you need a washing machine picked up from a store, or a load of lumber for your fence, or help moving…you know—the reason why I have the truck for my family—the next time you ask me to help you out, I’m going to tell you about how terrible my truck is, and how evil I am. I am going to remember you about what you said to me. —Yes, This is My Truck. No, I Will Not Help You Move
This article appears in Nov 8-14, 2012.
i know lots of people with trucks, they’re not assholes
And I know a goodly number of people concerned with the environment who aren’t self-righteous twats. Every faith has it’s fundamentalists – even the secular ones. You earned the money to buy it, you earn the money to fuel it. As far as the mingers with their Greener than Thou mentality are concerned – Fuck ’em.
you know what o.p.,it’s none of anyone’s business what you drive. if it is licensed, checked, and insured, then fuck them. i used to drive a big old lincoln mark 7, and it loved gas too. but the thing was beautiful to look at and a dream to drive. i have always driven big old detroit steel, and felt a whole lot safer being inclosed in more metal in their bumper, than most cars have in their entire body today.
what i find silly is that these are people he knows…people who also ask for help moving stuff. i miss our old pickup for moving stuff and getting loads of wood.
My father has a truck. I like him. He’s a cool dude. So …yeah.
i must admit i enjoying driving trucks, i blame tonka
i like the height. being challenged thataway. and since ’emy’ was such an obvious old POS truck, i got a wide berth, old emy had nothing to lose in a confrontation.
I used to feel like bleedin’ Rommel rattling down the Kingston backroads in Dad’s old Int. Harvester Scout
http://www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/romme…
*Disclaimer: I was nowhere near that cool . Das Sigh. >: (
Fuck ’em OB. You’re paying for it, not them so they can all go to fucking hell.
Wouldn’t it be more economical to try to work the wife’s car into the commute? Maybe you could rideshare. If there’s no other way, there’s no other way but if you can avoid using the gas guzzler every day that would be a positive.
You said, “hard on”.
..jus tell ’em ..you’re a organic hemp farmer and it’s powered by re-cycled flax seed oil …
I don’t care one way or the other whether you’ve got a truck, way back when I used to have one too, and I don’t rule out having one in the future. But I wouldn’t belabour the reasons for having one; why not just say you have one because you like trucks?
Fact is, the occasional appliance or lumber purchase is more economically handled by having the business deliver it. And when you’re moving house it’s a hell of a lot easier with a proper rental vehicle with serious haulage capacity, and especially if the weather’s filthy.
There are people who really *need* trucks, but they might be 1 in 10 of all truck owners. For the rest, a good enough reason is that you like the damned things, just like others like their sedans or SUVs or crossovers. That’s all you need to say.
OB …. Sometimes I believe my family loves me for my truck !
For pickin’ up mum’s new washer & Dryer in spring, for going & picking up the brothers convection oven . Getting a call last summer, when my other brother’s motorcycle died … hauling my daughters recyclables for her, so her car didn’t get dirty. picking up sheep manure, top soil, loads of gravel & sand & bags of cement for the new sidewalk from the drive way around to the side door of dads garage ….and all the other stuff family & friends & I need a truck for. Hauling my hardwood home from the wood lot …oh yeah & work, so OB the next time some jealous fuck makes a comment about yer truck just smile & nod , dude smile & nod ’cause they haven’t got a click never mind a fuckin’ clue !
Tell ’em all to eat your cornhole!
People who butt their noses in where they need not can fuck right off.
My dad has a handicapped decal on the car. He’s been advised by his orthopedic surgeon to use it to park closer because his ankle is a mess. Well you should see the looks he gets when he uses it from other self righteous fucks (all of whom, I assume, have medical degrees and are familiar with his medical history/chart) who think that just because he’s not in his 80s or in a wheelchair he shouldn’t be using it (or obviously is using his elderly mother’s decal!). Asshats.
And my parents have always driven older volvos. You should hear some of the things people say about gas milage because the cars are older. Well fuck you, haters, Volvos have been conforming to California emission standards since the 80s. The ‘economy’ setting on my parents’ latest car allows them to get better gas milage than most of the assholes commenting on their supposed shitty milage. Asshats. If you ain’t driving a hybrid, then stfu and myob.