truckin....
Dec. 13th, 2004 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietannSo dear old HORT, Ben's Chevy Caprice Wagon, has finally been declared unsafe to drive by him, and he is looking for a new vehicle. It has to be able to tow 5000 pounds, so a truck or SUV are our only choices. The choice is now between a Toyota Tundra pick-up truck and a Toyota 4Runner SUV. I Loooooovvvvvve!!!!!! The Truck! I want The Truck! But he's buying, so... how do I convince him to go for the truck?
(The particular truck I test drove was a brick red, V8, 2WD Access cab. Very cushy for a truck. For our purposes, 4WD is not necessary, but it is very hard to find 2WD trucks in New England. And 4WD adds about $3000 to the cost.)
(The particular truck I test drove was a brick red, V8, 2WD Access cab. Very cushy for a truck. For our purposes, 4WD is not necessary, but it is very hard to find 2WD trucks in New England. And 4WD adds about $3000 to the cost.)
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Date: 2004-12-13 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 03:16 am (UTC)I'd go for the truck, especially if you can put one of the MGs in the back. :)
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Date: 2004-12-14 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-14 08:05 am (UTC)HORT made it to almost 100K. But that's nothing compared to my parents' 1968 Chevy Greenbriar wagon, which they sold on at 237K, and was seen cruising around the neighborhood for several years thereafter. They sold it for $700 to a young guy who was just starting a landscaping business, and couldn't afford a truck.
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Date: 2004-12-14 07:19 am (UTC)He won't have to put up with people ask about the truck with the words "So, how's the anatomical compensator running?"
If those arguments fail, you can always play the "It's the holidays and I'm going to be cute card." This can be very effective.
If all else fails you can bribe him with sexual favors. "X is very likely to happen if you get the truck."
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Date: 2004-12-14 08:16 am (UTC)trucks look like *working* vehicles, which is after all why we need it (to tow the classic cars around...)
I'm having this little fantasy about coming home in the next day or two and finding the truck in the driveway... but, not having sex in it; it's not quite big enough.... Maybe when we get a cab on it. Ever heard the phrase "Fuck Truck"?
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Date: 2004-12-14 08:32 am (UTC)It's called the "bed" of the truck for a reason. ;)
On a related note, if I and a former GF could manage shenanigans in a Mercury Sable, the cab of a truck can't be that difficult.
Why do you think my Father loaded the back of the family VAN with a dismantled Dishwasher before he let me use it? It was supposedly there until they could "take the dishwasher to the junk yard," yet it remained in place for months on end.
Fortunately for me, he completely forgot about the vent seats in the van, and left them unobstructed. :)
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Date: 2004-12-15 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-15 10:43 pm (UTC)A couple of years ago, my brother came of age to start driving. (He's just my junior by nine years) At the time, the car he drove was another GMC van, in roughly the same decrepit shape as the one I'd driven.
His friends proceeded to put carpeting in the van and a whole slew of interior mods that can be best described as "Pimped out."
My mother was showing me what had been done to the van. She said "I'm so glad L- is well behaved. If it were another child I'd be worried."
"Mom," I replied, "Wasn't this done by the other members of his band?"
"Yes."
"He's 19."
"What are you saying."
"And he plays the Bass Guitar IN the high school garage band."
Stunned silence from my mother, then "But he's not like that. He's my baby boy."
I thought about a snarky reply, but ended up just walking away, laughing heartily. Far be it from me to spoil my brother's fun.
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Date: 2004-12-14 10:05 am (UTC)I thought "Fuck Truck" referred to the Wellesley-MIT shuttle bus. :-) At least, that's what a Wellesley alumna of my acquaintance called it.
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Date: 2004-12-14 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-15 11:19 pm (UTC)Congratulations, you have struck me speechless. ;)
There's the prototype of a comment in my head, asking why I never dated anyone who could say such things when I was 20, but that's about all I can manage at the moment.
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Date: 2004-12-19 07:37 am (UTC)I actually got my start at age 17, when I had a boyfriend who was really, really into oral sex (both giving and receiving), and most of the time the only place where we could do it was a car.
One time his older brother snuck up on us (we were parked near their house) while we were in the back seat and he was, um, receiving... and his brother rapped on the windows of the car and nearly scared us half to death... He was just messin' with us, but sheesh.... I mean, I was shocked enough that I might have bitten my poor boyfriend in a very tender spot....
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Date: 2004-12-19 10:13 pm (UTC)Or he was just jealous and was acting out. His younger brother had a girl in his car engaging in some physically stimulating activity, and he might have decided to play the "If I can't get any, you can't get any" card.
Aside from that, I'm sure he didn't consider the prospect of his brother being injured. At least, I hope that's the case.
And being bitten in some areas is a BAAAD thing! (And no, I don't tell the story while sober.)
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Date: 2004-12-20 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 06:47 pm (UTC)Euuuu. That qualifies as twisted. I'm pretty sure Leviticus has something to say about that, the whole "Marry your brother's widow" thing aside.
Forgive my mention of Leviticus. It's been in the forefront of my mind due to recent political chaos. (If we're paying attention to THAT verse, why are we allowed to eat shrimp?)
by his standards I was fat and ugly, and too brainy
And aside from being a jerk, we also now know said older brother had no taste.
I've always found guys who thought Girl "A" was "Too Smart" to be amusing in a depressing sort of way. It was pretty clear that an intelligent woman was intimidating to them, but they rewrote that insecurity as the woman's fault.
What's really sad are the women who buy into it. I briefly dated a woman who was intelligent, skilled, technologically literate and able to carry on a good conversation. (The mind blowing sex and mild nymphomania were fantastic side benefits, but that wasn't until after her other characteristics had attracted me to her)
When she dumped me, she said it was because I asked, and genuinely cared about, her opinion, wanted to know how she felt and because she was "used to being treated like shit."
In short, she couldn't handle being treated with respect. It boggled my mind to have her telling me these were the reasons she was dumping me.
Hell, she was 25 and I was the FIRST guy to open a door for her since she'd been a child.
Something tells me she would have been more along the lines of the kind of girl said older brother would have wanted.
Oh, wait, she was over 200 lbs, he would have considered her "Too Fat"
And she didn't look like Brittany Spears, so he no doubt would have found her "Too Ugly"