[Magdalen] Guy Thing.

[Jay Weigel]

You could probably find it online, Grace. I've seen the bumper sticker
too...on a truck.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I LOVE trucks, preferably 4WD stick shift ones! The one I have now is a
> bit bigger than I would like, because it has the 4 passenger cab, but we
> need that to travel with kids. It's an F150, 4WD, automatic, which I don't
> prefer, but it is easier on knees and wrists than a stick shift would be.
> But I love driving it! I saw a cap once that said "Real women drive
> trucks!" I've never seen another one...
>
> > On Jun 11, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've never understood the fascination either. My late ex had always
> > hankered for, and finally bought (it was his last vehicle) a Chevy pickup
> > about the time our middle grandson was born. He'd had one when the kids
> > were small but traded it for a more useful vehicle that could carry
> > everyone later on. Our Adam drove a battered pickup in high school
> (reverse
> > status thing, I think) and when he returned from his first tour in Iraq
> he
> > bought a Ford Ranger pickup of which he was inordinately proud.
> >
> > OTOH, my friend Lindsey, who lives in north Texas, has had several very
> > large pickup trucks during the time I've known her. Most of them have
> been
> > along the lines of a Ford F-350, some diesel, big honking powerful
> things.
> > I can just imagine her, a little bit of a thing, barreling down the
> highway
> > in them. But then, Lindsey is--well, not so much now, she's scaled back
> > since she got married, but still does it--a quarter horse trainer, and
> she
> > lives on a working ranch and trailers those critters around to shows.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> My spouse has a new F-150 four door model.  He has always driven
> >> a pickup trucks.  He's had all the USA truck  brands.  He was out doing
> >> some
> >> grocery shopping at the local Wal Mart last night and had another of
> those
> >> guy things.  Several men walked up to the F-150, looked at the
> >> interior through the windows, circled the vehicle and then proclaimed
> >> "Great truck!"
> >>
> >> I had a friend who always referred to pickup trucks as "p___s
> extenders."
> >> They are the male equivalent of "chick cars," I guess.
> >>
> >> In any case, I've never experienced any of this in my routine four  door
> >> sedans, and actually I'm not sure I'd want to.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang.
> >>
>