[Magdalen] Guy Thing.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I don't know, Jay...my son-in-law drives the truck a lot more often than I do, and I don't think he'd appreciate the sticker! 

> On Jun 11, 2016, at 10:48 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>