I was taking some sabbatical time in Texas at Baylor, where 2 out of every three vehicles are trucks. You’ve got city slickers, politicians, mailmen, salon workers, waitresses and more, all driving trucks, and not just any sort of trucks. I mean big ole honkin’ trucks. Why? This makes no sense. You’ve got mothers who need vans or at least cars with decent sized back seats driving trucks. Now at first I thought— it’s Texas, there’s a long history of people driving ranch and farm vehicles. But then I noticed the same thing was happening in Kentucky. Now I have no issue with plumbers and carpenters and actual horse farm workers having trucks. They actually need the truck beds to haul things. But when you see a lawyer in a suit driving his kids to school, and some of them or their friends are sitting in the truck bed…. and it’s raining, well that’s just wrong in seven languages!! And I blame the auto companies in part for all this macho stuff. Super size your truck like you do your fast food meal (and your waste line— yes I said waste line). Their ads insinuate that big trucks have something to do with being a big man or woman. Utter nonsense. You are not your truck, and it is not an extension of your personality…. unless of course you are a commercial truck driver as a profession!! As Stan the Man used to say— Nuff said!
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