{"id":418,"date":"2007-03-06T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetucker.com\/mwp\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-03-06T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:28:07","slug":"dumpy-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/dumpy-truck-418","title":{"rendered":"Dumpy Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sold my little white truck last night.<\/p>\n

It was a piece of crap and I’m glad to be shed of it. And I’m glad for the measly $70 I got for it because insurance was due and tag renewal was just around the corner. It smoked like crazy, so passing emissions has always been a dramatic event. Well, it always passed<\/em>, but convincing the attendant that visible smoke didn’t necessarily mean anything is a trick unto itself. That’s $10 a year I won’t owe anymore, and since vehicle registration fees here have gone up something like 60% since last time, I’ll be saving a bundle.<\/p>\n

And yet… I miss it already, despite its many, many… er… many<\/em> problems.<\/p>\n

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  1. It was a third vehicle. As such, it often sat around unused.<\/li>\n
  2. It was a third vehicle. As such, it got borrowed. A lot.<\/li>\n
  3. It never got gassed-up when borrowed. Ever. While that was no fault of the little truck itself, it was irritating that I had to fill up the tank every time I had an errand to run. See number 2.<\/li>\n
  4. It was ugly. I didn’t care that there were always new dings and scrapes whenever it came back from a borrowin’ (see number 2), but it never made the poor vehicle any prettier.<\/li>\n
  5. Overdrive didn’t work, so I couldn’t drive it on the interstate. Of course, a lot of people did it anyway, and it’s on the interstate where I recently found it broken down, literally 3 hours from being impounded. AAA didn’t cover the full cost of the tow back to my house, but again, not a direct result of the truck’s… er… truckness. See number 2.<\/li>\n
  6. The reverse gear made an embarassing amount of noise.<\/li>\n
  7. The air conditioner didn’t work.<\/li>\n
  8. It smelled funny.<\/li>\n
  9. It hadn’t run in three months. See number 5.<\/li>\n
  10. Somebody smashed out the passenger-side window a few nights ago, probably looking for drugs or a gun. The pisser is that I left the doors unlocked to keep that very thing from happening. Since that time I’ve had a tarp wrapped around the door, adding greatly to the visual appeal of my neighborhood. See number 4.<\/li>\n
  11. There was glass all over the place. See number 10.<\/li>\n
  12. The vinyl seats were split and peeling. See number 4.<\/li>\n
  13. The steering wheel was all torn up. See number 2.<\/li>\n
  14. It had no radio. That, along with the speakers, had been ripped out sometime before my purchase of the “work vehicle.” See number 4.<\/li>\n
  15. It had a very crappy tinting job, and there were bubbles all over. On the plus side, a lot of broken glass clung to the tinting film and I was able to throw it away as a single piece. See number 4.<\/li>\n
  16. The window had a huge crack in it. See number 4.<\/li>\n
  17. I didn’t let my wife drive it because I didn’t think she would survive a collision in it.<\/li>\n
  18. I didn’t really need it anymore. This should have been reason enough to part with it months ago, but when I decided to sell it, it was borrowed out. I had only had it back for a day or two when it left on its final voyage to 5,000RPM-interstate-travel-land, where it lost all the remaining value I could have otherwise gotten out of it. See number 2.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m told it’ll probably be shipped down to Mexico. It’s old-school technology, so I’m sure it will be kept running for many, many years down there.<\/p>\n

    Vaya con Dios, poco carro blanco!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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