Friday, October 30, 2009

FX4 find

This weekend three years ago, I bought my truck. I wanted to buy a bigger truck, with a diesel engine. I knew that I was going to have to buy used, new trucks were going to be to expensive. I really had my eye on a truck in hillsboro, but dad talked me out of it. I settled on a truck I found at beechmont ford for less that 20 grand. It had the look I wanted, with the dual exhaust and larger than normal tires. If I had bought a truck without those bells and whistles, I don't know that I would have spent the money to add the features I mentioned. At any rate, the truck has been real useful here on the farm. It can pull the grain head cart, full gravity wagons, full rail wagons, and hay wagons. It is big enough to haul around five people, and doesn't get horrible mileage. It has four wheel drive, and looks good when washed up nice. It would be nice to have a crew cab and flatbed truck, but those things are going to have to wait. Most people my age look to buy a car, but I knew that I was going to be a truck driver.

At the time I was driving a SUV that I had since I was 19. I was 24 when I bought my truck. The car was a 5 speed explorer sport. My parents just recently traded it in on the cash for clunkers deal. When I traded it in, the explorer was running on 5 cylinders and had wet seats. My brother drove it somewhere, parked it and left the windows down. Then it rained big time and my seats were soaking wet. I sat on a towel on the way to school and it still soaked through to my pants a little bit.

I am getting aggravated with the radio now though. I have always used a play and dock sirius s50 radio, and occasionally play a cd in it. The radio has now decided that if a cd is not in the player when I start the truck, a disc error message flashes on my display and the player makes a spinning noise. I might get a sirius radio that does in my dash and replaces my current setup.

I am also starting to find online dating profiles laughable. All girls seem to be writing and saying the same thing. On the other hand, my profile may be predictably as laughable. I doubt anyone else is admitting to being an aspiring banjo player or saying that their work schedule depends on the weather. Those two things have very little appeal, but I like to think it is honest at the minimum. I just wonder what I have to do to stand out? Do I even want to stand out or is the girl for me one who will like what I wrote?

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