[jtrain609]

I'm right with you, Stan. But I have to go on a rant here, anyone that lives up in the northern part of the world knows what I'm talking about:

Why do people that never drive in serious snow and/or go off roading drive SUV's and trucks? I'll be driving around Ann Arbor and/or the metro Detroit area and see SUV's and trucks all over the place. These people drive them on plowed city streets, never drive in a foot and a half of snow like they are designed to do and never take the things off road or carry a full load in the back of their truck (spotless and perfectly painted bed's are a good sign of this one). WHat's up with this? You spend $30,000+ on a serious off road vehicle to carry around you and your Starbucks at 15 mpg? What are you thinking?

Really gets to me. Where I'm from, you get a truck because you got something to haul. You drive an SUV because we'll get 1-2 feet of snow in a night and the road to your house might not be plowed for a week. That's why you get a vehicle with 4 wheel drive, not beacuse it's cool.

And for someone that's about to drop the "SUV's have lots of room line," they don't. My mini-van can haul three times as much stuff as my parents Jimmy. And after loading stuff into rich people's SUV's at Toys R Us for a summer, I really realized how LITTLE room these things have.

And in the words of my friend Deano, who lived in the middle of no where and hated people from the city: "Stupid townies."

Cheers


John Herreshoff