The combo of "Tool" and "Douche Bag" is always a crowd pleaser and highly effective when conveying a certain level of distaste for another
I've had two Nissans. A tough little SOB of a Frontier that towed and oversized bass boat from Northern California to Texas and lived to tell about and a Pathfinder I drove across the country 3x and used it as a daily driver before trading it in.
I like Ford over most American makes and if I ever get a muscle car it will be a Mustang. I was on a buy American made tilt for a long time until I owned a fucking Chrysler. Biggest POS ever. Had so many issues even the mechanics could never figure it. Fucking thing was possessed or infested with gremlins. Not sure which.
I love my truck today. When I bought it, it was between this, a 2018 Tacoma or a 2022 Ford Maverick. The Mav was a pardon my French, a pussy truck. I owned that Ford Fusion plug in hybrid and the Mav was basically that car with a truck body and cheap plastic interior.
Meanwhile the Tacoma was lifted and blacked out and yep had that access cab for a big ass subwoofer box and I built a platform for my dogs to ride in it too. I'd buy this truck 10x over again if I could.
It has a certain level of evil to it with the aftermarket headlights I put in and the body armor all around. In the city you need a truck like this to make all these fuckers back off. Nobody cuts me off or tailgate me anymore like they did when I had that Fusion. I don't bully with it either. It just does the talking for me with the way it looks.
It's even killed a KIA so I guess it really is a Murder Truck. Some dipshit in a Kia Sol wanted me to run a red light and I didn't so he ended up rear ending me hard and impaled his radiator on my rear bumper armor. Killed that fucking Kia right there. DOA. Meanwhile I drove off only needing to get out a can of flat black Krylon to fix the scuff.
The Fusion was a great car and I loved not buying gas but I'll never own another electric car again. It's a 100% economy based decision.
The funding for my work largely comes from very rich donors who make their money in oil. So when covid hit and everybody stopped driving for two years, they lost money, their donations dried up, and I was furloughed. Then when college sports resumed it was on limited budgets with no raises or overtime until this past year.
So I did my part and invested in a gas truck so I'd use gas but also I needed and wanted a truck. Then when the EV craze went full bloom I sold that Fusion and made a killing off it.
Now EV's are fucking lame and for pansy ass techbros or little girls IMO. They're not doing shit to save the planet with all the mining needed for lithium batteries and they're charged using electric from fossil fuels so what's the point?
Fuel efficient gasoline trucks or hybrids are where it's at IMO.
And BTW...If you think the Cybertruck is bad....Check out a Rivian. Fugliest and weirdest truck on the road. Damn grill looks like the truck is taking it up the ass dry and has this surprised look with those headlights. And the techbros driving them might even be worse than the techbro fucks in the Cybertrucks!
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I missed one week from Covid only because I was forced to. I was nice when the city and campus was empty but it was weird doing the normal routine of life while the world was hold up in hiding, scared to do anything. I just went on like normal then when everybody finally came out of hiding I was like, come on out! The water's warm! Lets go back to work and make a living again!!