Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

I use mine several times a week. It’s deeply ingrained into me since I was a kid to never let it drop. It’s simply second nature to me.

 

Wait dcso.. whos jeep is that and when did that happen?? Glad everyones ok

 

My friend Dave, he’s been to a couple of our outings. His daughter killed the poor Jeep. No word on how many plastic ducks were recovered.

 

The tailgate damper does sound a nice convenience. But, my hand works, too.

I could see it being convenient in those odd scenarios when I'm already in the bed and then decide to open the tailgate.

 

It's extremely convenient when you have your hands full with firewood or beer or something and have one free finger to pull the latch and just let it slowly fall.

 

Reported for snark.

 

I don't get it.
Could you explain?

 

I'm not one to fight against convenience. I love power windows and locks, cruise, etc. I'm also annoyed that they got rid of the hood struts on the new 4Runner.

I have had some issues with power tailgate latches, though.

 

Nowadays, anytime people don't cling to the hottest new technology, some folks assume it means that they're afraid of change or something.

 

I have seen shit like that before, awsome!!

 

My damper barely works anymore..

 

Ah the convenience of an ambulance... when family members dont want to drive their family to the er and sit there with them... call the ambulance.. and just hope another gets to the serious incident in time. Dispatch does flip flop us based on call acuity sometimes..

If only people would just rub some dirt in it like old times... well I'd be close to being out if a job :O
But if a farmer calls... weeeeeeewooooooo because they usually downplay their injuries..

dispatch "male who cut his leg with weed whacker"
Get on scene follows trail of blood to a door.. lady answers.. hey did you call 911 we are looking for a guy who got himself eith a weed whacker...
-no but my husband got his leg chewed up by a rototiller when his pants got stuck... find bandaids sprinkled on his leg like sprinkles.. all bled through torn and stained pant leg.. oh and hes on thinners but i can drive him right? ...
Well we dont reccomend it...
-its fine we werent even going to go to the hospital anyways...

Me -________- we stayed until they left the driveway

 

I’ll have you know, my grandmother rode the stage coach to high school. I’t amazing the changes in the world that she witnessed in her 102 years on this planet.

 

How about just the 60 some years we've been around???

 

I hope you’re not trying to imply that I’m one of those old people resisting change. I’ve been on the bleeding edge of modern tech both at work and home for the last 40+ years and I’ll never step away from that. I just find some things are silly overkill. It doesn’t need to be extreme expense and complexity to make it unnecessary, to me, if I’m adding expense and complexity, it damn well better be well worth it. As for sleeping in the bed of a truck? Only uncivilized rednecks and homeless do that! Damn…

 

True, but as an 8 year old, I watched the first moon landing. My grandmother grew up without running water, electricity or cars and witnessed everything in between that and the lunar landings. The period she lived through probably had the most extreme and extraordinary change in all of human history.

 

I was 7, glued to a b&w tv watching, the funny thing is the grands would never talk about the hard times but my pops & mom had stories of them.