Hi, I'm Life, and your truck is doomed. Forget those clean shiny rigs you see going down the highway; you and I both knew that was never in the cards for you. No, you had reasonable expectations of keeping your new truck in mechanical sound shape with a fairly clean body. AFter all, you bought it new in 2000.
What are expectations if I can't crush them? I'm Life and I know these things.
First, it's your wife's truck and she had every right to hit that deer. She was listening to a Christian song on the radio, remember what she told you? She coulda missed the deer but for love of God. How could you argue with that? It only lightly dented the passenger fender anyway.
Next, you go around a curve on a dirt road and some careless people meet you there by leaving their lane and taking yours. This dented the grill guard, as the people were uninsured and poor, you let it go.
Then, God again; your wife loaded up the truck with babies and her mother, and took the Winter road to Malta for Church. 5 or 6 other cars went off the black ice that day, but yours found the cedar fence post and T-boned around it.
Everyone was fine, but it did wake up the two oldest children. Your wife complained of knee pain, as she has for 16 years, and you ignored this. Unfortunately for you, she drove 100 miles after work once a week for accupunture- and you got the kids for 16 hours straight. Small price to pay.
When the truck was fixed, most of the problems were over. Getting a replacement bed solved some of the deer damage of years before, and they even had a plastic liner.
And the Factory even replaced the ball joints that failed after only 78 thousand miles. Life was too good to you.
To remind you that everything dies, all must perish, and you can't take it with you, today you found a spot on the passenger rear fender where someone dinged you in a parkinglot. Goodbye restored truck. Oh, it's not that bad- probably 1600 to fix if you really wanted to. But you and I both know your insurance won't cover your problems forever, so you'll eat this one.
You know what? Have you thought about your next vehicle purchase? That truck is almost paid for and nearly worthless; time for another.
Buy American and keep those jobs here!
munk
What are expectations if I can't crush them? I'm Life and I know these things.
First, it's your wife's truck and she had every right to hit that deer. She was listening to a Christian song on the radio, remember what she told you? She coulda missed the deer but for love of God. How could you argue with that? It only lightly dented the passenger fender anyway.
Next, you go around a curve on a dirt road and some careless people meet you there by leaving their lane and taking yours. This dented the grill guard, as the people were uninsured and poor, you let it go.
Then, God again; your wife loaded up the truck with babies and her mother, and took the Winter road to Malta for Church. 5 or 6 other cars went off the black ice that day, but yours found the cedar fence post and T-boned around it.
Everyone was fine, but it did wake up the two oldest children. Your wife complained of knee pain, as she has for 16 years, and you ignored this. Unfortunately for you, she drove 100 miles after work once a week for accupunture- and you got the kids for 16 hours straight. Small price to pay.
When the truck was fixed, most of the problems were over. Getting a replacement bed solved some of the deer damage of years before, and they even had a plastic liner.
And the Factory even replaced the ball joints that failed after only 78 thousand miles. Life was too good to you.
To remind you that everything dies, all must perish, and you can't take it with you, today you found a spot on the passenger rear fender where someone dinged you in a parkinglot. Goodbye restored truck. Oh, it's not that bad- probably 1600 to fix if you really wanted to. But you and I both know your insurance won't cover your problems forever, so you'll eat this one.
You know what? Have you thought about your next vehicle purchase? That truck is almost paid for and nearly worthless; time for another.
Buy American and keep those jobs here!
munk
Oh! Wait! Never mind, her old man's name isn't Terry, forgot there fer an instant.
I don't need to tell you that's not good for a car. It also became an accident magnet. Rear ended while stopped. Hit while parked. Rear ended while stopped. You see a pattern, here? Paid it off and sold it off. Picked up a '65 Baja Bug. What the heck was I thinking? I've had it three years, now, and have replaced half of everything. I still have to replace the other half 
I think I've had too much coffee and not enough sleep. Ending innane rambling now