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The gas station guy in Tulsa quoted my dad's old truck and I froze
Stopped for gas off Route 66 around 11pm a few months back and the clerk, Darryl, noticed my beat up '94 pickup and said his uncle drove the same one to Alaska twice. We talked for maybe 10 minutes about the dent in the door and how his uncle patched it with a soup can. He told me not to sell it, that the newer ones quit on you. Still driving it, but I keep wondering why that one chat got under my skin so bad.
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ray_miller8420d ago
That line about "the newer ones quit on you" is just nostalgia talking. Guys at gas stations love to romanticize old trucks, but a 94 pickup with a soup can patched door is a death trap on the highway, no airbags, brakes that barely work, and you're lucky it starts in winter. Darryl talked to you for ten minutes because he was bored at 11pm, not because he saw some kind of soul in your truck. Keep it if you like it, but don't let a random clerk's uncle story make you feel guilty about wanting something safer.
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