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Re: The Dreaded Driving-The-Truck Rule <Re: The Dreaded Third Date Rule

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From: takworld
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00
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Alex Osinski wrote:
> 
> >Tony Konashenok wrote:
> >>
> >> Having an old truck as the main transportation also tells something
> >> about the person's mentality.
> >>
> >> There was also an old teaser that macho types buy big trucks to
> >>compensate for certain body parts being undersize...
> >>
> >> Tony K
> >
> 
> I guess I have to wonder what you mean by "old truck".  Girls seem to
> hate my Ford F250, even after I removed the gun racks and "God Guns &
> Guts" bumper stickers. But guess who gets called when it is moving time?
> 
> On the other hand, I have a really junky old Cougar that the girls think
> is cool, but I can't stand it (I would have done better to cut out the
> middleman and just put the three grand in the toilet). It has a hot
> chromed out motor and loud headers, but otherwise is unsightly.
> 
> Everybody over 40 thinks my cherried out old Charger must be a "babe
> magnet" but I have yet to account for that car getting me "lucky" once.
> If anything, I think it makes the women my age suspicios. i.e "excuse me,
> but what are you planing to do taking me out in a car with such a big
> back seat?"
> 
> Given that my body part size expands and contracts within relatively
> constant parameters when I drive any of the three vehicles, but one
> vehicle is markedly louder and more powerful sounding relative to its
> size, I would surmise that women judge the size of a man's body part by
> the relative size of the exhaust system on his car. Anybody with a
> similarly researched conclusion is welcome to contribute. :>

Jez, what kind of women are you guys interacting with???  Oh, yeah, this 
is California where cars are some sort of status symbol.  You just have 
to wonder if it's the type of women you guys are pursuing (or allowing 
yourselves to be pursued by) while the ones who couldn't give a flying 
fish about cars and things symbolizing anything more than a means of 
transportation are passing by without any recognition by you at all, or 
if it's just Memorex.
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From: takworld <takworld@sirius.com>
Subject: Re: The Dreaded Driving-The-Truck Rule <Re: The Dreaded Third Date Rule
Date: 1996/05/19
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