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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 08/31/2011 09:29 AM
Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 08/31/2011 09:31 AM
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About Toys for Big Boys~ A Humor Column By The Copper Curmudgeon
I grew up riding motorcycles and for the most part of my young life, after getting my driver’s license at sixteen that became my mode of transportation. It was not until I realized that serious dating required a car that I bought my sweet little ’66 Mustang the pride of my life at that time. No one drove my Tang . . . until I met my wife and then I never drove it again . . . I drove my beat up ’54 Ford pick-up she drove the Tang....
Over the years I have enjoyed various motorcycles, cars, trucks of many distinctions, a few real nice boats and some other big boy toys. I wish I had the ’66 Mustang and the ’54 pick up back! But they were sold to accommodate vehicles that could handle children in car seats.
I’m at that age where a new toy needed to come into my life . . . and of course my entire crew of Harley riding buddies had their ideas of the right bike for me. Road King says one . . . no a soft tail is the REAL bike . . . then one friend not trying to hurt my feelings explained that “old guys” need comfort so I should be looking at the Ultra Classic with the wide seat? Yeah . . . that hurt. But he had a point.
Now my wife on the other hand had watched me go on med calls when I was a volunteer with the local Fire District picking up the people from the pavement that were on Harleys and putting them in air ambulances to fly out to trauma centers in the valley. She actually drove by a few while we were working the patients.
Seems her position was anyone on a Harley is a target for disaster no matter if it’s your fault or not. She told me that if you hit something on your bike . . . you lose. If someone else hits you on your bike . . . you lose. And then her math that a 6000lb vehicle driving into or over an 800lb vehicle = a very bad day for the 800lb vehicle.
So shopping for a new Harley was out . . . in her mind. Me . . . I’m just not that smart. Nothing like that would ever happen to me . . . I’m immortal . . . but I keep reading about motorcycles down on our foothill roads and most times it is not the riders fault but someone ends up hurt or worse and usually the passenger gets the worst of the damage.
Then it struck me . . . how about a Jeep? I have had many four wheel drive units. When I was a kid deer hunting . . . my job was to drive one of the camp Jeeps which seemed like a great gift from the old men in camp to let the kid drive the Jeep.
Except that I finally figured out that to drive the camp Jeep did not allow me much hunting time and when a deer was shot and rolled 400 yards down into the steep valley . . . it was my 15 year old Jeep driving butt that was responsible for climbing down and packing the dead deer back up to the Jeep . . . told you I’m not that smart.
Now I found a Jeep online and with my wife’s blessing I go test drive this toy and immediately fall in love. I got it at a good price and then pretty much had our local shop rebuild most everything.
New complete cooling system, new windshield, new O2 sensor, new fuel sensor, new front drive line, new rear U joints, new front driver’s seat, new led tail lights, new wheels and tires and all the fluids changed. Get the picture . . . the wife is looking at me thinking maybe I should have let him buy the Harley.
The project is pretty much complete and the great part is she and I have too much fun taking rides in the Jeep so it’s all good and man does this beast climb a hill. The hill climbing I do alone . . . I haven’t taken the wife wheelin’ yet . . . that might be a little over the top.
Right after I bought the Jeep and had all the new equipment installed . . . I get a phone call from one of my daughters . . . it goes like this;
Daughter: Dad . . . you know how my little sister needs a new car because she does not like driving your fully loaded Chevy Silverado Z-71 4x4 pick-up?
Dad: I thought she liked driving the pick-up?
Daughter: No Dad she hates it . . . so here’s my idea. I’ll give my little sister my car and then you get your pick-up back for you to drive.
Dad: You have a big heart that’s very nice of you . . . but when you give your sister your car . . . what will you drive?
Daughter: Oh no problem . . . I’ll drive the Jeep.
Dad: Goodnight dear . . . click.
I really am smarter now . . . her mother taught me that lesson a long time ago.
I know . . . just sit here and be quiet . . .
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