...trend setters...

well, it seems like the trend setters always manage to find their way into my little corner of the world...biggest new trend and to me, the most puzzling...suburbia went from mini-van, to suv and cross-over (who gets to coin these names anyway?) to now, much to my dismay, the heavy duty quad cab 4x4...monster trucks...but the problem here, is every second vehicle dropping off kidlets to katie potato's school is one of these...the others are grossly overpriced and over ego inflated beamers, mercedes, and lexus'...in case you're interested, my car is old enough to go into the bar by itself and order drinks...oh and to vote...just thought i put that out there...

...but these monster trucks roar in, scare the shit out of me, stop, then let out some kid that needs a stepladder to get out of the truck...they should just have a slide, or a fireman's pole...shit...i am so sorry, but TANGENT TIME!!!...grandmama's husband 'pop', was a fire chief in my little corner of the world...they always had separate bedrooms...she says it was because of shiftwork, but the rumour is it was because of pop's hose....pride of the fire department he was!!!...she had this most amazing bathroom, we called it "fantasy in pink" absolutely everything was pink, EVERYTHING! (if you didn't know what to get grandmama for a gift, anything pink was always the way to go)...well pop (maybe others as well) was not allowed to poop in the pink bathroom...he had this hell hole downstairs for his bodily eliminations...when we were kids we reveled in the thought of pooping in the pink toilet, wiping our poopy little bums with pink toilet paper, washing our poopy hands with pink soap that looked and smelled like a rose, and then picking the fanciest, showpiece pink 'guest towel' to dry our poopy little hands on, and then turn out the pink chandelier...

... i am racking my brain trying to figure what this monster truck fad is all about...the thing that puzzles me is that there is never anything in the box of the truck...you would think something, some explanation would show from time to time, but nope, the box is always empty...sadly, we now have home depot, rona, and canadian tire in my little corner of the world, we call it the 'man mall', but it's mostly just old people looking for plumbing parts (isn't is funny how seniors' plumbing on their house, packs it in about the same time as their 'interior plumbing' from their bodies)...so if not for the big box stores, why??...it can't just be the old overcompensating thing as most of these trucks are driven by moms...oh wait...maybe these are women who have small breasts but can't afford implants so buy the next best thing, a $40,000 pick-up truck...this is probably the reason...'woman has small breasts, so buys monster truck, which impresses a man, (but man with a small...appendage) who loves the truck so is willing to overlook the small breasts'...one SMALL problem though for the woman....she loses her truck and gains a boyfruend with a very, very small...appendage...if only she had stuck to the soccer mom mini-van!!