Wednesday, August 17, 2005

You Are What You... Drive?

I'm pretty sure most of us have heard the phrase, "You are what you eat!" Well, I think I might change that to "You Are What You Drive!" For example, I drive a '93 Ford Ranger that is Metallic Blue (at least in the right sunlight, or lack thereof), has no AC, and has over 200,000 miles on it. It stands out just because of the blue color. I also stand out, not because of my good looks or impressive physique, but because of my red/orange colored hair and pasty complexion (the teens I work with say I look like a ghost). I'm not getting the AC fixed because I can live without it and it costs too much. I'm a pretty cheap guy all around and this is one showing of it. And 200,000 miles on a truck, well, again I will defer to the teens I work with, who think I'm old (I'm only 26...)! The truck needs a lot of work, is rough around the edges, and has a lot of self-done jobs on it, such as the cd player (installed by my good friend Barry- the ash tray has never been the same since). I likewise consider myself to be rough around the edges and not completely perfect. Another interesting feature about my truck is the horn that sounds like a dying cow (it got that way when I ran into a deer going about 65 mph). I'll leave out any analogies to this lovely feature.
There'll be more to follow, but this is a good start to getting to know the man behind the truck!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Dan the Man! Nice to see your blog today as referred by Matt Hamilton! I hope all is well, we should play some poker with Josh and Barry again soon!

Luke said...

Dan,

I'm glad to know you're still driving your old truck. As you might have read, mine got smashed up pretty good and now I'm the proud owner of a Nissan Altima (very un-trucklike).

Welcome to the wide world of blogging.

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