My truck’s the youngest one of the two here…..

…..and it’s eighteen years old…..

…..my older daughter’s truck is a 1990…..

*****She’s A Classic*****

…..her truck was born three years before she was…..

They’re both diesels…..

…..(the two trucks…..not my daughter)…..

A well-maintained diesel engine can last a long, long time…..

We really try to take care of ours…..

Oil changes…..fluid levels…..that sort of stuff…..

My daughter’s truck is old and very quirky…..

…..the other night (when she returned home after dark) her truck’s lights would not go off…..

…..no matter what she did…..

She turned off the engine…..

She turned off the lights…..

…..the lights stayed on…..

They just WOULDN’T go off…..

…..not until she unhooked both batteries…..

…..???…..

It was a little spooky…..

…..seeing her truck’s headlights staring back at us through the windows of the bedroom…..

…..out there in the dark…..

…..in the foggy swamp…..

…..with the owls…..and the other night-critters…..

…..and the skittering slimy’s…..

I’ve seen the movie………….with the possessed car…..

*****Christine, 1983 Film*****

Christine’s got nothin’ on my daughter’s truck!!!

She scared the @#$%^&^#$* out of us…..!!!

My friend Ester has her own “Christine”…..

But her’s is a Mercedes Benz…..she has up-scale-possession-problems…..

…..her trunk lid shuts on her hands automatically…..her GPS-system gets snarky & talks back…..

…..and she sees apparitions in her back-up TV…..

(okay…..I may have made up that last one…..or maybe I’ve given her Benz a new idea…..?)

We desperately needed to enlist the help (and exorcism) from our Super-D-Dooper diesel mechanic…..Steve…..

…..and some holy water…..

My truck…..however…..mostly needs interior/cosmetic work…..

…..and an oil change…..and new belts…..and a lube-job…..

…..and heavy-duty deodorizing from the hefty/residual odors of well-percolated/summer-steamed multiple-puppy-litter trips to the vets with the obligatory puking and pee’ing…..

…..but mostly…..it’s just needs re-upholstering of the torn-up/cracked-leather seats with its chewed-on/inside stuffing…..

I guess it’s fair to say at this point that our trucks are only utilitarian vehicles…..

…..Ester’s Benz is much easier on the eyes…..

And her car smells nicer too…..