It's a Manly Texas Truck Guy Thing

[Texsox]

Spring - Break My Back-Yard

 

So this has been a busy week of manly stuff, building decks, using power tools, and getting stuff done. Today was the pinnacle moment.

 

Yesterday we started sodding our back yard. This would ultimately require two pallets of sod. I have a common Texas vehicle, a Ford F-150. Stock in almost everyway. I was a bit worried about putting so much weight in the bed of the truck and did some research. My research led to a forum and FordFan4Ever said no problem! It’s a Ford! How was I to argue with a guy who had over 10,000 posts on a Ford forum?

 

As the fork lift driver lowered the pallet into my truck the truck slouched 12 inches. It dropped like a rock, I half expected the tires to pop. But they held just fine. Driving home I was passed by a Prius driver and we were eye level to eye level. My truck was a close to a Cheech and Chong low rider as I ever want to get. Eventually I arrived at home relieved. We laid that 450 square feet and thought about tomorrow.

 

This time I was confident. I took my place in the lineup, we were door to door, probably six trucks total. . I was second to last pulling in next to a large enclosed landscapers trailer. When I walked back outside a Chevy 1500 was parked next to me. A few minutes later the owner of the truck came out, lowered his tailgate like mine and we both waited. We were striking the macho guy pose. Foot up on the bumper, gloves in hand, you could smell the testosterone in the air. This was guy stuff. Guys with trucks that were being used for real work. Not the usual commute to work stuff. As we watched the forklift guy I thought what is more manly than having your truck loaded by a forklift? This isn’t lifting a couple bags of cat litter in the bed, this is major weight with a forklift.

 

The guy with the Chevy starts to look a little a nervous. He asks me if I think his truck can handle a pallet. I reply, “I dunno, but my Ford handles it just fine”. Yeah, I went there. That’s manly trash talking. He nods knowing he was upstaged. We discussed the manly projects we were doing. We agreed how great it is that we have trucks and don’t have to pay to have stuff delivered like guys without trucks. We continue our manly poses, clutching our work gloves as if we would be needed to instantly spring into action. Because that’s what manly men do.

 

Then forklift guy grabs a pallet of sod and heads our way. I move to the other side of the truck and look back just as he turned to load the truck two spaces away. The landscaper's truck pulls away and we’re staring at the biggest, black, F350 diesel dually being loaded with a second pallet of sod. His truck doesn’t budge. It just stands there and takes 3,500 pounds on it.s back like it was nothing. That diesel engine was sucking up all the testosterone in the air and spitting it out. Suddenly I was back to being an English Teacher with baby soft hands

:”So what did you think of Laurie Hernandez winning last season’s Dancing with the Stars?”

[Jerksticks]

Great post! That diesel probably helped the forklift lift the pallets and said "i got it from here youngster."

 

How bout all the guys "big truckin it" down here with their dodge rams. Those friggin tow mirrors always out 3 feet to help them see around their ghost trailers.