What Good is a Mid-Size Truck

[mnaz]

What good is a mid-sized pickup?
Can't do what small or big trucks do.
Overpowered enough to be annoying,
yet can't tow enough to be worth it.
Why no more compact trucks?
Where is my consumer choice?
Dammit.

[sasha]

I hate my Smartphone.
there, I've said it.
I hate the fucking thing.
oh, but you need it, they say.
(They, again...)
it does Everything!
you can look stuff up:
addresses
routes
baseball scores from 1987
track the stock market
study a 3x5 inch map of the world
watch movies, shoot pictures, play music, identify mushrooms, order pizza,
comparison shop for ball-peen hammers...
but by the time I push all that shit aside
and figure out how to answer or place a call
they've either hung up
or my contact list has mysteriously changed
and no one can tell me why
and I've stopped asking

[mnaz]

oh, but you need it, they say ...

That's how it starts. YOU NEED THIS. MUST HAVE THAT. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

Plenty of examples ...

Actually, no, I DON'T need 300 horsepower in (what passes for) a "small" (satire?) truck.

[mnaz]

I need a Congressional inquiry into this. Seriously. Nah, just kidding, or not? I'll just try to find an older rig in decent shape. Jesus, why would anyone ever spend such huge money on a new pickup truck (large or "small") that you'd need to get a mortgage on it to buy it? THAT HAS NEVER BEEN WHAT THE PICKUP TRUCK IN AMERICA WAS ABOUT. HELLOOOOO!