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Article: RIDING INTO THE SUNSET IN MY TRUSTY PICKUP TRUCK
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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Knock on wood, I have 165,000 miles on my pickup truck, and she
still runs like a top. Nevertheless, when my wife found a greasy
rubber doohickey lying in the road up to the house, I began to
wonder: Is this the beginning of the end? Is my trusty ol' pickup
truck beginning to come apart?
Except for the occasional delivery truck, my wife and I are the
only ones who drive that particular stretch of road between the
mailbox and the house. It seems obvious, then, that the rubber
doohickey came from either her vehicle or mine. And since my pickup
truck is the older of the two, it's probably mine.
And here I thought things had been going so well between my
pickup truck and me.
Sure, we've had ...