Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for January 15, 2017
Transcript:
suddenly, lurching from the darkness, the hideous behemoth was upon me, bellowing terribly and spouting noxious fumes!! collision was imminent!! but I mustered all my strength, and with one swift stroke I cleaved the rampaging beast in twain!! man: dude, my escalade... tyr: Whoops!...I destroy more s.u.v.s this way...
Well more SUVs need it. Actually more SUVs and four wheel drives being driven by folks who really don’t need to be driving them but do so because their “status symbols” need it. I honestly don’t understand these folks who live in places where they don’t need these vehicles but have to have them. Like a guy in a big city that hardly ever sees snow and who doesn’t get out in the country really needs a 4WD.
“Hey Bob, why’d you buy that Subaru Forester? It’s not like you going to need four wheel drive here in the city.”
“Yeah, that’s true, John. But I might go camping or something and then I might need it to get out of the mud or something.”
“So you thinking of going camping?”
“What, and get my car all covered in mud? Are you nuts or something!?!”