Friday's Rant: "Truck Nuts"

Preface: The entire editorial staff here at the Iowa Blog Cabin work very hard to keep things rated PG or maybe PG-13. To some of our more sensitive readers, this might be on the more PG-13 side...you're warned. But it needs to be said. Don't run from the truth. Embrace it.
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I've made note several times how I spend a lot of time in the car...and often, I spend a lot of time driving behind MORONS who, as I follow them, amaze me that they're even still alive. That said, it's happened again. Another uniquely American cultural phenomenon and something that absolutely baffles me...something called "truck nuts" (see photo)

The first time I saw them I had no idea what I was looking at...the second time I saw them, it began to dawn on me what they kind of looked like...the third time I saw them I realized what they had to be - and I couldn't believe it. After I realized what they had to be I distinctly remember yelling out loud, "why in the hell would anybody want to hang those things from their truck!" It's unbelievable. What is the psychology of a person who sees those and says, "I need me one of them."

Now you're probably asking yourself, how did you learn so much about this? Well, I googled it. You can buy your own set online for about $25. What's amazing is that there are dozens of sites selling them. I guess that's one part that gives me hope for America and the future of our economy. Somewhere out there right now, there is a guy MAKING A LIVING off of selling rubber cow balls that dangle from truck bumpers. Name another country where that's possible...

Regardless...

Friends and neighbors, come on! Perhaps it's one argument against evolution...no life form that is genuinely evolving would ever evolve into this! I'm not going to speak for the rest of the country, but, I feel safe in saying - very, very few people want to drive down the highway and pass your truck with fake cow balls dangling from your back bumper! Who wants to see that? Grow up! I would hazard to guess that the same people who hang fake cow balls from their back bumper are the same people that wear crocs while their girlfriends smash their nasty hobbit feet against the front windshield when driving down the road.

We can do better...seriously.

Breathe in, breathe out...this week's rant is over.