| Academic *One of the activities my college supports is a student-only mud bog *To avoid doing homework *To see the looks on the faces of the high school students as you roll into the parking lot for their donation car wash with a solid inch of mud on your truck *MUD, SAND, and ROCKS all taste better than CAFETERIA food *Heckling 12 high schoolers with a stock Exploder buried up to it's flood boards, who are trying to pull on it with a ratchetstrap,some clothesline, and an S-10, is far more entertaining than Survivor will ever be. Vehicular Maintenance *My seals start to leak when the weather changes unless I acclimate them by off-roading *My suspension needs stretching three times a week to minimize stiffening of the joints *The heavy downpours have washed some of the artwork off the quarter-panels, and I need a quick touch-up *To see if my new performance mod really works *With all the mud on the truck no one will notice the rust *The rubbers are starting to dry-rot *Lifted trucks make changing the oil a breeze *You just washed your rig and you need to get it dirty again *You just fixed what you broke last weekend and you need to break it again *You need to see if that upgraded drive shaft will hold up *You can't have enough dirt on a 4x4 *You just rebuilt your hydrolocked engine and can't wait to really conquer that river once and for all-again *You don't like the color of your 4x4' so you keep it covered in mud *Your truck rides better off-road than on-road *I washed all the mud off and now I can see all the dents and missing paint *To use breakage as an excuse to upgrade *You want to see if the rubber strap and duct tape were really gonna hold *May as well put that all-importent first scratch in the rattle can camo paint job *Add to the mud on the inside of the windshield that's been there for over a year *To use breakage as an excuse to go to the local parts store to lookgadgets you can't live with out Environment *Nature can overtake a trail in 24 hours if not ridden regularly *The trail will dry out if the dirt is not turned over every two days *To save on gas by not having to take the long way into town *Core samples removed from your quarter-panels revealed indigenous soil from two states *To keep those used tractor tires out of the landfill by recycling them onto your truck *To actually enjoy the environment everyone else says they're protecting *To show people that in order to love the earth and her landscape you need to experience her, not shut down the roads and ignore her *To do one's share in opposing land closer laws *You need to collect dirt to soak up some of that oil your truck left inthe parking lot *To enjoy the great out doors *Get in touch with nature *There's fresh snow on the ground *It just finished raining *It's raining, the dirt is turning into mud, streams are flooding, and it's all calling my name Concerned Citizen *You need to see if anybody got stuck in that rut you made yesterday *For the feeling you get when you pull a cute-ute out of the ditch the morning after a storm *The desire to drop your junk into 4-lo and try to wheel those nice steepstairs in the park Gratuitous Justification *Remembering the reason you got the job in the first place was to buy a lift kit *It's something to do with your beater *You wont have to park at the end of your driveway anymore *To make people say what's so fun about that *To convince yourself you didn't buy that TRD or Z-71 package just for the cool sticker *"Cool truck" they will say *Everyone who wheels waves at you *To go see santa,There's no highway to the north pole don't cha know *Nobody parks so close that you can't get your door open *Nobody ever asks to borrow your truck after a day of wheeling *A Novawith a 350 on blocks and a Blazer without a motor you do the math *You just got a new set of KC lights and want to know what they mean by "that deer in the headlights look" *If it wasn't for four-wheel drives a lot of hard working Americans would be unemployed *To break stuff and wrack your brain figuring out how to fix it in the middle of Big Bend National Park *To fix a broken steering system with duct tape, bailing wire, a tire iron, and two car batteries *Getting tied of all the stupid people you have to deal with daily? You can go off-road and watch their kind get stuck *You have to ruin your 31's so you can justify buying those those 33's *You need to reassure your self that you still enjoy if *You just finished mounting that ford aspire to a Suzuki frame *The only to get to work is with 4WD *You need to practice wheeling for when it becomes an Olympic sport *5,000 show and shine rigs at a Jamboree need to see how to get dirty *Playing where our friends with only half a drive line only dream of going *It's more fun than hot rodding *It's how i justify driving a big Chevy truck that gets 3 mpg instead of a Honda that gets 40 *You need to put that $2,000 to good use *To show you ignorant pal why you put with 3'500 rpm at 70 mph, lug thump and piss-poor brakes *Every so often some one else's rig is bound to break PAGE 2 |
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