[RKDinOKC]

i've never owned a pickup truck. Sports cars, sedans, coupes, vans, wagons, and SUVs, but no pickup trucks. Closest I've come is a full size GMC Jimmy/Blazer. More like an SUV than pickup.

Brother told me I needed a pickup to tow stuff. After he loaded a tractor on a trailer and it ripped the rear bumper off his pickup truck, hitched the same trailer to the class 3 hitch on my Jeep Cherokee and towed the same tractor 30 miles out to the farm just fine.

My nephew's 3 boys love pickup trucks. They are always wearing cowboy boots, cowboy hats, and the belts with a big buckle. I don't think any of them have ever knowingly been within 100 yds of a cow or horse.

When I was 14 my best friend and I did a lot of free work for his Dad that ran cattle. My friend wore the typical cowboy getup of boots and felt cowboy hat. I wore my rubber wading boots and a pith helmet I had for working in my dad's large garden. My friend, his dad and all the ranch hands teased me for looking like an english sheep herder. I did notice the vet was also wearing rubber boots. After the day was done they had to spend a lot of time cleaning up and treating thier leather boots when I just had to hose my rubber boots off. Also I never slipped and fell like they did in the muddy pens. And their felt cowboy hats were always sweaty and stained. My pith helmet was much cooler and still looks brand new. In fact, I sewed a porsche logo patch on the front and still wear my pith helmet any time I will be out in the sun to keep my ears and neck from burning, ie. at an autocross or car show or example. Have even considered getting a pith helmet with a solar powered fan for those hot days with no wind.

I don't even listen to country music. Guess I just don't fit into the country scene.