[hyperbovine]

Recently did a one-day rental on a late model American pickup truck for a cross-town move. I absolutely could not believe the ground clearance and (lack of) view out the front of that thing. (My frame of reference is a bicycle and, occasionally, a Honda fit from the aughts.) You literally need a sort of ladder, which comes standard, to get in. Driving it was what I, previously, imagined getting behind the wheel of a semi-truck to be. It amazes me that auto mfrs can just ramp the size of these things up without any regard to how it might affect others on the road or sidewalk.

[readthenotes1]

My small car was totaled in a fast food parking lot be a ford f-250 whose driver claimed to literally not have seen me when he broadsided me. it was easy to believe as his hood was higher than my roof.

[rajnathani]

Side (off-topic): I really like how I finally found the missing word for the 2000-2009s: "aughts".

[themaninthedark]

I prefer "Dawn of the millennium"