This story goes with the picture, so if you haven’t got a picture you won’t know what I’m trying to say.
This is a photo of my vehicle. I’m very proud of it and enjoy using it. The other day I was at the service station to put air in the tires and a mechanic came straight up to me and asked if I wanted to sell it. I said I wasn’t keen to sell it because they weren’t that easy to come by these days and I use it for collecting firewood and stuff.
He said he’d offer a good price, but I said I’d like the money but I don’t want to freeze my butt off in winter. So it’s not for sale. He didn’t seem to mind that much, and in fact helped me to put air in the tires.
I said to him that I didn’t have a clue what pressure the air should be in the tires but he seemed to know. He said it wasn’t uncommon for people to come in and get air for the tires for similar things. I couldn’t help but think if there were so many “similar” vehicles why on earth was he that keen to buy mine?
Incidentally the ugly white pick-up belongs to a friend of mine. Mine is the cute little red one to the right.
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I like that you called it by a neutral term, so as not to puzzle your international readers. But, what is an utu, mentioned in your tags?
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Corrected thank you! For the sake of international readers – ute is short for utility vehicle (i.e. a pick-up). “Utu” is the NZ Maori word for Revenge so be careful!
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Knowledge is power.
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Excellent! Really had me chuckling! Oldies are definitely the best too.
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Thank you Chris. The ute (white thing) is 1989. Do you use the word ute in UK?
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No, but I think that it is quite a widely known abbreviation due to Aussie soap operas!
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I didn’t see it but Yvonne mentioned that you said “ute”… another word!
I found this: A Ute vehicle is a mix between a sedan and a pickup truck.
To Americans, the ute would probably not pass as a truck. Compared to pickup trucks in the United States, it is definitely on the smaller scale.
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We don’t use the phrase “pick-up”. Your “pick-ups” of all sizes we call utes. If it fits in your garage. A big haulage truck or articulated truck we usually call a “lorry”. The photo of my white ute would be regarded as small and old (1989) – Toyota Hilux. The tray (deck?) holds a lot more than those great big pick-ups which strike me as being more for show than for cartage!
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I’ve heard of a lorry before…in Beatle books. I have a small old…uh truck I guess…a 1985 Chevy S10 just for taking out the garbage or whatever.
I do like the smaller “pick-ups” more.
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The 1985 Chevy S10 looks perfect! I like pre-computerized vehicles because basically you just need to get a small part and fix it yourself!
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Yes! I have a friend who works on my car…I have a small Toyota Scion…I call it a rolling toaste…it’s bright yellow. He swears when he works on it. “Get a car pre-2000 Max!” He had to jack the engine up just to change the alternator.
I’ll always keep that truck…just because I can work on that one.
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I was kind of getting excited there is going to be a murder through tyre burst, though probably not a first around this encyclopaedic enterprise on killing people. As for the offer to buy, people in automotive servicing industry seem to have a sharp eye for well maintained ageing vehicles. I used to get an offer for my old car nearly every time I took it to the workshop for a service.
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I was so sure there was going to be some form of sudden death also, Uma.
How are you these days?
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No one has mentioned my little red trolley.
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I hadn’t even noticed it, to be honest!
In my best suck-up voice “Oh, Bruce what a cute little redhand trolley you have.”
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Everyone seems to have missed the point of the joke and talked about the ute. I guess they never looked at the photo. I thought (and still think) it was one one of the funniest things I ever posted. Oh well. I shall move on toward 2500 and disappear. Can’t wait!
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Honestly. We miss one tiny little detail and you go all tragic on us. As penance, you now have to go to 3000 stories.
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No penance. I wish to be freed of blogging. I think I shall try to read Latin or something instead. After 8 years I need something different!
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With this ute the tray/deck fits a lot more on than a big modern on so people want them to transport stuff. My sister has a big modern one and I can transport a lot more on mine!
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I am fine, by and large. Thanks, Yvonne, and how are you?
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Gullible mechanic but one who knows an antique when he sees it. Or was it a she?
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These days – she or he – one wouldn’t dare say.
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Joe Diffy would be proud.
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Honk! Honk! Honky Tonk!
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Maybe you could use it to move the third rock from the sun.
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According to some, the third rock has already moved.
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That’s because Archimedes was given a place to stand.
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I saw the trolley, we call them dollies, and I got the joke and laughed. The discussion about the word Ute distracted me because there is a tribe of Native Americans here in Colorado called the Utes.
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I’m not sure if New Zealand doesn’t also call them dollies but I always call them trolleys and I suppose if I thought about it a trolley has four wheels (or at least three).
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