I actually know one guy--I swear I didn't invent this although I know it sounds like it--in Austin (of course) who decided not to get one because his Brazilian jujitsu instructor (of course) had one & said that at stoplights everyone was rolling down their windows to give him thumbs down gestures
In videos I've seen driving one basically makes you a microcelebrity but in the worst way, with people either being delighted and wanting pictures or constan giving hate through yelling and gestures, so yeah...it seems like a lot and most of it would feel awkward and embarrassing
I keep saying I believe an engineer went home and asked his toddler to draw a new truck design, then took the drawing to the office the next day and said, “Here’s what we are going to build.” No one has proven me wrong yet!
Best part is, if they do what Elon says it can do, they void the warranty. The warranty explicitly states that off roading, one of the things Elon insists it's made for, voids the warranty. So does driving over potholes. No I am not kidding.
Well, one should have today. In a small town near where I live, I saw a cybertruck loaded with drywall and other materials pulling into a liquor store. I would've followed it to see what happened next, but it seemed to be a dangerous idea.
I don't know if someone who has a cybertruck is capable of embarrassment in the way humans are... but I see two consistently and fuck with them constantly.
And almost all of those moments make it in the newspaper because they're stuff like "cybertruck's entire left side falls off" and "cybertruck-based forever fire still burning for tenth week straight".
Isn’t not having the capacity for embarrassment a necessary precondition for owning cybertruck? That - or as I’ve been discovering each new day for the last decade - there are a lot of people who are wandering around in a completely different reality than I think I am..
Incredible to me that people continue to pay that obscene amount of money for the thing. It's so obviously a slapdash pile of garbage that the Edsel is starting to look good.
Hell, I'd drive an Aztek over one of those things.
A local owner went from displaying it at the front of his property to hiding it behind other cars, then behind his giant camper, now I think he's either gotten rid of it or put it in the barn 😂
The first time I encounter one in a parking lot, I am going to seriously regret that I still haven't printed up any "donate your old junker to charity" postcards to stick on their window.
There was a very, very, very good reason the cybertruck reveal went the way it did.
Lights on, and the cheering went beyond silent. Not a single clap for the rest of the event. Anyone who drives one of those should be mocked for their purchase.
I saw one yesterday with dealer plates, like what kink is that guy displaying? I said to my husband I can’t imagine reading about what trash they are and hearing how much the drivers of the cyber truck gets laughed at and then being like, yeah, I want one. Such small dick energy.
There’s one around here with a young, like teenaged kid behind the wheel, looks sooo stupid. I’m frequently at an intersection with him and I laugh and point, shaking my head. There is never anyone sitting in the passenger seat-I can only imagine why.
Even raccoons think they look like dumpsters! There are videos of the little guys trying hard to pry the thing open so they can get at the tasty garbage they just KNOW is inside there.
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Fervid as a flame,
Does it have a name?
Yes!
Loathing.
Unadulterated loathing.
Same as any Republican capable of being shamed is no longer a Republican.
Hell, I'd drive an Aztek over one of those things.
Lights on, and the cheering went beyond silent. Not a single clap for the rest of the event. Anyone who drives one of those should be mocked for their purchase.
(Also he can afford a cybertruck but not to leave a tip on his $5 coffee?)
Don't be surprised if it breaks down and they come crying back.
Sort of like when someone builds their first truck camper out of plywood & paints it gray.
*rubbing hands vigorously together while thinking of ideas