He keeps asking me to help him set them up, but I don't want to create awkwardness in the friend group if she turns him down and it doesn't work out for both of them. My best friend, on the other hand, just got out of a relationship and I am not sure if she is interested in this guy at all. One of my close guy friends is really interested in one of my best friends. WALLACE: I am in the middle of an uncomfortable situation in my group of friends. I hit a few puddles pretty hard and the boys ended up almost as wet and muddy as myself. I told the two boys to sit in the open bed while the girls drove the lighter car back to the asphalt. The car belonged to one of the girls and they said they'd been on a Scooby-Doo quest to find a haunted farmhouse, well-known in the area. Heaven knows what damage they'd already caused. I unhooked the strap and the teens all climbed back into the car, but its low suspension would be no match for the bumpy track. Maximum towing capacity with a Class IV hitch is an enormous 12,200 lbs, and the 2018 model adds 1,000 lbs to even that. I pulled the car out in reverse gear if I'd used a low ratio of the 10 forward gears, you could literally load it with an elephant and there'd be no worries.
beefier than last year's six-speed model. of torque and that's more than enough to ungum a Mazda. It's an easy thing to tow with an F-150: the new 3.5-litre V-6 Ecoboost engine (a $750 option) might sound ho-hum for a truck, but it creates 470 lbs.-ft. For the first time since my son morphed into a teen, I was a hero again. All four huge truck wheels bit into the mud and the Mazda3 came out of the sticky mess like a Popsicle from its wrapper. I looped the rope somewhere around the rear frame, pulled it snug, climbed into the truck and gave it all a yank. Like any respectable pickup truck, the F-150 has a couple of tow-hooks up by the front bumper like most cheap cars, the Mazda had nothing. They seemed very clean and rested for an hour's-worth of digging and heaving. I put on my Dad overalls and started grovelling in the mud, looking for anything solid beneath it to hook onto a tow-strap. There was no way this little Mazda was driving its way out, forward or backward. "We tried digging it out with some sticks," said Tristan, and showed me the small, broken branch he was carrying. The Mazda3 was up to both axles in the mud, turtled in its centre on the path. They looked relieved to see the huge pickup truck loom into sight. Three friends – our neighbour's boy and two unknown girls – hovered nearby. The truck bounced and splashed south for a kilometre before my kid appeared over the next rise, and just beyond, a Mazda3 was sunk in the middle of the trail. The road was open to the public but it had barely more than a pair of tracks for a tractor to reach a couple of fields.
It was the trailer tow package ($950) and off-road skid plates ($750) that I thought of when I pulled onto the Wesleyville road half-an-hour later. Fancy wheels, adaptive cruise control, even a twin-panel moonroof – few of them help with getting down to business. Actually, it had lots of options that bumped the list price right up past $76,000, which is a lot of money for any vehicle, let alone a truck. The F-150 tester came in "Lariat" trim, which means it had all kinds of fancy driver-assistance technology that added $4,900 to its $57,000 base price. At last, a genuine reason to drive a pickup truck.
#Stuck in the middle of lovers and friends full
I'd driven Tristan to school that morning in an F-150 with an off-road package and we both knew that if anything looked like it could tow out a car full of 17-year-olds from a bog-hole, it was that Ford. In fact, I didn't mind at all because it would give me a chance to be a hero for the first time in years. There can be no, "I told you so," and definitely no "why would you want to drive up that road?" It'll all come out later in the wash, literally. One of the golden rules of parenting though – and especially with teenagers – is to not have that last laugh until after your kid is rescued.
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