I will never become truly American, I’m afraid. I’ve been living on this continent since 1998, and yet, there are realities that I am completely unaware of. Blogger P. rhoeas acquainted me with the phenomenon of truck nutz today.
Here is what they look like:
I don’t know what it says about me, but I’m totally into the pink ones. And to the professor who ridiculed me when I said, “In American roadtrip literature a car symbolizes a penis,” what can you say now?
From the following comment on Amazon, I discovered that the truck nutz are supposed to bring good luck:
These balls are a bit large when hung from the rearview mirror of my Prius. They obstruct vision a bit when they swing back and forth. Otherwise they work great. I’ve had quite a bit of luck since I swapped out the ole lucky rabbits foot.
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I was showing a visitor from Spain around my city when we wound up following a truck with those hanging on the back. He did a double take and said, “Is that…what I think it is?” and after I nodded, he started to laugh and we both laughed until we couldn’t laugh anymore because our sides hurt too much.
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How come I never noticed them? Or are they constricted to certain geographic areas? 🙂
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At the risk of stereotyping I would say they are most popular with people who think that having balls makes you a special cool dude. Around my neck of the woods, this is usually men in big trucks with deer hunting and right-wing bumper stickers plastered all over.
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I am an American and have never noticed those before. And I hail from the South. Perhaps I am no real American? 😉
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It really helps to know this. 🙂
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I had never seen nor heard of them until a couple of years ago when I moved from Michigan to Indiana for grad school–at which time I was visually assaulted with several of them. Our acquaintances from Seattle were totally familiar with them, though, when I mentioned the whole “why are people putting prosthetic balls on their vehicles” thing. Haven’t seen any since I moved back, so it’s gotta be geographic as well as insert-stereotype-here. Deer hunting and crap like that is really popular in MI, but still no truck-nut sightings…
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