This past July my wife and I celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary and did I get surprised!

Our Anniversary was on a Sunday and that Wednesday before I mentioned the ole Ford was gonna need to hit the shop the following Monday. She replied “Nope”. Well, after being married almost 29 years I figured I just hit her on a bad day. So that Friday she asked what I had planned for Saturday and I told her in a gruff way I was going to the plantation and I’d probably need a wrecker service to bring me home! I then TOLD her the truck was going in the shop on Monday whether she liked it or not!! In response, I got a “whatever” and “it will NOT be in the shop Monday!!”

Saturday morning she gets up and dressed pretty nice for a weekend at 0930 and said why don’t you just stay home and watch CJ, she had some errands to run! She leaves and I’m fuming!! After a few hours I try calling and it goes straight to voicemail. I look on Life360 and she’s logged off from that. I go to FindMy and she’s off of that as well. Now I’m really fuming!!!

This rocks on until about 7:45pm she calls and as I’m trying to give her a piece of my mind she just says shut your pie hole and go outside! I walk out the door and Brennan, Kayla, and Ellie Jane are there. I immediately said “Your momma ain’t home and has been gone ALL day!!” Brennan puts his arm on my shoulder and said, “It’ll be alright” I said, “your momma left the house at 0930 and just called!”

About that time I see a beautiful truck coming down our road and thought some lucky turd has that and I’ve got a 25yr old truck with 474,867 miles on it! I have to admit, I might have had a tear come up when it pulled in my driveway with my wife behind the wheel. Brennan put his hand on my shoulder again and said, “This was long overdue.” The wife gets out with a cat eating grin and throws me the keys and says “Happy Anniversary”

This fool and boys had been looking for months for a used Tacoma, but my wife was thinking she’d let it sit on the lot and the price come down. She learned they aren’t Fords and Chevrolets and “sit” on lots, lol. They had found this one in Jacksonville Florida and sent a down payment to hold it A day, lol. This joker had more bells and whistles than I knew what to do with. I had to sit in the driveway watching YouTube videos to figure all the controls out, lol.

It’s a 2022 XP 4x4 with the V6. My first Toyota (she and the boys has asked if I ever got a “new” truck what would I get and I told them I’d downgrade in size to a Tacoma)

Congrats ! You'll never own another style truck , Gotta 2008 with 411,00 miles still using it on the line everyday .

Congrats!

Toyotas aren't what they used to be, but they're still better than the other choices.

Welcome back WB.

I’ve only had one. Probably wouldn’t own anything else moving forward. Bought it new in 2011. Just hit 210k miles. Hopeful to get another 200k outta her.

The 22 with the 3.5 v6 is about as good as they'll ever be. I had almost the same truck, car seats didn't fit and we has to trade it in for mom mobile.

That was very nice of them to surprise you like that....congratulations!..now have them throw a few coins in the back seat area....it's good juju...

You got a good one there iam talking about your wife not the truck

Last 3 were Z71's... trying something different.

I have a Gen II but always partial to my Gen I.

Congrats all the way around enjoy it all.

On my fourth Toyota, over 1 million miles total.

Nice ride, congratulations on the anniversary as well.

my 2021 w/ 27 k miles:

Work truck is a 2023 taco.
2 personal trucks are 2004 small taco’s. ( I prefer the older ones)

…. I’m on my third… first running fine when I traded it in … Big Bud driving the second one

Not that I doubted the gift, but good to read the stories of present and past owners.
Anyone have a Decked system in theirs? I had a camper shell on the Ford but would rather not put one on this truck. I’m thinking the deck with a big drawer would do everything I need. Worst case is I buy some extra waterproof containers.

I didn’t have any luck with mine. I bought it new 2025 13 months ago and after one summer checking wells I had to trade it. Pretty disappointing. The dealer said I just drove in to much dust

What an awesome surprise!!!

Mac

…. I finally read the novel


…. A little sadistic how she went about it lol