American media personality and socialite Kourtney Kardashian and her husband, musician Travis Barker, have angered many in the trucking community and much of middle America alike with a truck stop photo shoot that commenters found disrespectful.
“This is where my father has to sleep in the back of his semi 6 nights a week and they’re treating it like a zoo taking pictures of the trucks,” a Reddit commenter wrote. “Sorry but this makes me angry.”
In fact, basically everyone on social media site Reddit lit up the couple as disrespectfully playing at life on the road.
The series of images on Instagram shows Kardashian and Barker, both multi-millionaires, touring the aisles of a truck stop in a Pilot truck stop in Daleville, Indiana, and even trying on some high-visibility safety gear. The socialite and her husband can be seen in one image taking a shot of a lot full of tractor-trailers in a post she captioned "truck stop, huh?"
The pictures look professionally done by a photographer on the scene, and there are no other customers or truckers visible, leading many online to worry that they had security clear the Pilot before attempting what one top commenter called a "poor aesthetic" photo shoot.
The good news for owner-operators is that if you haven't been keeping up with the Kardashians, apparently the fashion now is for the Kardashians to keep up with you. While diesel fuel has gotten expensive, we couldn't have predicted it would be the new luxury item to show off on Instagram, or that truck stops would be the new Gucci. Here's hoping they don't camp out at the fuel island or take too long in the showers, or perhaps they'll just find a new hobby altogether.