Two months ago, we mocked Ashton Kutcher for buying a behemoth, 10-mile-per-gallon (on a good day) International CXT, or commercial extreme truck.

Now, Kutcher’s mocking himself. “My semi? It’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever purchased,” he’s quoted as saying in, ahem, In Touch Weekly. (I was flipping through it in line at the co-op, OK?)

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ContactMusic.com reports that he may auction the beast off.

“It’s a weird boy’s dream,” he said by way of explaining his stupidity. “Growing up in Iowa, all these kids in my school who had money would go out and buy these Toyota pickup trucks and put these huge wheels on them, and I would go, ‘Oh man, I’ve got to have one of those.’

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“So when I saw this truck in the newspaper, I knew I had to have it … Then I got it, and I was like, ‘Son of a bitch, I should have looked at it first.’ I didn’t realize it was that big.”