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You don't fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.
Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/
It’s an Emotional Support Truck, which is hilarious based on how opposed they are to gender affirming care.
Well that truck IS their gender affirming care 😂😭
And yet they cling to it while disavowing the concept.
Unfortunately you cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into!
Who needs reason when you get to take up half of the next guys parking space! No need for thinkin’ when you look down on commercial vehicles.
But this way they can pretend it's not.
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It really is interesting how we have such large trucks and very few parking spots outside of the back nine of Wal-marts parking lot even close to big enough for them.
I think people who drive somethimg like that really do not care at all. They juat use three spots ot the disabled spot.
You could argue that those kind of people are at least mentally challenged.
You could park a Smart Fortwo in front of that honda and it would still not protrude as far out as this truck is.
Fuck these big ass trucks, should be illegal!
They should reduce the height on parking garages to exclude them.
They have a steel beam barrier at 6'2" at the entrance to my hospital parking and some broski rams into it every week.
Agreed, but that's probably an issue for fire safety. There's probably some regulation that mandates a minimum height.
And some vans designed for transporting people with wheelchairs/powerchairs could be blocked out.
I really think driving these things around should only be legal for work purposes.
The big change happened when extended cabs and later crew cabs (4-door) became common. Before that, people only got pickups when they actually needed one, because they didn't have space for passengers.
The loophole is many who own their own trades business still drive them for personal uses because they can't afford (don't want) another car.
If only the people who drove them for legitimate work purposes owned them, even as their only vehicle, it would be a huge number off the roads.
It's wild to remember this joke was from 1998, yet I can swear trucks have gotten even bigger since then. I remember most pickup trucks having a compromise between cab space and bed space. My brother's first truck had two seats in the front and two side seats squished behind it - that is, it was such a small space that the seats faced inwards from the wall and we had to fold our legs so our knees went up. It was actually pretty fun to sit back there, I had a friend who'd ask him specifically to drive us places because she loved that feature.
But nowadays it seems most pickup trucks (that I see, in the US) gave up on making that compromise, like the truck in the post image. Full cab in front like it's trying to be a family sedan, then a long-ass bed that makes the thing stick out pretty much anywhere it parks.
I'd say "pick a lane," but with the size of these things, I don't have high hopes.
I had a Chevy s-10 back from those days that could pull those large trucks out the mud. It also had a single “bitch seat” in the back (not a comment on women at all. Just If you’re in that seat.. you’re the little bitch of the group)
I don’t hate people who have trucks. You need it for work… and even large trucks maybe you need it out on the farm and it’s not your fault they keep getting bigger. You still need a truck for work and that’s just the way they come now.
If I see a CLEAN truck that large I’m pissed. That’s a vanity truck. A vanity truck that’s fucking with my sidewalk room.
I've seen an increase in these dumb trucks in my small European city. Every single one in pristine condition, so you know the pricks don't use them for work. A few stood out with expectedly dumb details. One had a license plate a la "I love USA", and another had a sticker "0800-EAT-SHIT". I'm pissed EU doesn't have the balls to ban them altogether.
I think that it's going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:
"Speeding. No one thinks big of you."
It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.
In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps "The bigger the trick, the smaller the ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.
Edit: Removed stray period.
Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.
my aunt used to seek out parking garages that either were proactive at ticketing vehicles that were sticking way out like that, or had a lowered roof at the front to prevent larger vehicles in the first place. She said she was surprised that they existed but said it made actually navigating it so much easier.
I can defo understand that, it's hard enough parking as it is, and thats without a vehicle taking up half the roadway as well.
Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.
A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer...
Seen one recently. Don't know how it is in Americas, but for the rest of the world this is unnecessarily, stupidly, obscenely big. It doesn't fit anywhere, it consumes fuel in barrels, visibility is near zero, the pickup format is extremely impractical for everyday use. This is a climate-churning, people-pressing machine that makes 0 sense.
What is even the point of these, from what i seen the truck bed does not seem that much bigger if at all then a normal pickup truck?
Cosplaying as a "real worker".
My neighbour used to park his truck sticking way out like that, but it wasn't all the way back in the spot.
I left a note on it saying: "It's not as big as you think it is, you have to put it all the way in."
From then on it was parked properly.
And these assholes usually the first to whine about how expensive gas is.
Only silver lining of gas going to is including these guys are paying even more to drive that ugly pos. Not worth everything else going up in price, though.
(I think that's f250 according to the side, but a 6.7 diesel? $7.50 is the rate for diesel around here and it's got something like 13 to 14mpg real world stats so lol.)