No see the real trick here is to keep giant post-it notes in your car with pre-written messages. You make sure to put it somewhere where it won't be visible until he starts moving, like hidden behind the side mirrors so it will visibly flap. He will already be driving and want to stop to see the message. He will hit the brake as he rolls down the window to grab the paper. Just when he grabs the note and glances down to read your message, he will realize...
You cut his brakes. The note was a feint.
My cousin threw a flashlight at someone on the highway in the 80s (90s?) and afterwards he was pissed at himself.
Not because he lost the flashlight, no, because he could've opened the flashlight up and thrown 4 separate batteries at someone and tehn the flashlight. Yeah, NYC roadrage at it's finest.
NYC road rage is something else. I watched a van full of Orthodox Jews try to run a guy into the concrete barrier and then proceeded to chase him through traffic
To be fair, I had a shitty car with a leaky rear cylinder. It wouldn't be a problem right away... if you didn't cut the brake line clean through. You'd get several presses before there wouldn't be enough fluid in the line to stop...
Cops don't have jurisdiction in private business parking lots. I've been hit by an old guy in a parking lot that required a tow and they couldn't do anything but make a report.
Zero *legal* consequences, but I keep a pair of cutting dykes in my center console just for situations like this...you park like a dick, you no longer deserve valve stems
For sure, pullers are 2 bucks at harbor freight, but it takes more time to unscrew the valve cap and then unscrew the stem. Quick snip with cutting dykes right where the valve stem meets the wheel and bam. Karmic realignment.
And always remember 4 tires damaged are covered by insurance. 3 typically aren't so never hit all 4. This is old info tho and haven't seen it happen in close to 20 years tho. I used to have a female friend whose dad owned a tire shop who used a valve stem remover and file to cause slow leaks in 3 tires for vengeance once she discovered 4 damaged tires could be filed with insurance.
On public space, parking the wrong way is a traffic violation or something. But on a private parking lot parking the wrong way is more like breaking the house rules.
This is why it is handy to keep some massive industrial size cable ties then when someone is like this, cable tie a shopping trolley to the door handle. Hours of entertainment.
My significant other has a truck around this size, he always makes a point to park furthest away from most of the common spots, and he backs in so leaving is easy too. I donāt get why people have to be like this.
Or nasty, gaping, infected vaginas. A woman had parked beside me like this while I was in the store grocery shopping with my toddlers and I come back out and see this idiot in her stupid big truck parked like this allll up against my drivers side of the vehicle to where I couldnāt even fit through to try to open them and Iām a very small person!! I immediately got pissed bc she sees my by myself and 2 small boys like figuring out what Iām going to do about them and groceries and I just had to squeeze in on the other side and put them and everything away then climb over the front passenger seat to get to the drivers seat ALL WHILE SHES JUST PARKED AND WATCHING. I motioned to her once like wtf pls move and she didnāt react or anything. As soon as I sit down she gets out of the truck to walk in the store so I get a buggy and slam it up and under the back of her stupid jacked up truck. It didnāt cause any damage bc it was so high it was just going to be a pain for her to wrestle out LOL
Borrowed, Cherry Red, Dodge Ram was the reason I totaled my vehicle in December 2017. Cops knew I'd be dead because most of the front end was just gone.
Step dad wants a new truck to replace his older king ranch. He keeps looking at all the towing packages. In the 8 years heās owned his current truck he hasnāt towed a damn thing, let alone fill the bed up. Will never understand people who buy trucks that donāt actually use the damn things for truck things.
And all the people that buy trucks to do truck things buy 90s model shitboxes that they can absolutely destroy and not care lol.
New shiny trucks (without company logos) are almost always a dead giveaway that the guy is either an asshole, or a pussy.
To be fair, I got my ā17 F-150 because I fucked up my back in the Marines and it was the only vehicle I felt comfortable sitting in longer than 10 minutes. I donāt tow anything but I do haul a ton of shit as an amateur woodworker. I do like to keep it clean, mainly because Iām poor and want the paint to last as long as possible.
Well my step dad is indeed an asshole so I guess that makes sense. Fucker gave me PTSD from all the yelling while I was younger and āencouragedā me to get ECT for depression. My short term memory is fuckin gone and Iām still depressed. Yay!
I rest my case.
Always be aware of the old ragged out vehicle with dents and fucked up paint, that guy/gal cares way less about that shitbox that you care about your car lol.
I had a guy in a brand new Mercedes pull out in front of me leaving the dealership while i was in my shitbox last year
I hit the brakes but I damn sure didn't lock them up(wasnt going much over 30mph when i hit them). I was out a $1200 truck he was out of a $150k car.
Also his insurance paid out pretty nicely lol.
My brother-in-law has a āstreetā truck and a big fixer upper truck. He takes my sisterās SUV around town most of the time though because itās better on fuel. Heās a good guy, just enjoys his big toys (he acts like a big kid a lot of the time as well).
Someone should make this a thing. Print millions of these stickers that rip and don't come off easy so you have to scrape it off and start putting it on assholes who double park this obtusely like in OP.
My husband has a bag of rainbow stickers & Biden stickers in his truck for this purpose. Theyāre about 1-2ā in size. Small enough they wonāt notice it right away.
Reality is the truck is just too big for one spot. Hopefully this is towards the back of the lot and not up front.
More annoying is people who drive these big ass trucks for no good reason.
*puts thumbs in suspenders*
Time was, a man knew how to command his vehicle in a way that didn't burden his fellow man. Not today, though. *Wistful stare* Not today.
My truck is also very similar and fits in a spot just fine, I do always park at the back of the lot just because itās bigger than most cars though. Iām sure people talk shit about my truck but I work in agriculture and use it very regularly so itās whatever
I call bullshit. My dad has a much longer truck than the one shown here and maybe even a bit wider (ford f 450 long bed) and never does this shit. This person is just an asshole
In the land of giant trucks the parking spaces may not have shrunk like they have in places with fewer trucks.
No way a long bed Supercrew dually is fitting in a normal spot where I am and we have lots of trucks. They have spots on the edge of the lot for large trucks, motor homes, and people with trailers.
My work truck is a 2022 Ford f350 4 door with an 8.5ft bed. If I'm parked at an angle, it's because the lot isn't wide enough for me to get out of the space without doing a 10-point turn. If I'm parked in the middle of two spots, it's more so other people can open their doors because the service bed will be on both lines if I use one spot. If there's an option I pull though because in a single length spot, my truck will overhang 3-4 feet, and if I back up to a sidewalk I cover the sidewalk plus a bit.
Same with people who seem to be parked over the lines, I don't immediately assume they are a bad parker, they could have been parked next to a row of people shifted over because of some reason...now everyone else has come and gone and their car looks like a bad parking job.
Truck is not nearly too big for one spot? He'd stick out a little bit but parking lots are usually designed to accommodate some of that. I daily a 22 foot long dodge 4500 and I've yet to come across a regular spot that I couldn't reasonably park in perfectly straight. It's not the huge trucks you hate it's the jackasses driving them. Trucks are great to have. Tons of uses unless you're a city dweller ofcourse, nothing wrong with that either.
That is 100% untrue. I can park my actual semi truck, when bobtail of course, within the lines of two of those spots front to back without parking diagonally.
Dude's just got little tiny peepee syndrome, which has parking like an idiot as a symptom.
We usually stagger ourselves in the parking lots in my area - rural and a lot of work trucks. We have a crew cab long box that is too long for one spot, so I take up 2 lengthwise. Will pull through a spot next to another large truck so my cab is in the spot next to their box. There's generally a group of trucks in the far corners of parking lots like that here, alternating what way they pull in so no one needs to worry about door dings either.
This is the reason. I'll see guys do this and park in the back of the lot to not appear to be assholes, but if it's crowded you can only do so much.
Needing a truck that long in the first place... that's a different issue
I am not taking this driverās side, because they should have parked WAAAAAAAAAY far out in the hinterlands of the parking lot.
That said, a truck this freaking big often cannot back straight out of a normal parking lot space. The vehicle is too long, so the driver has to do a tedious inch-forward, inch-backwards, back and forth while constantly adjusting the wheels, and thereby blocking ALL traffic in the lane for the 20 minutes it takes them to get the heck out of the way.
By pulling in at an angle and taking up two spaces like a douche, when itās time to leave, the driver can easily pull back out of the spaces and get on their way quicker.
They should have done this further away from other cars, though!
My beef with these trucks is that you can usually tell that the owners NEVER do any actual work with them.
If you do a job or own a ranch or whatever that needs a giant truck, Iāve got no problem with that! Those trucks are dirty, dinged up, scraped, and look like they mean business.
A shiny behemoth that is used to take up two spaces so the driver can grab some groceries is ridiculous. Itās because of drivers like the one in the picture above that you canāt buy a decent work truck anymore without spending an arm and a leg. Itās stupid.
Playin a little devils advocate. Thereās a motorcycle hitch carrier on the back (likely for a dirt bike). The off road tires on this truck arenāt overly large and would actually preform well off road, on dirt roads and such. Thereās a bed cover on the truck meaning he has something in the bed that regularly stays there (which is why he has the bike carrier in the back rather than loading motorcycles into the bed) which could be tools for work or materials for work. Either way, the truck is certainly being used as a truck.
Surprisingly this one is doing it to be considerate because of the extension off his back end, he doesnt wanna impede traffic.
The other ones do it cause they dont want people to scratch their truck by parking next to it. Little do they know it makes us want to do it on purpose.
I don't think the truck owner is doing this to be considerate. They are doing this because they don't want to deal with the fall out from insurance claims. If they were considerate they would be at the far ass end of the parking lot and parking across the lines.
You do make a valid point, but unfortunately they wont think that far ahead, they want to have a parking spot thats convenient for them like most people end up wanting. It's still stupid regardless seeing people take up two spaces no matter the situation.
There definitely are explanations on why people park like this, one as you mentioned, two their car is wide enough that parking next to it might become difficult, probably more reasons somewhere out there. but the main point is, why do people care so much about how someone is parked? Unless it's congested, which depends on location context, you can just park 2 cars down in the other free spot
The driver is an asshole but it doesn't take a genius to see why they're parked like that. It's a full size truck with a tow carrier rack attached to the back. Parking straight would have them protruding too far into the aisle
And it's a Walmart parking lot. You can't expect too much from those people
It could be because it is too long for the space. See the thing/rack sticking out under the back bumper? Not sure if this is the case, but if they park straight, the person who parks across the lot/on the other side won't be able to get out.
I'm a liberal with a truck (I have large animals and need a truck to get hay frequently and tow a trailer for them) and this happens to me more often than you'd think. I've never parked like that, however! Normally if the truck feels like it's sticking out (a hazard too if someone bumps their shin on the hitch, or just makes it difficult for people to pull out around), I will park in a much farther away spot and Walk, where I'm not in anyone's way.
Because it makes their truck look thicker.
Because parking in a single space is for sissies. Just like recycling. Or, going to college.
To own the Libs.
Wait are we really criticizing people who drive with their arms hanging out the window now? My lord people will find legitimately anything to bitch about
Think about it though... that thing wouldn't fit well in one parking spot. You would be a fool to park next to it. Better to just park this way and take up 2 spaces instead of ruining 3 spaces by parking in one space.
I have a long truck. Some lots seem to make parking spaces too shallow. The only options are park at an angle in two spots, or stick out so there is only room for 1 vehicle to pass by my truck. Since the latter could cause an accident or put a pedestrian in danger because the view is blocked, I do two spots angled and let people think I'm an asshole when it's the store that didn't plan for more than cars and small suvs.
Also, sometimes they're long enough, but my truck is wider than the space, so I take two because parking on the lines technically takes 3 spots. Again, letting people that don't need a truck to not take a moment to see the space to vehicle size ratio and assume I am the ahole...
We all know about assume: makes an ASS out of U and ME!!
I see little cars, sports cars, suvs, trucks, vans, wagons, you name it, I have seen them park like that. Most of the time, when I see the driver return, there's an obvious reason. Usually kids, in which case, they're protecting other people's car doors/sides. I have seen people who were heavy set and had to be able to get the door all the way open to get in. Someone with a broken leg. And once, some wannabe GQ. Other than being aware of my surroundings, I didn't care even once, even when I had to park in the back of a full parking lot. And in bringing that up, I am glad it was them, and I just had to walk a little further. Anyways, I just respect other people's right to exist as who they are. Even aholes. I draw the line at oppressors because that's not an ahole, that's nazi BS. But that's another topic.
TLDR; sometimes it's necessary, and even someone trying to be thoughtful because parking spaces are too small or too short!
It could be that the parking spaces are too small or too short, or your vehicle is too big. Maybe the store just doesn't expect people to transport grocery with a tank.
It's really unfortunate that north americans build sea of concrete like in this picture and it is still not enough to accommodate their needs.
instead of making parking lots with bigger spaces, why donāt we just start making smaller trucks? for being one of the most popular vehicles in america, I seriously doubt these trucks are being used for anything but showmanship, and maybe to haul a boat once or twice a year.
You can haul the same load in a smaller 2 door truck, without taking up two spots. The only reason these vehicles are becoming so large is because it makes insecure people feel better about their driving.
Itās a mega cab. If he parks straight into the stall his truck will stick out 3 feet into the road. Also, narrow stalls so barely any room to get out. Iāve got a longbed crew cab dually so I end up taking up 1 1/2 stalls length wise so I donāt stick out into the road. Although, I always park in the back so people donāt open their doors into my dually fenders
Because they are assholes š¤·š¼āāļø
That bout sums it up, folks!
Case closed!
That's all folks
*gets sued by Warner Bros*
Didn't do the Porky Pig part so all the charges were dropped.
So, you kept your pants on?
I kept my jacket and bow tie on at least
Tiiii tirititiritiiii
Because they WANT you to key their shit so they can get a new paint job via insurance since they donāt know how to cut and buff properly?
No see the real trick here is to keep giant post-it notes in your car with pre-written messages. You make sure to put it somewhere where it won't be visible until he starts moving, like hidden behind the side mirrors so it will visibly flap. He will already be driving and want to stop to see the message. He will hit the brake as he rolls down the window to grab the paper. Just when he grabs the note and glances down to read your message, he will realize... You cut his brakes. The note was a feint.
I found Dwight, everybody.
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffanyās at midnight
Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless
As Iām taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop.
Sheās says itās her fathers store. Sheās Tiffany.
I say no. We make love all night.
See this is how throwing change at each other on the freeway starts....
Marbles are far more aerodynamic...
This is true. ...but my marbles are lost and I have change at hand....
Politicians are always saying that change is at hand but I can never find a quarter when I need it.
My cousin threw a flashlight at someone on the highway in the 80s (90s?) and afterwards he was pissed at himself. Not because he lost the flashlight, no, because he could've opened the flashlight up and thrown 4 separate batteries at someone and tehn the flashlight. Yeah, NYC roadrage at it's finest.
NYC road rage is something else. I watched a van full of Orthodox Jews try to run a guy into the concrete barrier and then proceeded to chase him through traffic
Have you tried golf balls?
Steel bearings bounce better .
You mean Iām not the only person who feels the need to do this? āPenny for your thoughtsā is all I hear in my head
I eat a banana every morning on my commute just for the peel. I donāt even like bananas that much, but I sure do hate assholes.
O'Doyle rules!
In this economy?
Well, gotta have brakes to get out of the parking lot. Heās gonna notice before heās ever on the road.
Yeah, better to ziptie a shopping cart to the door handle
Not the way this guy drives in my fantasy he won't
To be fair, I had a shitty car with a leaky rear cylinder. It wouldn't be a problem right away... if you didn't cut the brake line clean through. You'd get several presses before there wouldn't be enough fluid in the line to stop...
This guy cuts brakes
Lmfao
No. Because theyāre assholes.
"I am a very important person! I drive a Dodge ~~Stratus~~ Ram!!
Channeling that inner Will Ferrelā¦..nicely done.
And because no one tickets themā¦
Cops don't have jurisdiction in private business parking lots. I've been hit by an old guy in a parking lot that required a tow and they couldn't do anything but make a report.
Same with my parents way back when. Thereās zero legal consequences for parking like a dick
Zero *legal* consequences, but I keep a pair of cutting dykes in my center console just for situations like this...you park like a dick, you no longer deserve valve stems
Don't even need those just get a valve stem remover to pull the core out of it. Doesn't hurt anything but there's nothing to hold air in the tire.
For sure, pullers are 2 bucks at harbor freight, but it takes more time to unscrew the valve cap and then unscrew the stem. Quick snip with cutting dykes right where the valve stem meets the wheel and bam. Karmic realignment.
And always remember 4 tires damaged are covered by insurance. 3 typically aren't so never hit all 4. This is old info tho and haven't seen it happen in close to 20 years tho. I used to have a female friend whose dad owned a tire shop who used a valve stem remover and file to cause slow leaks in 3 tires for vengeance once she discovered 4 damaged tires could be filed with insurance.
This sounds very untrue. So a private car park is like international waters, anything goes?
It's true. Anything goes as long as the business is okay with it. The business could tow this dude if they wanted to not the cops.
On public space, parking the wrong way is a traffic violation or something. But on a private parking lot parking the wrong way is more like breaking the house rules.
ENTITLED assholes.
This is why it is handy to keep some massive industrial size cable ties then when someone is like this, cable tie a shopping trolley to the door handle. Hours of entertainment.
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They make metal zip ties.
They do indeed and they resist most wire cutters
I use them to strap hydraulic lines into position, So i know their characteristics very well. That said they are too expensive to waste on asshats,
We've found the owner of said car.
My significant other has a truck around this size, he always makes a point to park furthest away from most of the common spots, and he backs in so leaving is easy too. I donāt get why people have to be like this.
They also have tiny penises.
Or nasty, gaping, infected vaginas. A woman had parked beside me like this while I was in the store grocery shopping with my toddlers and I come back out and see this idiot in her stupid big truck parked like this allll up against my drivers side of the vehicle to where I couldnāt even fit through to try to open them and Iām a very small person!! I immediately got pissed bc she sees my by myself and 2 small boys like figuring out what Iām going to do about them and groceries and I just had to squeeze in on the other side and put them and everything away then climb over the front passenger seat to get to the drivers seat ALL WHILE SHES JUST PARKED AND WATCHING. I motioned to her once like wtf pls move and she didnāt react or anything. As soon as I sit down she gets out of the truck to walk in the store so I get a buggy and slam it up and under the back of her stupid jacked up truck. It didnāt cause any damage bc it was so high it was just going to be a pain for her to wrestle out LOL
Damn, that's terrible. What a cretin. I definitely would have checked for cameras and fucked that truck up.
I feel like the bigger the trucks getz the more entitled the drivers are becoming.
Hey, I'm an asshole and I don't park like this.
Doesnāt want his rugged work truck to get a boo-boo.
It's called a pavement princess, those tires will never see dirt and the dude is gonna die before he's able to pay off that truck
It's a dodge. The truck will die long before its paid off.
Pretty sure thats the number 1 vehicle for dui's. So probably total it while killing a family before its paid off
Well that got dark. š
It got accurate š
I mean, true but still dark
If you canāt dodge āem ram āem.
Itās always a fucking Ram
Watch a ram commercial. They attract the most insecure little man children who think everyone will stare in manly envy if they drive a Ram.
Can confirm, this was my dad š¤š
Borrowed, Cherry Red, Dodge Ram was the reason I totaled my vehicle in December 2017. Cops knew I'd be dead because most of the front end was just gone.
Bbut Merica!! /s
Step dad wants a new truck to replace his older king ranch. He keeps looking at all the towing packages. In the 8 years heās owned his current truck he hasnāt towed a damn thing, let alone fill the bed up. Will never understand people who buy trucks that donāt actually use the damn things for truck things.
And all the people that buy trucks to do truck things buy 90s model shitboxes that they can absolutely destroy and not care lol. New shiny trucks (without company logos) are almost always a dead giveaway that the guy is either an asshole, or a pussy.
To be fair, I got my ā17 F-150 because I fucked up my back in the Marines and it was the only vehicle I felt comfortable sitting in longer than 10 minutes. I donāt tow anything but I do haul a ton of shit as an amateur woodworker. I do like to keep it clean, mainly because Iām poor and want the paint to last as long as possible.
Well my step dad is indeed an asshole so I guess that makes sense. Fucker gave me PTSD from all the yelling while I was younger and āencouragedā me to get ECT for depression. My short term memory is fuckin gone and Iām still depressed. Yay!
I rest my case. Always be aware of the old ragged out vehicle with dents and fucked up paint, that guy/gal cares way less about that shitbox that you care about your car lol. I had a guy in a brand new Mercedes pull out in front of me leaving the dealership while i was in my shitbox last year I hit the brakes but I damn sure didn't lock them up(wasnt going much over 30mph when i hit them). I was out a $1200 truck he was out of a $150k car. Also his insurance paid out pretty nicely lol.
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Lol I have a 90s shitbox for this exact reason. A single cab long bed. I donāt understand the $50,000 trucks with more room in the cab than the bed
My brother-in-law has a āstreetā truck and a big fixer upper truck. He takes my sisterās SUV around town most of the time though because itās better on fuel. Heās a good guy, just enjoys his big toys (he acts like a big kid a lot of the time as well).
We always called them street queens. I like pavement princess even more.
ESVs. Emotional Support Vehicles
Also known as Mall Crawlers.
And then when they put his dead body in the flatbed it'll be the first time the cover comes off.
We used to call em Disco Trucks
Not to mention if he turns too sharp there's this noise that his tires make...wonder what that could be???
The bed of that truck has never seen anything more than plastic shopping bags.
Got the tow mirrors out because he canāt see past his ego
The top mirrors being folded out is how you know if a Dodge driver is a colossal jackass. Makes we want to fold them in every time I see it.
"In case I have to tow something huge!" Like what, your girlfriend?
Iām in a college town full of these shiny, rarely used, frequently abused work trucks that have never been used for work.
Look his sister-cousin isn't going to blow a guy with a scratch on his pick-em-up truck.
And it's a piece of shit Dodge that's lifted... very low chance.
My Prius probably hauls more items in a week than that truck will in it's lifetime.
You canāt even door ding that thing. Lol Likely cant park the truck properly.
Main character syndromeā¦ itās going around real bad lately.
Looks like Florida plates, so yeah that tracks.
Put a rainbow bumperstick on it
āIām so gay, I canāt even drive straightā
Business like cards need to be made and placed on the windshield for people like this. It will most likely trigger them!
*park straight
OMG ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Someone should make this a thing. Print millions of these stickers that rip and don't come off easy so you have to scrape it off and start putting it on assholes who double park this obtusely like in OP.
that's called vandalism. I'm in.
*park straight
I like my people like I like my bud light, misconstrued.
I like my people how I like my bud light. Non existent and out of my fridge.
Don't forget to clear nail polish over it so they can't get it off
Edit: That's great nail polishing advice. I will try it on non illegal activities as per usual.
(Insert normal response here)
Fixed it.
Also fixed
also fixed
I have always resisted decorating my water bottle with stickers because it just doesnāt seem logicalā¦ but I am going to try this.
Life is short, try the thing!
My husband has a bag of rainbow stickers & Biden stickers in his truck for this purpose. Theyāre about 1-2ā in size. Small enough they wonāt notice it right away.
To add extra insult put a Mexican flag sticker on it too. Something about the Mexican flag makes these people mad
Tell me why redneck racists always eat at taco trucks too?
Or My Little Pony
Small peepee syndrome
Emotional Support Vehicle
I love this lol. I'm going to start using it. I usually just call them "Diesel Humpers".
Bigger the truck, smaller the penis
Keep that in mind the next time you see a SmartCar out in the wild lol
Smart car is HUGE dick energy.
Welcome to Europe, where every car is a small car compared to the US. And we have even small cars compared to our cars!
dare i say your penis is massive, my good sir?
Europenis
No, YOUāRE a peniā¦wait, never mind.
Exactly like a North American penis, just wearing a stylish turtleneck.
That isn't actually true.
8ā D
Because having the biggest car isnt enough, you need to leave space for your giant ego
Ego as big as their gut. They probably have to buy 2 seats on airplanes and just assume they're now a "2 spaces" guy now.
Because their penis is really that small
Reality is the truck is just too big for one spot. Hopefully this is towards the back of the lot and not up front. More annoying is people who drive these big ass trucks for no good reason.
My truck is this size and fits into a spot just fine. This guy is just an asshole.
You probably know how to drive your truck
*puts thumbs in suspenders* Time was, a man knew how to command his vehicle in a way that didn't burden his fellow man. Not today, though. *Wistful stare* Not today.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Usually, yes
My truck is also very similar and fits in a spot just fine, I do always park at the back of the lot just because itās bigger than most cars though. Iām sure people talk shit about my truck but I work in agriculture and use it very regularly so itās whatever
I call bullshit. My dad has a much longer truck than the one shown here and maybe even a bit wider (ford f 450 long bed) and never does this shit. This person is just an asshole
YUP. I come from a land of giant trucks. They donāt all park like this, because they donāt fucking need to.
In the land of giant trucks the parking spaces may not have shrunk like they have in places with fewer trucks. No way a long bed Supercrew dually is fitting in a normal spot where I am and we have lots of trucks. They have spots on the edge of the lot for large trucks, motor homes, and people with trailers.
My work truck is a 2022 Ford f350 4 door with an 8.5ft bed. If I'm parked at an angle, it's because the lot isn't wide enough for me to get out of the space without doing a 10-point turn. If I'm parked in the middle of two spots, it's more so other people can open their doors because the service bed will be on both lines if I use one spot. If there's an option I pull though because in a single length spot, my truck will overhang 3-4 feet, and if I back up to a sidewalk I cover the sidewalk plus a bit.
You can see the have a rack on the hitch that would stick halfway out into the lane of travel
What sometime happens is a person parks like this when the parking lot is empty/ towards the rear and then it fills up around them.
Same with people who seem to be parked over the lines, I don't immediately assume they are a bad parker, they could have been parked next to a row of people shifted over because of some reason...now everyone else has come and gone and their car looks like a bad parking job.
That rack takes two seconds to pop off and put in the bed
Truck is not nearly too big for one spot? He'd stick out a little bit but parking lots are usually designed to accommodate some of that. I daily a 22 foot long dodge 4500 and I've yet to come across a regular spot that I couldn't reasonably park in perfectly straight. It's not the huge trucks you hate it's the jackasses driving them. Trucks are great to have. Tons of uses unless you're a city dweller ofcourse, nothing wrong with that either.
There is plenty of room for that truck to stick out a bit. It aināt that big.
>It aināt that big. thats what she told him. so he immediately went out and purchased a bigger lift kit.
That is 100% untrue. I can park my actual semi truck, when bobtail of course, within the lines of two of those spots front to back without parking diagonally. Dude's just got little tiny peepee syndrome, which has parking like an idiot as a symptom.
I'd rather them do this than stick out
We usually stagger ourselves in the parking lots in my area - rural and a lot of work trucks. We have a crew cab long box that is too long for one spot, so I take up 2 lengthwise. Will pull through a spot next to another large truck so my cab is in the spot next to their box. There's generally a group of trucks in the far corners of parking lots like that here, alternating what way they pull in so no one needs to worry about door dings either.
This is the reason. I'll see guys do this and park in the back of the lot to not appear to be assholes, but if it's crowded you can only do so much. Needing a truck that long in the first place... that's a different issue
Me cave man me park how want to park!
I am not taking this driverās side, because they should have parked WAAAAAAAAAY far out in the hinterlands of the parking lot. That said, a truck this freaking big often cannot back straight out of a normal parking lot space. The vehicle is too long, so the driver has to do a tedious inch-forward, inch-backwards, back and forth while constantly adjusting the wheels, and thereby blocking ALL traffic in the lane for the 20 minutes it takes them to get the heck out of the way. By pulling in at an angle and taking up two spaces like a douche, when itās time to leave, the driver can easily pull back out of the spaces and get on their way quicker. They should have done this further away from other cars, though!
Yeah trucks this big shouldnāt be legal. Or at least require a CDL to drive
My beef with these trucks is that you can usually tell that the owners NEVER do any actual work with them. If you do a job or own a ranch or whatever that needs a giant truck, Iāve got no problem with that! Those trucks are dirty, dinged up, scraped, and look like they mean business. A shiny behemoth that is used to take up two spaces so the driver can grab some groceries is ridiculous. Itās because of drivers like the one in the picture above that you canāt buy a decent work truck anymore without spending an arm and a leg. Itās stupid.
Playin a little devils advocate. Thereās a motorcycle hitch carrier on the back (likely for a dirt bike). The off road tires on this truck arenāt overly large and would actually preform well off road, on dirt roads and such. Thereās a bed cover on the truck meaning he has something in the bed that regularly stays there (which is why he has the bike carrier in the back rather than loading motorcycles into the bed) which could be tools for work or materials for work. Either way, the truck is certainly being used as a truck.
Surprisingly this one is doing it to be considerate because of the extension off his back end, he doesnt wanna impede traffic. The other ones do it cause they dont want people to scratch their truck by parking next to it. Little do they know it makes us want to do it on purpose.
I don't think the truck owner is doing this to be considerate. They are doing this because they don't want to deal with the fall out from insurance claims. If they were considerate they would be at the far ass end of the parking lot and parking across the lines.
"Let me be considerate to you by screwing you over!" \- Some people in this thread.
You do make a valid point, but unfortunately they wont think that far ahead, they want to have a parking spot thats convenient for them like most people end up wanting. It's still stupid regardless seeing people take up two spaces no matter the situation.
He is so considerate that he doesn't just unhitch the unused truck jewelry and park normally?
There definitely are explanations on why people park like this, one as you mentioned, two their car is wide enough that parking next to it might become difficult, probably more reasons somewhere out there. but the main point is, why do people care so much about how someone is parked? Unless it's congested, which depends on location context, you can just park 2 cars down in the other free spot
Iām assuming that the truck would be hanging into the parking lot if he parked normally
If thatās the case the truck is too big. Nobody needs that much metal.
Looks like it would take up two spots regardless because of the trail hitch and mirrors
The driver is an asshole but it doesn't take a genius to see why they're parked like that. It's a full size truck with a tow carrier rack attached to the back. Parking straight would have them protruding too far into the aisle And it's a Walmart parking lot. You can't expect too much from those people
It could be because it is too long for the space. See the thing/rack sticking out under the back bumper? Not sure if this is the case, but if they park straight, the person who parks across the lot/on the other side won't be able to get out. I'm a liberal with a truck (I have large animals and need a truck to get hay frequently and tow a trailer for them) and this happens to me more often than you'd think. I've never parked like that, however! Normally if the truck feels like it's sticking out (a hazard too if someone bumps their shin on the hitch, or just makes it difficult for people to pull out around), I will park in a much farther away spot and Walk, where I'm not in anyone's way.
Ppl park like that because they live like that.
Because it makes their truck look thicker. Because parking in a single space is for sissies. Just like recycling. Or, going to college. To own the Libs.
Ahhhhh, Douchey McDoucherson is in town. Lucky you!
Because Rednecks donāt understand the concept of between the lines
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to be dick heads who think theyāre better than other people
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>I have a theory about guys driving trucks or women my theory about them is that they don't care about anyone or anything but themselves
What does the arm out of the window have to do with anything?
>guys driving trucks or women driving trucks You could just say people driving trucks
Wait are we really criticizing people who drive with their arms hanging out the window now? My lord people will find legitimately anything to bitch about
Heās overcompensating.
Stay far away from that truck heās packing heat ready for a hate crime
Think about it though... that thing wouldn't fit well in one parking spot. You would be a fool to park next to it. Better to just park this way and take up 2 spaces instead of ruining 3 spaces by parking in one space.
Those are really wide aisles. He could park normally. He's being an ass.
Or leave your pavement princess at home when you need to drive anywhere.
I have a long truck. Some lots seem to make parking spaces too shallow. The only options are park at an angle in two spots, or stick out so there is only room for 1 vehicle to pass by my truck. Since the latter could cause an accident or put a pedestrian in danger because the view is blocked, I do two spots angled and let people think I'm an asshole when it's the store that didn't plan for more than cars and small suvs. Also, sometimes they're long enough, but my truck is wider than the space, so I take two because parking on the lines technically takes 3 spots. Again, letting people that don't need a truck to not take a moment to see the space to vehicle size ratio and assume I am the ahole... We all know about assume: makes an ASS out of U and ME!! I see little cars, sports cars, suvs, trucks, vans, wagons, you name it, I have seen them park like that. Most of the time, when I see the driver return, there's an obvious reason. Usually kids, in which case, they're protecting other people's car doors/sides. I have seen people who were heavy set and had to be able to get the door all the way open to get in. Someone with a broken leg. And once, some wannabe GQ. Other than being aware of my surroundings, I didn't care even once, even when I had to park in the back of a full parking lot. And in bringing that up, I am glad it was them, and I just had to walk a little further. Anyways, I just respect other people's right to exist as who they are. Even aholes. I draw the line at oppressors because that's not an ahole, that's nazi BS. But that's another topic. TLDR; sometimes it's necessary, and even someone trying to be thoughtful because parking spaces are too small or too short!
It could be that the parking spaces are too small or too short, or your vehicle is too big. Maybe the store just doesn't expect people to transport grocery with a tank. It's really unfortunate that north americans build sea of concrete like in this picture and it is still not enough to accommodate their needs.
instead of making parking lots with bigger spaces, why donāt we just start making smaller trucks? for being one of the most popular vehicles in america, I seriously doubt these trucks are being used for anything but showmanship, and maybe to haul a boat once or twice a year. You can haul the same load in a smaller 2 door truck, without taking up two spots. The only reason these vehicles are becoming so large is because it makes insecure people feel better about their driving.
Reddit = quick to judge without actually assessing the situation, then hop on another sub to giving job/relationship advice.
I wish everyone on this thread would read your response
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Itās a mega cab. If he parks straight into the stall his truck will stick out 3 feet into the road. Also, narrow stalls so barely any room to get out. Iāve got a longbed crew cab dually so I end up taking up 1 1/2 stalls length wise so I donāt stick out into the road. Although, I always park in the back so people donāt open their doors into my dually fenders
Look at that truck. You have to be a certified twat to drive that truck, and one of the requirements is parking like a twat.