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  • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    6 days ago

    Hate those fucken assholes. Pavement princess driving motherfuckers.

    It literally takes less than 30 seconds to bend down, pull the cotter clip, pull the pin, and toss the hitch end in the bed. Saves the shins and kneecaps of yourself and everyone else.

    • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      6 days ago

      I had an uncle that would quite literally do that and throw the hitch(es) into the bed of the truck every single time he walked through a parking lot. If he had to do that to multiple trucks before getting to the store so be it.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      Knew someone who deliberately left it out because they thought it would help mitigate someone nudging into their backend.

      To their credit, it actually worked once, someone got a hitch sized hole in their front bumper for a low speed collision.

      On the other hand, this person also kept banging their own shin on their tow hitch… But they thought it was worth it anyway…

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          To this person’s credit, they always seemed to take backing up seriously and slowly and kept quite a distance from everyone… also very carefully parked as straight as possible, and never over any of the lines. Still since they only tow about once a week, it’s kind of silly to have that hitch in all the time.

          Unlike another colleague who doesn’t have a tow hitch, but always pushes his luck and has on occasion given a nudge to a parked car with his pickup, and never parks straight and usually parks over the middle lines…

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      6 days ago

      Because it’s literally impossible for these assholes to fit their unnecessary behemoths into a real parking spot. The same people who own these complain about parking spots being small, parking garage ceilings being too low, and gas being too expensive. They act like it’s society’s fault. Fucking chuds

      • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        I was at a family party where this guy with the largest pickup I’d ever seen constantly complained about how expensive gas was and how it was Biden’s fault. It quickly became apparent that he only drove the thing the hour drive back and forth from his office job. Truck looked like new despite being a couple years old, save for highway tire wear.

        Why on earth does he think we should all subsidize his absurd and impractical vehicle’s fuel? And I’m sure he complains about entitled people on welfare.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        It’s not, these guys just suck and they don’t have the first clue how to actually operate their vehicles. I can fit my full sized truck into spaces just fine when I have occasion to drive it. They all think they’re hot shit for having back-in parking “skills,” too, while utterly failing to comprehend that all they’ve accomplished here is making it impossible to load anything into the bed. You know, like what trucks are for.

        (Postscript: So obviously, they’re not planning on putting anything in the back. Which means they could have just as well all showed up on Vespas.)

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Yeah i was going to point this out. Its not just the hitches. All of these assholes have backed in, and deliberately gone in further than the boundary of the bay to minimise how far their nose overhangs the other end.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 days ago

    Had to take the hitch off my little convertible. That motherfucker is a TRAP! You will never see it that low, never suspect it’s there, then your shin is bleeding out.

  • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    If I’ve learned anything from decades of D&D, the answer is always “rooftop leaps and then drop from above”. 🤌🏻