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What an asshole.
For buying the stupid vehicle in the first place.
He realy is
That’s right. You’re an “___HOLE” for buying a fucking 22 foot long truck and then trying to use it as a car.
I mean, the meme says at an IKEA parking lot. If ever there were a completely valid time to use that truck and park it in a lot, that’s it.
I once fit an IKEA mattress, bed frame, and slats in the back of my hatchback, with enough room leftover to make a grocery run.
I’ve done that too back when I lived in the city, with the bed boxes all the way up into the front of the car, interfering with my stick shift if I hit a bump or slammed on the brakes, and just generally being unsafe. My point isn’t that it’s impossible to buy things at IKEA without a giant truck, my point is if you own a giant truck, for work or because you DIY constantly or own a boat or RV…this is literally the exact situation it’s built for. You CAN handle the situation other ways, but why would you if you already own a truck?
I hate giant fuck off oversized trucks as much as the next guy, and if this was sitting in someone’s driveway as their only car, with nothing to haul, a clean bed, and you only see them take it to the grocery store… Then yeah let’s all shit on them together. But everyone is so carried away with hate they’re dunking on a guy doing one of the best use cases for this truck and actually being polite about it!
Yeah I was mostly just poking a bit of fun lol. I don’t really agree with the sentiment that transporting flatpack furniture is the exact scenario for a 22 ft. long vehicle though. Like, IKEA furniture is explicitly designed to be light, compact, and easy to transport so that you don’t need a large vehicle to haul it. That being said, bringing your giant pickup truck to transport IKEA furniture is certainly a better use for it than a daily single-passenger commute.
I too have filled a hatch back with Ikea stuff and panicked the whole time thinking it wouldn’t all fit and I’d have to return something. If I had a truck I would’ve brought it.
And that’s the most anyone could ever need to haul at once from Ikea I guess?
Why at once?
Why not? That’s the reason you get a 22 foot truck, because you need to haul a lot of things at once. Maybe you are furnishing your entire house, maybe one of 45000 other possible legitimate reasons to haul a lot of things. I don’t own a truck, and I usually assume anyone driving one of these huge ones is a maga these days because around here that’s what they mostly are.
But it’s a little nuts how many people think that because they’ve never had the need to haul more things than will fit in a sedan or small hatchback or shortbed pickup, no one else does either.
Choosing to buy an impractical vehicle does not give one a pass to park incorrectly
Technically, parking with a part sticking out is still parking incorrectly.
Taking up two spots, while still incorrect, is still safer for all involved and won’t potentially block traffic. I’m speaking as someone who has nearly hit a truck that was sticking out while turning into a parking lot (I wasn’t able to see the truck prior to turning) on at least a couple of occasions.
Safety > Convenience
Better idea: Don’t buy a truck that’s too big to use safely…
He’s parked at an IKEA. I’m willing to bet he’s a contractor that needs that long of a truck to fit everything he buys (including stuff from Home Depot or Lowe’s).
Contractors didn’t exist before trucks became stupid huge? I didn’t know that…
Do you think the first long truck sprang into existence in 2008? We’ve had super long trucks for specific use cases as long as we’ve had trucks. This is like one of the few times a person has a good reason to have a large vehicle, and is being safe and polite about it by staying out of the way and writing a polite note to explain. Large vehicles aren’t the problem, people owning large vehicles who don’t need them are the problem.
Contractors did exist. Innovation usually happens because enough people have a want or need for something for some reason. It’s entirely possible (or even likely) that long trucks came into existence because contractors had a need for them. Ford and other truck companies saw an opportunity to make money from that need and obliged.
Idk man, these parking spots get tighter all the time. And making a poor decision to purchase a vehicle on the market should not invalidate a buyers frustrations. Compatibility between car manufacturers and parking spots are getting worse. Also, some people are overloaded and they take up two spots at the back of the lot. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Hauling a trailer but needed to stop by for some groceries before your camping trip in a lot that doesn’t have trailer parking, that person should have the freedom to go take two spots at the back.
If you can’t fit a parking spot, you wasted money on too big of a vehicle.
Saw this at my local grocery store. Does this upset you?
Do you have a source for your claim that parking spots are getting smaller? I’ve personally seen the exact opposite.
I never said they’re getting smaller. I said tighter as in it’s tighter to park in them because cars are getting bigger. And I’m not talking your F350 extended bed and cab super truck. You can just look up any articles. Appyparking did a study on it. American parking spots with the double lines are few outside of Costco.
https://appyway.com/blog/press/parking-is-the-most-stressful-part-of-driving/
Not sure why I’m getting down voted here. The people here get upset over the silliest things. Parking sucks. People are stressed. Stop yelling at someone for buying a car too big for parking. Not everyone is driving a prius, and everyone has a right to buy a vehicle on the market and expect for it to comply with all standards, including parking.
Well, “compact” parking spots are about a foot narrower and developers see a way to claim more parking spots for the same area… To the extent they can get away with it I think they do it more.
Anybody parking an oversized vehicle in a compact spot is definitely a jerk. Those are exclusively for compact cars, no ifs ands or buts.
Even my company work van is only like… 15ft long… and it can fit basically anything I’d ever need to use for construction related needs.
I’m sure that’s correct, as to the best of my knowledge you don’t need mattresses or couches in construction.
Yeah, and we don’t use mattresses or couches in Europe either because we can’t fit them in our cars.
considering the “bed” is just over 10ft long and about 6ft tall, I could fit most mattresses, as well as most normally sized couches in the back too. A single king sized foundation would need to be angled though.
But will it compensate for having a tiny dick?
If it does, can someone tell me where I can buy one?
Edit: asking for a friend. Obv.
My work van is about 1 & 1/4 parking spots long. We got a smaller van recently and it really is more difficult to fit everything for a big job. Luckily we work rurally mostly so parking is not an issue. Some industries really do need larger work vehicles.
For reference on our bigger jobs. We carry 300-500 foot rolls of piping. Once prepered for a job the roll has a diameter of 6-8 feet. We also need other equipment and materials as well as an overwhelming amount of tools available.
That’s definitely worth having an oversized vehicle for. I’m not questioning that at all. The supersized pickup with an 8ft bed and seating for 12 is where the fuck cars frustration comes in.
Don’t worry he’s REALY not an asshole and also knows how to spell
The misspelling of really was bothersome… But the 4 dot ellipsis triggers me. That and windshield is also misspelled. I’m not perfect but if I’m gonna print something I’ll at least hit spellchecker.
Yeah I feel like if you are going to print that you should at least run spell check
So much accusations and assumptions. What if the owner is a construction worker doing custom kitchen deliveries, and needs this monster for living. You sure can’t haul a kitchen kit in your man’s Toyota Aygo or Fiat 500.
What if he’s got to move these refrigerators? What if he’s got to move these color tv’s?
What if he’s got to move these refrigerators? What if he’s got to move these color tv’s?
That ain’t workin’. That’s the way you do it.
Yeah you play some music on the MTV
That’s a challenge.
How about a rancher, car hauler, or farmer.
Far too many people have no concept for legitimate need for such a monster of a vehicle because they only know assholes who want a big truck for the sake of having a big truck.
To be fair, the majority of truck owners have no need for the utility, and just want a big truck
How come not a single contractor, farmer or hauler needs one in any other country?
If you turned up to a building site in one of those you’d get absolutely laughed at for your fucking stupidity
Have you ever been to another country though? The kinds of cars handymen in Europe prefer are usually a van like T6 or Sprinter, the latter being 20 feet long. For a good pro, their van usually contains a supermarket’s worth of tools and materials nearly assembled and ready to use. You can’t just assume America is the only place that needs hauling stuff.
That was exactly the point I was making. For a contractor, a pickup is one of the least useful vehicles.
My point was that in other countries, everyone uses vans or lorries
Other countries have vehicles that are sized to accommodate the conditions; smaller roads, less space, and different emissions laws. America wasn’t built based on 1,500+ year old roads.
You can’t have an 8ft wide dually with a 20ft trailer to take an excavator to a job site in London, you need a lorry. You would be laughed at because you can’t maneuver that setup around and would get fucked in pinch points on a one-way street.
Said like someone whose driving test involves mostly ordering a burger at a drive through 😂
Yous’ll think up any excuse for your tiny-penis trucks despite nobody else in the world, including those in bigger countries with worse roads, requiring them
You’re adorable.
You sure can’t haul a kitchen kit in your man’s Toyota Aygo or Fiat 500.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. With Ikea flat-pack cabinets and a small enough kitchen design (e.g. galley kitchen in a tiny apartment), I wouldn’t be surprised if you could fit everything except the appliances in one of those tiny cars.
Of course, it’d probably be easier to fit them on a bicycle with a proper trailer.
That’s an amazing trailer! Add in an ebike and you could haul almost anything you need for the vast majority of home projects.
You never tried that yourself, am I right?
What, the tiny car thing or the bike trailer thing?
I don’t have an Aygo/500 or a fancy Bikes at Work trailer, but I have hauled stuff in the Hyundai Accent hatchback I used to own and towed cargo in a cheap Instep bicycle trailer.
(I admit, a Hyundai Accent hatchback is quite a bit bigger than an Aygo or 500, especially with the rear seats folded down. It can hold enough that I’d be more worried about maxing out weight capacity when hauling flat-pack cabinets, rather than having sufficient cargo volume for them.)
A van would totally fit for this sort of job, as you can just put your tools inside your van. If you need to carry something longer a mini-truck will do too. Pickup truck is an offroad machine and suitable for a lot of offroad application, but more often than not a lot of people use it on asphalt and 99%of the time not hauling anything.
The top 3 vehicle being sold in US in 2023 are all pickup. The accusation and assumption is very much warranted.
The cropping makes me suspicious. I don’t know what vehicle it is or where it is. Feels like engineered rage bait.
Exactly this here. Give people an open online discussion platform and they will turn it into Twitter.
Then park in the back of the lot or on the street.
How do you know it isn’t? The picture looks intentionally framed to obscure where this vehicle is parked or even what it is.
I hauled my entire kitchen remodel home in a Prius.
Cool. How many trips? Would you do it for a living?
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Let it stick out into “traffic,” since it’s just a parking lot. Better to have to drive around it than to take up an extra spot.
I’ve never bought anything in IKEA that I couldn’t fit in a sedan. Almost everything comes in a flatpack box specifically designed to fit in a standard car.
In the extremely rare occasions where I ever had to move something big like a mattress or a couch, I rented a pickup truck for half a day or used a trailer. I don’t understand people who buy a huge pickup truck as a daily driver “just in case they need it to move something big”. It’s extremely wasteful and they drive like crap.
If you rented the pickup for the day, you’d still have to park it at the IKEA… this particular situation would not be avoided by not owning the truck yourself
Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.
Yes it would, because you wouldn’t need an explanatory note for the occasional rental. The note indicates he does this all the time.
Right because he works ALL THE TIME.
Actually no, when I rent a pickup truck to pick up something I rent a standard cab one that actually still fits in a standard parking spot.
A 22 feet long pickup truck is the largest setup you can get with the huge cab and large bed. These used to be extremely niche. But nowadays, they’ve become increasingly popular because some insecure people can’t cope with not having the biggest truck on the road, or people who really want a car they can move their family with but also want a large bed just in case they need to move something big once a year, which is, as I said, extremely wasteful.
The message he printed to put in his window makes it sound like he’s a victim in all of this. But he chose to get a truck like that. That’s on him.
You don’t like cars and yet you care how they’re arranged in a parking lot?
Somebody who dislikes cars uses one??
Impossible!
*really
I did a thing with my personal property that doesn’t work in society but makes me feel special but I’m not an arsehole
You know, it doesn’t say how they’re taking up two spots. If they’re going about it long-wise, then I’d be okay with long ass vehicles taking up two spots. I’ve seen cars/trucks with trailers do it all the time.
Now if they’re parking like a BMW and taking up two spots that way, then sure, they’re kind of an ahole. Slightly Less so if at least they parked in the boonies.
I think the assholery entirely derives from where in the lot they are. First half of rows? Fuckin asshole. Ass end of the lot? You’re fine. I’m not gonna assume this person doesn’t have a reason for owning a larger vehicle, that’d be unreasonable. I’ll judge based on the actual information present, and it seems like they’re at least TRYING.
Yeah there’s that too lol.The further back the better.
That’s the second time I’ve noticed the word boonies and they were both today. What does it mean?
Short for “boondocks,” which just means out in a rural area (or in this case, the far end of the parking lot).
I’m too lazy to look up the etymology though.
Thanks. I was clearly too lazy to Google it either! Have a good day, helpful internet steanger.
Boonies (n): a thinly settled rural area
Boondocks (n): a remote, thinly settled rural area
(They both have basically the same definition, but I thought I’d still put them both for good measure.)
Thank you!
I mean if it’s for mostly utility and work I’ll give this a pass.
Also most of the time the a-holes take 2 width worth of parking spaces. Rarely I see 2 parking space long.
When I used to have a beetle I used to park behind super long trucks at major events when there was no parking spaces left… So… win win.
This would have to be a HD truck with an 8ft bed and a crew cab. I don’t see anyone driving those things around for fun.
The lifted truck crowd is doing short beds.
i’m willing to bet lots of money this is actually just a box truck, look at the interior and roof line, it’s just a box truck.
I’m not seeing that. Logo on the steering wheel seems likely to be a Ram. Though, I can’t entirely make it out.
you might be right about the steering wheel logo. Though i’m still willing to make that bet lol
It does seem that there are box trucks based on the Ram pickup chassis, but I don’t think I’ve seen those in person. Most box trucks I see here in Canada are either based on a van chassis (usually Ford Econoline or Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana, but sometimes European-style vans like the Sprinter), the Ford F-650/750, or an actual truck chassis, like an Isuzu cabover or something from a company like Kenworth or International.
if it’s for mostly utility and work I’ll give this a pass.
What is the utility or work application that requires a truck that can’t fit in a regular sized parking space? There are plenty of trucks that fit in regular sized parking spaces, what is the special use case here that needs to be 22 feet long?
In the US, all metal tubes/pipes/stock for metal-working related tasks (welding, plumbing, structural stuff) comes in 20ft sections. The three options that I know of for transporting them are: trailer, box truck or roof rack.
A 22foot truck with roof rack would be perfect for someone who works with metal e.g. a plumber. A smaller truck would work but then you’ve got a bunch of pipes hanging off like you’re in a jousting tournament.20 foot pipes on a roof rack sounds like an impalation waiting to happen, regardless of the size of the vehicle underneath.
Trailer or box truck delivery to their shop where they can cut it to length and transport it in a smaller vehicle if it fits. And if it doesn’t, use the trailer or box truck to deliver it to the site.
Most of the time, I’d guess that pipe that long is involved in new builds or major renovations.
Or, at the very least, make these oversized trucks require a business or trades license if they are truly the best option for some business or trades scenarios.
Aright then, how about for a ladder? Do you want to drive a box truck or trailer around to hold one ladder and painting supplies or whatever?
At least a ladder can be secured with more than just friction on the sides, so I’m not as concerned about the safety.
People were able to move ladders before oversized trucks were a thing.
But it would work with the “limit them to businesses and trades people who actually benefit from having an oversized truck instead of a small or normal sized one”.
Towing, in particular with a fifth wheel or gooseneck trailer.
What benefit does a longer truck provide to towing? A stronger engine and a stronger frame does not require a longer frame.
Crosswind stability and you need the larger bed for tighter turning with the gooseneck or fifth wheel hitch.
Also depends on where. If they parked in a mostly empty area of the parking lot, ok, who cares. If they park in the closest possible place that can fit them, well, that’s not cool.
I think this is the nicest way to go about parking a vehicle like this. I might think it’s a bigger vehicle than necessary, but this is not the person who should primarily receive hate for their choice of car.
exactly, it could be their work vehicle and they don’t have a choice! people like to view it from their hate colored glasses and make assumptions. I used to drive a big box truck when my car died, it took up two spaces, but I’m an asshole for not buying a car that meets your criteria, got it!
Depends on where they parked. If it’s way out of the way, then no one cares, they aren’t using a parking spot someone wanted anyway.
If they are right at the front of the store, well that’s a bit entitled.
As the person driving is extremely likely to have been the buyer, yes, they deserve the hate.
No, they don’t. It’s bad that someone buys this to begin with, and yeah it sucks that they’re taking up two parking spaces, but why direct your hate towards a person who actually seems to have a better attitude than 99% of people driving similar vehicles?
They seem to have a better attitude because of the sign?
Yes.
