One of the bosses at my work has a massive Fall Guy truck, and often has huge items delivered to work, just so he has an excuse to use it.
"You won't get that in the back of a Fiesta"
That's right dickhead, because we'd have the items delivered to our homes.
Or, and hear me out, I can rent a truck for the one time a year I need one. 20 bucks for a few hours from uhaul vs.... 20,000 more for a big truck over a commuter car.
That's what I keep thinking about. Like sometimes I would love an older, smaller styled truck. It could be really useful, but it sucks they aren't really an option anymore.
But then I think about it, and how often would I use it? I just bought a TV and had to have it delivered because it wouldn't fit in our car. We recently moved, and it would have been great.
But other than that, I honestly can't think of any time recently I've needed it.
I've thought that too. If they made a tiny truck, like an old style 90s ranger or tacoma but as an EV? I'd buy that tomorrow. Literally tomorrow I'd go buy it. But of course they don't, they're all these monstrously sized bohemoths that I have no interest in driving.
Until they make my dream tiny truck I'll just go rent one.
20k just for the cost of the vehicle, probably MORE, plus extra insurance, gas tax cost all to save 50$ once in a while on a truck rental.
Not to mention that a pickup is basically half a completely useless car. You can't sit in the back, you can't really use it for hauling delicate stuff... It's just such a bizzare concept for non farmers.
You may not like it, but this is what peak freight vehicle looks like
Fr though kei trucks are sexy as fuck
I had a supervisor that blew his entire OT and 401k on $90000 truck and proceeded to complain about how shit the gas mileage was.
Meanwhile I bet a prius will carry 99% of what they put in it
Oh, they would never put anything in it. That might scratch the bed.
They brag about being able to carry stuff then get one of those stupid long cab short beds that are good at nothing
My Subaru Forester with a roof rack hauls almost anything short of large furniture or a yard of gravel.
See that's what gets me. You need a very specifically large load that is (in my experience) extremely rare. In the gas savings alone you could just rent a truck when you need to move gravel or large furniture and not scratch up your $90,000 truck.
My coworker lives in a downtown apartment with a cramped parking garage and bought a full size pickup to drive 1.5 miles to the parking garage at our workplace to write code. I'm embarrassed for them and keep telling them to buy a bicycle
1.5 miles? Shit i'd just walk.
Seriously, that's a 20-25 minute walk. Perfect, natural exercise opportunity completely wasted!
I have lately been pretty convinced that 70% of pickup drivers don't actually need a truck but instead use it to compensate their insecurity about their small dicks and their fragile masculinity.
I can't wait til we as a society get over shaming small dicks. I don't have a dick but it's cringy to me when people use "small dick" as an insult like this.
For me it's not so much trying to insult them for having a small dick, but insulting them for caring so much about having a small dick they feel the need to compensate.
Doesn't matter that their dick is small, just that they're so insecure about it they need to try and tell the world it's not true.
Well, you're not exactly contributing to a world where that insecurity is eliminated. And besides, you'll never win an emotional debate with rational arguments.
Absolutely. All you have to ask is why they need to own a truck and they instantly get overly defensive. I'm not saying there aren't cases where you need to own truck but the vast majority of cases people bring up don't even require a truck much less owning one.
Someone I work with has never not owned a truck, mostly because "they don't need the hassle of renting one when they need to do yardwork and buy a fridge from the store" or something.
So spending an extra $20,000-$30,000 every 10 years is totally worth those occasional trips and avoiding renting a tailer/pickup from home Depot maybe twice a year.
You fools! They'll have to move some furniture 5 years from now then who'll be laughing!!!
Also, with large vehicles more generally, there's this awful snowball effect where people go "I get to sit up high and it's bigger, so I feel safer! Besides, when I'm in a regular car I feel like I'm going to get crushed like a beer can."
This of course ignores that:
I am that uncle. I'm just doing what I have to to survive.
If I could buy a new car I would. I'd get an electric, self-driving pleasure machine, but no way I can afford it.
Maybe when this thing breaks down (it's already 15 yrs old).
No problem with that. I think the meme is referring to people who spent 100k on outlandishly large and glitzy trucks to spend 100% of their lives on paved suburban streets.
Complete with lift kit doing 98 on the freeway
Dont forget to tailgate then hang next to the car you were tailgating for a few moments before flying past you just to end up at the same stop light down the road.
My sister in-law? Broke as fuck, came across a windfall from an accident that never came up before, spent more than a third of it on... a fucking F-150 platinum. Still deep in debt, living in low income housing, doesn't have a job.
This is completely understandable. The solution isn't another car, it's better city planning and public transit.
You could switch to a small cheap sedan
It's a gamble to get a used car you know nothing about when you have a truck you know is at least a bit reliable. My family grew up playing used car roulette and it's pretty damn hard to come out ahead in this scenario. Best to run the thing until it dies while saving up for a new or like new vehicle.
The parking lot at work is filled huge pickup trucks, while the inside of the building is filled with tiny penises.
We need to find a new way to hate on stupid vehicles without body shaming.
The guys with small dicks never did anything wrong. I’m sure some of those truck drivers have massive cannons the diameter of a coke can, but that doesn’t excuse their stupid wasteful vanity machines.
This is literally half of all Canadian men. Probably similar in the US.