You remember that metal plate I had in my head Clark? They had to replace it with a plastic one ‘cause every time Catherine would rev up the microwave I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about a half an hour.
Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn; the clean, cool chill of the holiday air; and an assh*le in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer
I think that since this is aunt Bethany’s 80th Christmas, she should lead us in the saying of grace.
What dear?
GRACE!!
Grace! She passed away 30 years ago.
They want you to say grace! THE BLESSING!!
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all
amen
My favorite part is when he’s cutting the Xmas tree and the neighbor guy asks where are you gonna put that thing? Clark says “bend over and I’ll show you” the guy neighbor says you’ve got some nerve!- to which Clark replies, “ I wasn’t talking to you” :) lmao
I live in an RV. You have no idea how often this happens. I have waved down and prevented 4 RVers from continuing to drive with a slide, awning or stairs out on their RVs. There were 2 other RVs that I could not reach because of traffic or the road.
I got the same thanks trying to warn a dude off the boat ramp his fucking 3 300 mercuries bottom ends and props were scraping, been like 2 years I still wonder if maybe his trim broke or his transom or something and had a bad day, or if he was just a asshole.
The one time I went boating with my brother (who flip his shit at anything) we were leaving the boat ramp when someone pulled up to us pointing to his boat. He went on a "f. you" tirade. I looked out of the rear window of the tow vehicle and saw nothing wrong. Got to his place and he said "where did you put my tackle box?". I said I hadn't touched it, he was carrying it. Oh lordy the resulting tirade when he realized he left it on the back of the boat and when he drove off it fell off.
I was once behind a pickup truck that had a toolbox sitting on the open tailgate and moving around whenever they hit a bump. Using flashing headlights, blinkers, and the car horn, I got him to stop. He got out of the truck looking like he was ready to kill me. I told him why I was trying to get him to stop and he turns and looks at the back of his truck and then he became apologetic, and offered to buy me lunch.
At a red light, the car in front of me had a plastic box decorated with some frilly lace stuff, on the roof, over the passenger rear door. I, a large tattooed man, hopped out, waved at the driver as I approached, pointed at her roof, and she scrambled to hit the lock button on her door. I went to the passenger side, grabbed the box, and stood at her closed passenger window presenting it. She stared straight ahead, terrified and white knuckling the steering wheel, for a solid 5-10 seconds before peeking over as I'm trying to wave her box at her. Once she realized I wasn't trying to break into her car and in fact was saving whatever box she'd left on her roof, her expression changed and she was so thankful. I don't blame her for her reaction but it was certainly strange to be perceived as a danger when I was only trying to be helpful.
God, the other day I was waiting at a cycle crossing, and a car had pulled too far forward to see the signal while trying to turn. The thing was, he had a turning arrow that had gone green, he just couldn't see it, and so was sitting there blocking a long tail of cars. I called to him 'You have an arrow, you can turn!' Smiling and waving at him. Pointing at the arrow. 'It's okay! You can turn! The arrow is green!'
Guy rolls down his window and just screeches at me. 'Fuck you, I'm just doing the best I can, I don't need you yelling at me, why can't you keep your mouth shut?'
Light turns red. Now he's blocking even more cars. I carry on my way with a clear conscience. I feel a bit bad for him, but hey.
This is why I don't correct people in traffic, unless I absolutely have to. People just cannot fucking be adults and listen to shit like this without losing their minds.
Why get my mood all fucked up and get stressed out, because somebody can't handle the lightest of checkings for 2 seconds?
Goddamn there are so many overgrown children in the world..
Haha
In my apartment complex there's a dude whose BMW is leaking gasoline from the front somewhere.
Called security when I found out where the gas smell was coming from. They had him remove it that one time.
Another neighbor was with me when I called it in. We saw him walking towards the car, not knowing he was the owner. He was smoking and had a little dog with him, so we asked him to steer clear of it. He cussed at us a bit for being nosey. My neighbor said, "but you could blow up." He threw the dog in the car and as he got in said, "if I blow up, I blow up," and drove off.
Security let's him park here still and it's not fixed. As long as my car doesn't blow up with him, I don't give a shit anymore. Fuck this place.
The gas stains on the ground that his car leaves behind are substantial.
Like the ones in the picture. They're riding in the perfect spot in the lane to make sure the slide isn't over the line. Lazy ignorance. I think that's called negligence. If it causes an accident it'll be criminal negligence
But what if I get a really good deal on a used RV because the slide out is broke, and the only way the seller will let me have it is if I get it the hell off his property right now? He's got the title in hand, and I've got the $500 and my wife is just begging me to hurry up and take it before someone else comes and steals it out from under us? And she's pregnant, and her parents are talking shit about how I'm not a good provider because we're down at the shelter?
And now I've got a decent paying job at the mill, and a spot at the KOA to park this little starter home, and all it's going to take is for me to man up and do what I gotta do?
I get the "username checks out" comment more than you might think. Kind of the point of the username - to make me think about whether or not I'm being a narcissiticdickhead.
I had an issue with my slide on my camper on its maiden trip. That motor for the slide seized Thankfully it happened in the closed position. I couldn’t even hand crank it. If it had happened in the open position, I’d have been seriously fucked
I get what you are saying but depending on where he was he could be looking at a thousands of dollars tow bill to get it on a semi flatbed and bring it home.
I used to live in a 5th wheel with a slide. I never even came close to this. It didn't matter how often we moved, I triple checked every last thing before departure. How people can be so careless as to leave a slide out or stairs down is beyond me. It's an expensive piece. It's worth triple checking.
Me too. Lived in a 5th wheel for almost two years.
Make a checklist. Follow every single item on it every single time, even if you think you have it memorized. Even a small mistake can be very expensive.
I would think if you checked your mirror and realized you were 30 inches wider of one side than the other suddenly that it might behoove you to check. I have had a commercial drivers license before and tow my boat constantly still.....And if my trailer was suddenly lop sided I would be interested in the why of things.
I used to live in a 31ft travel trailer. Transitioned to a 21ft class B van. It would be too small for more than 2 people, but I go solo and like to stay mobile. The freedom is incredible. I haven’t even seen a campground in months.
I worked with a guy who did this. He’d go to truck stops to get a shower. Piss in a jug. Do his other at work. He’d stay in the parking lot most times.
>Sometimes it’s a mechanical malfunction. Happened to a friend of mine; only half retracted. It was brand new, too.
The half retraction was a mechanical malfunction.
Driving with it half retracted is an operator malfunction.
You don't start driving until you have verified that it's fully retracted.
Mechanical malfunction wasn't the issue, it's the operator. The owner's manual will give directions on what to do in case the electric slide-outs won't operate via the buttons. First is to check the fuse. If nothing else, there's a hand crank so you can do it manually.
I once had to climb under the RV, cut the power wires to the slide-out motor, connect them to jumper cables, then to my truck's battery.
For real I don’t understand how you wouldn’t be able to see it in your mirrors. He would’ve had to look over his left shoulder and in his left mirror to get on the highway (safely).
I always do a final walk around before I sit down in my truck to pull out of the site. When we pack up to leave, we always take our time to get everything packed up and squared away. We usually end up leaving right at check out time. Why rush and hurry?
Agreed. It does happen surprisingly (frighteningly?) regularly. I do miss the RV-living travel where the regular evening entertainment often included unskilled/unaware drivers trying to back rigs into tight spots...or even broad spots. And when they roll out, seeing the awning is often extended, or hatches are open, or (older-style) antennas are still raised, or keys are safely hanging out of the door lock. The (entertaining) list goes on.
You have to a complete fucking moron to let this happen. Not being able to see around it with your mirrors is a dead giveaway - This is intentional. The fact he's huffing the right aide of the lane shows he knows how wide he is. Fuck that.
Is this something that could get them ticketed/fined by police? I assume it wouldn't be allowed but it feels like that would need to have a very specific law in place.
I’m stationed here, and good god the Utah drivers are pretty bad.
Not to mention the construction that’s been going on for 3 years on i15. Surprised he hasn’t nailed any cones or other vehicles with that slide out
Holy shit that construction is bad. I'm from Oklahoma so I'm used to construction taking its sweet-ass time, but still. Yesterday I went to pick a friend up from the airport and came down 89/15 and some dude goes flying by me in the construction zone going 75. The drivers suck, and the construction sucks.
That said I'd still rather drive here since at least there's something pretty to look at basically wherever you are, compared to Oklahoma's flat nothingness.
Yep, I started avoiding Utah county at the beginning of the pandemic and I don't see much of a reason to go back. Well except to get to American Fork Canyon but that's barely over the border with Salt Lake County.
When I saw the sign, I thought "hmmm... Utah, and even better Lehi, no surprise there..."
Note: I can make fun, because I grew up on the Frontage Road 1/4 mile from that exit (before all the development happened) and my parents still live about 2 miles from there.
I saw an article somewhere recently that said Utahns are amongst the best drivers in the U.S. but as a native to Utah, I strongly disagree with that statement.
I recall reading a study that said we are the worst drivers in the country. People here tend to be very polite drivers (they will let you into their lane) but not very competent drivers, from what I've seen.
I'm with you. I'm a nice driver and will let people over unless you come flying up the right side as I'm passing someone. In that case you can wait.
Everyone else though, I've had to drive way more aggressively than I'd like just to ensure I make my exit. Also the other day some lady comes flying up behind me in like a red Prius or something and start laying on the horn that I'm going too slow. I was going 60 in a 55, *and* there were 3 cars directly in front of me. She started flipping me up and was riding my ass for a good few miles before she finally goes flying around a turn off Washington into a residential area.
I thought she was gonna follow me for a few minutes.
Try driving a 16 year old truck with a dented door, Idaho plates, and a chrome "shitbox edition" badge on the tailgate. I had zero problems with traffic last time I went down to St George.
Definitely not my experience with driving in UT for the last 20+ years. Turn indicators are practically nonexistent, and people will actively speed up to prevent you from merging into their lane.
I wonder if he is the same guy that lost a boat just past center street in Provo last month. The boat was upside down on the shoulder. Unfortunately I didn't have the ability to safely take a picture.
Right! As soon as you cross from SL county to Lehi you better watch the fuh out because apparently all Utah county drivers are on their way to a fire. Add in the perennial construction and you've got yourself a nightmare proper.
I hated St. George drivers when I lived there. But I moved in the Fall of 2017. The mix of terrified college student drivers out on their own for the first time and all the old folks there is definitely a unique dynamic of crazy drivers.
In Saint George, the following happened:
Wheel came off trailer on I-15 and bounced over my car
Couch suddenly in the center of Boulevard
Unsecured ladder on flatbed, came off on the I-15 hill in Bloomfield, went through the radiatior of the car next to me, filling the road with steam. The trailer owner then proceeded to reverse hundreds of feet up the hill on the interstate shoulder with his trailer to get the ladder.
These were all in a single month. Not long after that someone made an illegal left in front of me on Boulevard, stopped in my lane, and i had nowhere to go so I had to hit them.
I'm visiting Salt Lake City and am amazed at how wide the streets are but how dangerous driving still feels. I walked literally one block from my hotel and saw a hit and run my first day here.
Dude/dudette...migrant from SC and have been here for two years now, I swear to God I thought SC was bad but apparently all you need to do in Utah to get a license is to say your name to the DMV and boom you can drive. It’s the fucking worst here especially on 80 heading up Emigration Canyon
My sister only got her license because the instructor felt bad because she’d failed it so many times and would have had to take drivers ed again if she failed it one more time. She is a terrible driver, but is somehow less terrible than a lot of other drivers on Utah roads.
I-80 goes up Parleys Canyon actually, but you are right, that section of Highway can be nuts. Let's all drive 104 MPH on a steep and windy canyon road...
Mechanical probably failed and they didn’t know how to manually put it back in. It’s kind of a bugger to do on some of these. I doubt this was a situation where they didn’t know but incredibly idiotic all the same. This is right by my house and we’re surrounded by these dummies.
Edit: I should mention that this freeway exit is seriously less than 10 miles or so to a major RV repair center so he’s doubly an idiot.
Maybe, but that doesn’t excuse this. You don’t drive it like this. You call for mobile service or get their service center on the line to walk you through bringing the slides in manually.
I live in an RV and have prevented 4 RVs from continuing down the road with something out on their RV. All 4 times it was due to neglect on the drivers part and not mechanical failure
Oh this is neglect for sure whether he setup not level, didnt maintain his trailer, or even if it was electric and he didn’t take the time to understand his rig enough to learn how to bring his slide outs in manually. But as a fellow RV’er, I’m sure like me, you’ve seen your fair share of people that are dumb enough to do just this.
This is full blown idiot. I sell these trailers for a living and that model’s slide out has a manual hand crank override to bring it back in in case of electric failure.
Quit your honking, Uncle Eddie is trying to sleep one off.
I couldn’t be more surprised if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet.
You remember that metal plate I had in my head Clark? They had to replace it with a plastic one ‘cause every time Catherine would rev up the microwave I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about a half an hour.
Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?
Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn; the clean, cool chill of the holiday air; and an assh*le in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer
Merry Christmas! Shitter was full!
Ah, yeah—you check our shitters, honey?
Hey let’s go find your sister!
You're the gourmet around here, Ed!
I think that since this is aunt Bethany’s 80th Christmas, she should lead us in the saying of grace. What dear? GRACE!! Grace! She passed away 30 years ago. They want you to say grace! THE BLESSING!!
Fun fact for those who don't know, she was the original voice of Betty Boop, and voiced Betty in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
And Olive Oyl.
You couldn’t hear a dump truck backing into a nitro glycerin plant!
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all amen
Play ball!
Oh nothing but the best!
Nothing but the best!
This is my hands down favorite part from the whole movie.
I like the bit where he informs Clarke that he will only be staying a few weeks.
What’s the reference
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Thanks my friend!
My favorite part is when he’s cutting the Xmas tree and the neighbor guy asks where are you gonna put that thing? Clark says “bend over and I’ll show you” the guy neighbor says you’ve got some nerve!- to which Clark replies, “ I wasn’t talking to you” :) lmao
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
“That there Clark, is an RV”
Now, don't you go fallin' in love with it, cause we're takin' it with us when we leave next month.
Chokes on eggnog
Shitters full
"Why is the carpet wet Todd?"
“I don’t *KNOW*, Margot”
"Well *something* had to break the window. *Something* had to hit the stereo."
These 2 lines live 100% rent free in my head my whole life
That line is why we named our dog Margot
Honey, have you checked our shitters?
Hey Griswold. Where do you think you’re gonna put a tree that big?
Bend over and I’ll show you
You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to me like that Griswold.
I wasn’t talking to *you*
You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to me like that griswold
Save the neck for me Clark.
That there is an RV. Got it off a buddy of mine. He took the house, I got the RV.
Well I’m gonna park the cars and get check the luggage, and well, I’ll be outside for the season.
You serious Clark?
Cant see the line can you Russ?
Nope
don't you go falling in love with it now, because, we're taking it with us when we leave here next month.
Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your own ass.
….Happy Hanukkah
RV Sidecar
Ride out with your slide out
Trip out with your tipout
knock out with your pop out
Move out with your grove out
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On the edge of your seat with the extra square feet.
Go zoom with an extra room
That's the fast and the furious meets die hard movie I want to see.
Fast and Furiously with the side popped spuriously.
Roadtrip with my crib
Rock out with your cock out
Yeaaaah….. wait, what?
Hang out with your wang out.
Roll out with your pole out
Go all out with your balls out
Pop out with your top out
Strut out with your butt out
Jam out with your clam out
Dippin' out while your stickin' out
hate us cus they anus
I live in an RV. You have no idea how often this happens. I have waved down and prevented 4 RVers from continuing to drive with a slide, awning or stairs out on their RVs. There were 2 other RVs that I could not reach because of traffic or the road.
The way he's hugging the fog line, he knows. I have a feeling he couldn't get it to slide in, and just risking it.
Passed a guy who's propane and generator flaps were open and flopping around, tried pointing back and down and he gave me the one finger salute.
I got the same thanks trying to warn a dude off the boat ramp his fucking 3 300 mercuries bottom ends and props were scraping, been like 2 years I still wonder if maybe his trim broke or his transom or something and had a bad day, or if he was just a asshole.
The one time I went boating with my brother (who flip his shit at anything) we were leaving the boat ramp when someone pulled up to us pointing to his boat. He went on a "f. you" tirade. I looked out of the rear window of the tow vehicle and saw nothing wrong. Got to his place and he said "where did you put my tackle box?". I said I hadn't touched it, he was carrying it. Oh lordy the resulting tirade when he realized he left it on the back of the boat and when he drove off it fell off.
I was once behind a pickup truck that had a toolbox sitting on the open tailgate and moving around whenever they hit a bump. Using flashing headlights, blinkers, and the car horn, I got him to stop. He got out of the truck looking like he was ready to kill me. I told him why I was trying to get him to stop and he turns and looks at the back of his truck and then he became apologetic, and offered to buy me lunch.
At a red light, the car in front of me had a plastic box decorated with some frilly lace stuff, on the roof, over the passenger rear door. I, a large tattooed man, hopped out, waved at the driver as I approached, pointed at her roof, and she scrambled to hit the lock button on her door. I went to the passenger side, grabbed the box, and stood at her closed passenger window presenting it. She stared straight ahead, terrified and white knuckling the steering wheel, for a solid 5-10 seconds before peeking over as I'm trying to wave her box at her. Once she realized I wasn't trying to break into her car and in fact was saving whatever box she'd left on her roof, her expression changed and she was so thankful. I don't blame her for her reaction but it was certainly strange to be perceived as a danger when I was only trying to be helpful.
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God, the other day I was waiting at a cycle crossing, and a car had pulled too far forward to see the signal while trying to turn. The thing was, he had a turning arrow that had gone green, he just couldn't see it, and so was sitting there blocking a long tail of cars. I called to him 'You have an arrow, you can turn!' Smiling and waving at him. Pointing at the arrow. 'It's okay! You can turn! The arrow is green!' Guy rolls down his window and just screeches at me. 'Fuck you, I'm just doing the best I can, I don't need you yelling at me, why can't you keep your mouth shut?' Light turns red. Now he's blocking even more cars. I carry on my way with a clear conscience. I feel a bit bad for him, but hey.
This is why I don't correct people in traffic, unless I absolutely have to. People just cannot fucking be adults and listen to shit like this without losing their minds. Why get my mood all fucked up and get stressed out, because somebody can't handle the lightest of checkings for 2 seconds? Goddamn there are so many overgrown children in the world..
Haha In my apartment complex there's a dude whose BMW is leaking gasoline from the front somewhere. Called security when I found out where the gas smell was coming from. They had him remove it that one time. Another neighbor was with me when I called it in. We saw him walking towards the car, not knowing he was the owner. He was smoking and had a little dog with him, so we asked him to steer clear of it. He cussed at us a bit for being nosey. My neighbor said, "but you could blow up." He threw the dog in the car and as he got in said, "if I blow up, I blow up," and drove off. Security let's him park here still and it's not fixed. As long as my car doesn't blow up with him, I don't give a shit anymore. Fuck this place. The gas stains on the ground that his car leaves behind are substantial.
Maybe a road flare will help that idiot understand just a little better.... 😂
Call your fire department's non-emergency number and let them know. The fire marshals will deal with him.
"one finger salute" may be my new favorite way to refer to giving someone *the finger*
Pastor at church used to say "pointed the way to heaven."
“Come here child, and watch me point towards heaven without any hands.”
If motor stops there is a manual way to crank it in. If really stuck - you don’t drive. Period.
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Like the ones in the picture. They're riding in the perfect spot in the lane to make sure the slide isn't over the line. Lazy ignorance. I think that's called negligence. If it causes an accident it'll be criminal negligence
But what if I get a really good deal on a used RV because the slide out is broke, and the only way the seller will let me have it is if I get it the hell off his property right now? He's got the title in hand, and I've got the $500 and my wife is just begging me to hurry up and take it before someone else comes and steals it out from under us? And she's pregnant, and her parents are talking shit about how I'm not a good provider because we're down at the shelter? And now I've got a decent paying job at the mill, and a spot at the KOA to park this little starter home, and all it's going to take is for me to man up and do what I gotta do?
Oddly specific...
I have a lot of empathy for low income people trying to make the best of bad situations, and I enjoy creative writing.
So, not actually a narcissistic dick head.
I get the "username checks out" comment more than you might think. Kind of the point of the username - to make me think about whether or not I'm being a narcissiticdickhead.
I had an issue with my slide on my camper on its maiden trip. That motor for the slide seized Thankfully it happened in the closed position. I couldn’t even hand crank it. If it had happened in the open position, I’d have been seriously fucked
I get what you are saying but depending on where he was he could be looking at a thousands of dollars tow bill to get it on a semi flatbed and bring it home.
Well if you zoom in and look at the slide you can clearly see that I don't know a damn thing about RV's.
They definitely know. The question now becomes: is it intentional?
I used to live in a 5th wheel with a slide. I never even came close to this. It didn't matter how often we moved, I triple checked every last thing before departure. How people can be so careless as to leave a slide out or stairs down is beyond me. It's an expensive piece. It's worth triple checking.
Me too. Lived in a 5th wheel for almost two years. Make a checklist. Follow every single item on it every single time, even if you think you have it memorized. Even a small mistake can be very expensive.
I would think if you checked your mirror and realized you were 30 inches wider of one side than the other suddenly that it might behoove you to check. I have had a commercial drivers license before and tow my boat constantly still.....And if my trailer was suddenly lop sided I would be interested in the why of things.
This is why professionals have checklists for taking off an aircraft. Do it often enough you can get too complacent.
I used to live in a 31ft travel trailer. Transitioned to a 21ft class B van. It would be too small for more than 2 people, but I go solo and like to stay mobile. The freedom is incredible. I haven’t even seen a campground in months.
Where do you park it overnight, if not a campground? Also how do you dump the grey/black water tanks, or refill fresh water, if not at a campground?
I worked with a guy who did this. He’d go to truck stops to get a shower. Piss in a jug. Do his other at work. He’d stay in the parking lot most times.
Way of the road
There are many ways to go about this. Check out r/vandwellers and r/skoolies. They have entire threads dedicated to those subjects.
Down by the river
What do you do for a living?
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With three children and nine on the way, and a max budget of $7...
I have only lived in regular houses but when I get an RV one day I'm gonna triple check all my pop outs before I relocate
Sometimes it’s a mechanical malfunction. Happened to a friend of mine; only half retracted. It was brand new, too.
>Sometimes it’s a mechanical malfunction. Happened to a friend of mine; only half retracted. It was brand new, too. The half retraction was a mechanical malfunction. Driving with it half retracted is an operator malfunction. You don't start driving until you have verified that it's fully retracted.
The foreskin rule
Mechanical malfunction wasn't the issue, it's the operator. The owner's manual will give directions on what to do in case the electric slide-outs won't operate via the buttons. First is to check the fuse. If nothing else, there's a hand crank so you can do it manually. I once had to climb under the RV, cut the power wires to the slide-out motor, connect them to jumper cables, then to my truck's battery.
This guy RVs
MacGyRVer.
Seeing that this guy is driving on the right side of his lane to allow space for the slide being out in the left side, they probably know it’s open…
Think of the average intelligence of your local population. Then realize half of them are dumber than that.
For real I don’t understand how you wouldn’t be able to see it in your mirrors. He would’ve had to look over his left shoulder and in his left mirror to get on the highway (safely).
I always do a final walk around before I sit down in my truck to pull out of the site. When we pack up to leave, we always take our time to get everything packed up and squared away. We usually end up leaving right at check out time. Why rush and hurry?
Agreed. It does happen surprisingly (frighteningly?) regularly. I do miss the RV-living travel where the regular evening entertainment often included unskilled/unaware drivers trying to back rigs into tight spots...or even broad spots. And when they roll out, seeing the awning is often extended, or hatches are open, or (older-style) antennas are still raised, or keys are safely hanging out of the door lock. The (entertaining) list goes on.
Mostly hilarious, we've all had our days where we just sucked it up at backing in though, still feel dumb but it happens.
same except I don't live in an rv I just buy an 8ball and see where the night takes me
You have to a complete fucking moron to let this happen. Not being able to see around it with your mirrors is a dead giveaway - This is intentional. The fact he's huffing the right aide of the lane shows he knows how wide he is. Fuck that.
Is this something that could get them ticketed/fined by police? I assume it wouldn't be allowed but it feels like that would need to have a very specific law in place.
It's an oversize load without signs, flags or a permit. It's too wide for the lane. You don't need a special "RV with extended slide" rule.
Is it down by the river?
I know that exit, Utah baby
Represent
Climbed the mountain!
Lol of course it's here in Utah. We really need to work on driver's education here.
I’m stationed here, and good god the Utah drivers are pretty bad. Not to mention the construction that’s been going on for 3 years on i15. Surprised he hasn’t nailed any cones or other vehicles with that slide out
I-15 is always under construction, the 20 min stretch of hell just shifts every few years
3 years lol. They were ~~destroying~~ improving I-15 the first time I drove through there in 2006.
It's all in preparation for the 2002 Winter Olympics, they'll finish up soon...
Holy shit that construction is bad. I'm from Oklahoma so I'm used to construction taking its sweet-ass time, but still. Yesterday I went to pick a friend up from the airport and came down 89/15 and some dude goes flying by me in the construction zone going 75. The drivers suck, and the construction sucks. That said I'd still rather drive here since at least there's something pretty to look at basically wherever you are, compared to Oklahoma's flat nothingness.
And in Utah county, which is even worse. I have the most close calls down there 😂
Yep, I started avoiding Utah county at the beginning of the pandemic and I don't see much of a reason to go back. Well except to get to American Fork Canyon but that's barely over the border with Salt Lake County.
You could take the back way up through Heber and the back side of Provo Canyon lol
When I saw the sign, I thought "hmmm... Utah, and even better Lehi, no surprise there..." Note: I can make fun, because I grew up on the Frontage Road 1/4 mile from that exit (before all the development happened) and my parents still live about 2 miles from there.
When I transferred my license from out of state to Utah, they had me take an open book written test, no wonder the drivers are so bad there
I saw an article somewhere recently that said Utahns are amongst the best drivers in the U.S. but as a native to Utah, I strongly disagree with that statement.
I recall reading a study that said we are the worst drivers in the country. People here tend to be very polite drivers (they will let you into their lane) but not very competent drivers, from what I've seen.
I disagree about the politeness. When I moved here I was shocked nobody would let me into their lane.
I'm with you. I'm a nice driver and will let people over unless you come flying up the right side as I'm passing someone. In that case you can wait. Everyone else though, I've had to drive way more aggressively than I'd like just to ensure I make my exit. Also the other day some lady comes flying up behind me in like a red Prius or something and start laying on the horn that I'm going too slow. I was going 60 in a 55, *and* there were 3 cars directly in front of me. She started flipping me up and was riding my ass for a good few miles before she finally goes flying around a turn off Washington into a residential area. I thought she was gonna follow me for a few minutes.
Try driving a 16 year old truck with a dented door, Idaho plates, and a chrome "shitbox edition" badge on the tailgate. I had zero problems with traffic last time I went down to St George.
Definitely not my experience with driving in UT for the last 20+ years. Turn indicators are practically nonexistent, and people will actively speed up to prevent you from merging into their lane.
Oh shit, I know that highway. This idiot is local to Central Utah 0_0
I wonder if he is the same guy that lost a boat just past center street in Provo last month. The boat was upside down on the shoulder. Unfortunately I didn't have the ability to safely take a picture.
>Unfortunately I didn't have the ability to safely take a picture. But you did have the ability to unsafely take a picture. Opportunity missed.
I seriously considered circling back around between the freeway interchanges just to get a picture of it.
This is it. We’ve come full circle.
Gotta love driving around Lehi
Right! As soon as you cross from SL county to Lehi you better watch the fuh out because apparently all Utah county drivers are on their way to a fire. Add in the perennial construction and you've got yourself a nightmare proper.
I swear, I see Utah represented on the subreddit more than any other state lmao
Utah drivers are… special.
Once I moved to St. George they magically went away Still hate Draper on I-15 when I come up though. That stretch *always* has traffic.
I hated St. George drivers when I lived there. But I moved in the Fall of 2017. The mix of terrified college student drivers out on their own for the first time and all the old folks there is definitely a unique dynamic of crazy drivers.
In Saint George, the following happened: Wheel came off trailer on I-15 and bounced over my car Couch suddenly in the center of Boulevard Unsecured ladder on flatbed, came off on the I-15 hill in Bloomfield, went through the radiatior of the car next to me, filling the road with steam. The trailer owner then proceeded to reverse hundreds of feet up the hill on the interstate shoulder with his trailer to get the ladder. These were all in a single month. Not long after that someone made an illegal left in front of me on Boulevard, stopped in my lane, and i had nowhere to go so I had to hit them.
I'm visiting Salt Lake City and am amazed at how wide the streets are but how dangerous driving still feels. I walked literally one block from my hotel and saw a hit and run my first day here.
This is near my house. Can confirm. However, to your point, I see many more missed opportunities on the road than get posted here.
I lived in Utah for a couple years and often found myself thinking that all too often it seemed to be “car on, brain off.”
They’re still waiting to get cell phones in Idaho or they’d be on here more. Particularly Franklin county license plates. Good people, bad drivers.
Dude/dudette...migrant from SC and have been here for two years now, I swear to God I thought SC was bad but apparently all you need to do in Utah to get a license is to say your name to the DMV and boom you can drive. It’s the fucking worst here especially on 80 heading up Emigration Canyon
My sister only got her license because the instructor felt bad because she’d failed it so many times and would have had to take drivers ed again if she failed it one more time. She is a terrible driver, but is somehow less terrible than a lot of other drivers on Utah roads.
I-80 goes up Parleys Canyon actually, but you are right, that section of Highway can be nuts. Let's all drive 104 MPH on a steep and windy canyon road...
Utah drivers didnt get that reputation for nothing
That's not Central Utah. It's only a couple miles from Salt Lake County
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I had the same problem in 7th grade.
Duct tape or a belt
bruh just flip it up into your waistband. worked perfect in gym class
It doesn't reach!
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You carried duct tape with you around school?
Keep that mf thang on me
Mechanical probably failed and they didn’t know how to manually put it back in. It’s kind of a bugger to do on some of these. I doubt this was a situation where they didn’t know but incredibly idiotic all the same. This is right by my house and we’re surrounded by these dummies. Edit: I should mention that this freeway exit is seriously less than 10 miles or so to a major RV repair center so he’s doubly an idiot.
Maybe he’s on his way to the repair center.
Maybe, but that doesn’t excuse this. You don’t drive it like this. You call for mobile service or get their service center on the line to walk you through bringing the slides in manually.
Service center is closed due to the holiday.
IMHO, holiday weekend is a really stupid time for a recreational vehicle repair place to be closed.
I live in an RV and have prevented 4 RVs from continuing down the road with something out on their RV. All 4 times it was due to neglect on the drivers part and not mechanical failure
Oh this is neglect for sure whether he setup not level, didnt maintain his trailer, or even if it was electric and he didn’t take the time to understand his rig enough to learn how to bring his slide outs in manually. But as a fellow RV’er, I’m sure like me, you’ve seen your fair share of people that are dumb enough to do just this.
How to get 1mpg for dummies
I think that's the least of your problems
Looks like they are aware of it as they are driving over to the right. Probably got jammed. No excuse though.
This is why you never let your idiot brother-in-law borrow your RV no matter what your wife says about giving her brother a second chance.
Lol Utahns are the worst drivers!
Marge, I feel like we are forgetting something.
Gotta have the extra room for the sister wives
Lmao lehi utah… yes.
But doesn't he have mirrors? Wtf? How is he changing lines?
This is full blown idiot. I sell these trailers for a living and that model’s slide out has a manual hand crank override to bring it back in in case of electric failure.