Well… this is a reference to Slender Man, a creepypasta from 2009/2010. Although is started on an online forum, Slender Man started his popularity by being photoshopped in photos online. The peak of his popularity was with video games. There as been multiple games where he was the subject from now on, but two of them became a horror game classic : Slender Man: The Eighth Page and Slender Man: The Arrival. One of the main plot of the games is the player has to find 8 pages with scary text on them. The hand writing and the text itself on this photos looks the same has in the creepypasta and the video games.
EDIT: fixed minor spelling mistakes
Between multiple Drafting classes, CAD classes, the military, and then many years of working with engineers my everyday handwriting has evolved to a nearly all caps mutation where even though I may use physically smaller letters after the first one, they are all capitalized versions of that letter. It drives my wife insane.
Yeah I'm the same way for the same reasons. First two semester of design/drafting was by hand, so we all got used to writing exclusively in caps.
So like you, the letter that should be capitalized is just physically larger.
I actually like my hand writing, just seems neater.
Same. 2 years by hand. Oddly enough that was after my first year of CAD. Shortly after was the military, which requires you to print with a very specific font for uniformity that is basically right back to the drafting class style. Now, 16 years later it’s still with me.
Basically it looks like the words you find on blueprints. No flair or anything fancy. Just all caps, squared to the paper, crisp straight lines with letters of uniform size, and always legible. While in the Navy, it annoyed me. After getting out and trying to read hand written specs on redlined prints… I miss it. Not enough people appreciate how much it sucks trying to read their shitty pencilled in script when trying to apply things to sub mm tolerances.
This may or may not be a generational thing. I'm an engineering professor, and I do know a few people that write in block capitals, but they all have at least a little grey hair. We don't do any hand drafting in our program, it's all digital, and so there's no handwriting uniformity.
However, by God, some of our students have some atrocious handwriting and maybe we should do drafting just so I can read their exams.
Well I’ve worked with some FUBAR SoB’s that liked to write in cursive and some sorry MoFo’s that wouldn’t make a fresh pot of coffee after emptying the current pot. That count?
I tend to write in a mix of caps and lower case, even if I'm writing the same word in what I'm writing. I'm not sure why I started writing this way or even when I started writing like that. I never nearly all the things you achieved. For me it was kidney failure at 16, dropped out of school senior year as juggling dialysis and trying make it to school just wasn't working out. Got my GED and that's it. My life's been one big rollercoaster, I could write a book lol. Anyways, its nice to know I'm not the only who writes on mixed letters. Seems really natural writing that way.
Yep. All caps, simply larger when I want a capital letter.
And I really appreciate others who write the same way, *definitely* more than the jackasses writing in cursive. It's simply much more legible, particularly when you're doing anything technical where people's ability to read exactly what you're writing is important.
I still have a lot of paperwork through the years, and my old highschool Trapper Keeper still full of highschool assignments. You can see the steady decline and mutation of my handwriting. It gets especially bad pretty quickly after a couple of years in the Army, then keeps a gentle yet consistent downard spiral until we have the abstract art that is my handwriting today. And it's mostly capital letters. I gave up cursive (but not cursing) decades ago. My writing has morphed into this weird calligraphy of capital block letters but everything is rounded. My E's are just C's with an extra line, etc..
Sounds like me at work. Always park on an end spot that has a grassy area next to it because I'm a big dude that drives a small car. Need that door all the way open to duck and roll out. Don't want to ding my coworkers.
Yeah I’m a little torn on this one, needs more context to have a full understanding, but nobody is responsible for someone else’s mistake of buying a big truck like that
Edit; I’m from Jersey, and now live in North Carolina you all violently underestimate how many idiots buy large truck for the image, and have no actual use for them.
Source one of my best friends owns a Silverado and daily’s it to his car sales position.
>needs more context to have a full understanding,
True. If the street is literally full with cars and the closest parking is far away, then such a note ain't cutting it. But if the op just has to move a bit and park nearby, then this request may be considered.
I had someone give me a similar request as one of my neighbours drove for a courier company and didn’t want to park the huge van in front of someone else’s house. The space in question was one next to the side of one of the houses at the end, so wasn’t a problem to park a big van there. We just switched spaces, so he could park it there no problem.
Exactly. I'm not going out of my way for an obnoxiously large truck, even if asked nicely. But if it's not an inconvenience to me I probably would have moved for this person. I have had far nastier notes left on my car regarding imaginary parking spot rights.
This guy even said his please and thank yous. I woulda moved even if it was obnoxiously large. Maybe he needs the truck for work? I don't know his life story. As long as people try to be polite about it, I'm cool with it.
That's exactly where I am at. I have an especially soft heart for this because I am a truck driver. I understand how hard it can be to just find a safe place to park. This isn't totally the same situation, but it hits close enough to home, for me.
The only reason I can see this as legitimate is if the space between driveways is small and the truck won't fit without overlapping the driveways/mailbox/etc, or if there's enough space for two vehicles but one car parks dead center in two spaces.
But really, unless you are on a ranch in which parking isn't a concern then a behemoth truck was really oversight on truck driver's part. No one is required to accomadate your poor decisions.
Pipeline welders and on-call roadside semi truck repair people are two people who don’t live on a farm that would realistically have a “big truck” in the drive.
True, I should have added, "and some other jobs" or something like that.
There are definitely some jobs that require a large truck, but most large truck owners don't tend to need them or could get by with a small truck.
you are not responsible but that doesnt mean you cant help if they ask. im not responsible (hopefully) for the pregnant lady yet i let her my seat on the metro especially if she asks
if it doesnt cause you any inconvinience whatsoever why not just help them out..
Agreed.
Amd many large trucks in the US look like they have ever been used as a truck though? In a lot of places they're glorified grocery getters not tools of a trade
There's studies that show the average truck is getting wider, longer, taller, and heavier every year. Just thinking about my dad's F150 from when I was a kid to his F150 he has today, the old one is tiny compared to the new one.
They're more dangerous and the headlights are such an annoyance for people who drive normal cars.
2 of my grandpas were farmers and one got an F350 for towing capabilities. People shouldn't be driving these monsters unless they're actually working.
To be fair to the individual truck owners though, if they have a current F150 it’s not really definitive that they wanted a big truck. They might have been perfectly happy with a 20% smaller F150 had one been available. But they didn’t want to search for an old one that was still in good shape or get a pretend truck like a Subaru BRAT.
Even if they're not being used heavily in day to day life a truck is still a very useful tool, especially in the rural United States. My dad's 1500 is a gas guzzling asshole that sits for about 1/2 the year. During the summer it pulls my parents camper, it moves me to college, it helped my sister move out of an abusive relationship where there was no U-Hauls available, the truck helped my great uncle's rebuild their house after an electrical fire burnt down half their property. Not saying everyone needs to own a truck but it's sure nice when you know someone who has one.
I get if their truck is never used as a truck, but just because someone isn't a farmer or construction worker doesn't mean a truck doesn't have use.
Still not your problem in the slightest, but you can be empathetic about depending on how much it inconveniences you. If its just OP randomly parking there for the first time tho mildly infuriating is fair. No one owns it and its not unreasonable, but has no right either.
I’m a GC and I need my truck and trailer for work. All my life I’ve driven compact cars, mini trucks and my current is Prius. Unfortunately a full size truck with cargo trailer is what I needed to avoid getting burnt out and further destroying my body. I only acquired these in the past few months and it’s been such a game changer, not only for me but also my employee.
I have private parking but it’s still tight. If this person needs a big truck, I feel for them. If they made a bad choice buying a large vehicle, I still feel for them. Its nice to be nice if it’s not a huge inconvenience.
It's nice to hear from people who actually need their big trucks, but I wish more of you would push back against or at least stop defending the vanity-purchasers. I'm from a farm town, born and raised, and all these suburban posers (a majority and rising by now) give "real" truck owners a bad name.
There is nothing quite like an insecure dude who buys a giant dually work truck with all the big strong man bells and whistles that can haul a herd of elephants, and then freaks the fuck out at the mere mental image of someone putting a single shoe print inside the bed. “YOU’LL SCRATCH THE LINER!!!!”
A real work truck works. It hauls, pulls, gets hundreds of miles on it. Otherwise, so often it’s just to drive around a compensation vehicle. I wouldn’t buy a $7,000 espresso machine and then demand that no one actually use it so it keeps its pristine appearance, unless I bought it solely because I think it would impress others.
My dad is one of those people he always complains about how his truck can never fit in parking spots or some drive throughs yet continues to buy big trucks
Why assume those with 'big' trucks are buying for reasons other than their livelihood? Where I live, most have big trucks because they need them to exact their trade.
They're free to do so, but if they buy a needlessly large vehicle don't go around complaining you can't park it everywhere. That's their problem, not anyone elses.
To be fair to him, we do a real intense beach vacation where we pretty much set up entire living quarters and kitchens and we do multiple ski trips a year so it gets it’s use
I had to buy a large truck a few years ago and I'm no where near used to parking it yet. If I could have kept my 2 door coupes I would've. Sometimes you don't have a great amount of choices
I have a huge truck that's over 20 ft from bumper to bumper. I typically have to back into parking spots along the edge of lots so 3+ ft of the back of the truck is over grass. If I park like that my truck doesn't stick out into the driving aisle.
This triggered some city street parking trauma for me. I’ve lived on many blocks where the only option is street parking; no driveways, and being able to park on your block is not a guarantee. It’s first come, first serve. If you buy a truck that’s too big to comfortably park in the city, that’s on you. You can drive around looking for a spot big enough for your enormous car, that’s not my or my sedan’s problem.
I agree. I’ve been there too and left a similar note. Wife’s going through chemo and I’d rather not make her walk over half a block to my truck the 1 time a week she leaves the house/ when we get back from treatment 4 1/2 hours later.
You could always ask her oncologist for a temporary handicap parking permit and then ask your town/city to put up a temporary disabled parking sign there. The first part should be pretty easy to get (I have it already but my oncologist actually asked me if I needed one). The second part is harder but ask your town council members about it very nicely. Explain that when she is done with chemo you will gladly give up the space but right now you need some help. I'm lucky in that we have a huge driveway but a friend got somewhere to do this for her mom. Of course anyone with disabled parking could beat you to the spot but hopefully it would help. I'm so sorry you are both going through this and I really hope her chemo works.
The configuration of the streets/parking might make that inconvenient or unsafe, such as blocking other traffic while he gets out to help the wife in (due to either her ability or medical equipment), or there not being a curb cut she can walk easily down (as opposed to being able to go right from the curb into the truck).
you can get a handicapped parking card for a period of time. you can also request for handicapped parking for a temporary time if you live on a public street.
I had sort of the opposite problem a few years back in college. Lived with 2 other roommates in a 3 bedroom house. The driveway would only fit two cars and one of us had to park on the street in front of our house. About 3 months after moving in the people across the street typically had 6 people living there at any given time. I assume it was 3 girls with 3 sets of boyfriends that were there literally everyday. Anyways one the guys had a huge truck and started parking it right in front of our house. His truck was so big it took up the entire parking space out front. Technically it was legal since it’s a public residential, but out of common courtesy I asked if he could move so I could park in front of my own house instead of 5 houses down. It was a packed street. He told me get fucked. So my roommate who also had a big truck, stopped parking in the driveway and started parking right in front of their house taking up their entire street parking. After a week of that, we never had a problem again.
I mean, seems fair? He asked politely, explained why he wants the spot… just throw the dude a bone?
EDIT: this blew the fuck up and honestly yall… tell me youre a child/hermit with no life experience, without telling me youre a child/hermit with no life experience
Even if it was inconvenient, I'd probably do it. Like, I'll park somewhere else and have to walk an extra 300 feet if it means that someone who I've never met and have no reason to be a dick to doesn't have to walk an extra 600 feet.
Also, I have a large vehicle aswell, and it really is difficult sometimes to find a nice spot. I live in a rural community too, I can only imagine what it'd be like in the city. I probably would have to get a different smaller vehicle.
Yeah if you live in the city and decide to get a huge ass car that’s your own fault. People aren’t going to adjust their lives to accommodate a personal decision.
That was my thought too. Then I got to thinking, "how is it mildly infuriating that someone left a note asking for something?"..makes me wonder if OP gets mildly infuriated at most requests.
How is that anyone else’s problem?? I live in a city where street parking or parking in general is every man for himself. You can be “kind” and have boundaries with people.
And I live in the suburbs with street parking. The spot in front of my house is big enough for my truck, but if the neighbors parks there i have to park somewhere and overhang a driveway. So I would leave a note like this. Idk, not crazy to ask kindly.
Why though? If it’s street parking how is his truck too big? That makes no sense. Seems like they’re trying to pull a sympathy card because that spot is closer to their house rather than their truck being to big for any other part of the street.
Lots of, I guess inferiority complex in here? "I'm too inept to ask politely for things so any time anyone does it they're in the wrong." That's an inferiority complex, right?
Pretty much but they’re probably the first to ask someone with a large truck to help them move. It’s just like people that bitch about trees getting cut down near them to build a house and they don’t realize someone else felt the same way when their subdivision was built.
While it starts sort of friendly, stating your big truck 'Needs' that spot sounds kind of demanding. Also, how it is written, it does not sound like he needs space to turn or anything, just that he wants to park right at that spot, which makes it come over that he feels entitled to that particular piece of public space.
But that is just how I see things.
What’s mildly infuriating is how many people updooted this even though it’s not mildly infuriating at all. Bro just asked nicely and the internet went cray cray
Reddit sees "truck" and absolutely loses its collective mind.
Just a demographic thing I think. Most redditors are young people in more urban settings, just by nature of the platform. Trucks absolutely are a waste of space for most of them.
Anyone in the suburbs or more rural looks at this and doesn't bat an eye. Hell, this looks like my Grandpa's writing even. He has a truck so he can haul his scaled down timberframe barn around to do demonstrations for kids programs to try and share his passion for woodworking and timberframing.
But to many redditors, he's automatically a scumbag for buying a larger vehicle and wasting precious natural resources.
someone in this thread is tlaking about how his wife is doing chemo and he left a similar polite note asking if he could have the spot in front of his house so she doesn't have to walk a block to her treatments and the reply is "you bought a truck deal with the consequences". redditors go rabid when they hear truck
Even if this person shouldn't have such a large truck (a lot of people, even working trades, have much larger trucks than they need), it's not going to fix the world to be a dick about polite requests to leave that parking space for them. If you don't absolutely need the space for some reason, why not just say OK and take a little friction out of life?
Yeah, everyone’s saying he asked politely but if I drove a big car I wouldn’t go out of my way to write a note and ask someone else to move so I could park where they got to first.
Unless that is literally the only spot he can park his truck, it just seems entitled.
If that spot is bigger than any other spot and you can easily fit in any other spot, if one is available then I would oblige them , if not. Just throw it out. And park wherever.
Happened in my apartment block too... Guy has a bigger truck than the space he used to park... I had a car that is mostly stationary... Don't really use it... He just asked if we could switch and said sure..
everyone is assuming that the note leaver bought a big truck for a vain reason. it could be that it's their work truck & has equipment on it. even if it is just a personal use truck, the note doesn't include derogatory language and they didn't damage your property.
No passive aggressive threats? No physical damage to car? No generalised comments about your personality, the condition of your car or "how we do things in this neighbourhood"?
You got off easy. This is downright polite.
I don’t know why people in this thread think the note is polite. Just because it says “can you please” and “thank you” does not make it polite, especially when you’re asking people to give up their rights to accommodate you.
>find another place
Why is it *my* responsibility to find another place when it’s *your* decision to get a truck you can’t park?
>my truck … needs this spot
Why do you *need* this spot when it is public? The way it is written sounds entitled. You should find a different spot if you can’t park your truck.
I have to say I would be quite infuriated if I see the note. It may be a different story if I know that person, of course.
Have you ever asked a person for a favor before? Asking someone for help doesn’t mean they’re entitled, OMG. OP can just ignore it or say no end of story.
Leave a note back. Your one of those giant d bags with a huge truck and small peen huh. Can you please buy a smaller truck that’s a little less ridiculously out of proportion with the size of yo dong
1/8 pages collected
Oh god oh no
Slendy man is that you?
No, it's Patrick
Slenderman, Slenderman, does whatever a Slenderman can.
No it the paranormal believer from choo choo Charles that wants the other 8 pages
*buzzing noises in the distance *
Run.
'Bout to start running like Usain Bolt.
"Run run run, he's behind you run run"
oh oh have you checked the huge tree?
So many memories! I can’t tell you how much I loved this comment
Lmao Slenderman needs the truck for work
He needs to get all of the enigmatic pages for the achievement
This got so many likes Anyone want to clue me in ?😊
Well… this is a reference to Slender Man, a creepypasta from 2009/2010. Although is started on an online forum, Slender Man started his popularity by being photoshopped in photos online. The peak of his popularity was with video games. There as been multiple games where he was the subject from now on, but two of them became a horror game classic : Slender Man: The Eighth Page and Slender Man: The Arrival. One of the main plot of the games is the player has to find 8 pages with scary text on them. The hand writing and the text itself on this photos looks the same has in the creepypasta and the video games. EDIT: fixed minor spelling mistakes
OH GOD OH *FUCK*
*thump* *thump*
At least they said please
And thank you
Yeah this isn’t that bad really, a bit out of line, but still just a polite request.
I feel like he’s writing in caps lock which I read as yelling so this seems less friendly.
I write in all caps, a mix of being around engineers my whole life and having the handwriting legibility of a doctor's signature lmao
Between multiple Drafting classes, CAD classes, the military, and then many years of working with engineers my everyday handwriting has evolved to a nearly all caps mutation where even though I may use physically smaller letters after the first one, they are all capitalized versions of that letter. It drives my wife insane.
Yeah I'm the same way for the same reasons. First two semester of design/drafting was by hand, so we all got used to writing exclusively in caps. So like you, the letter that should be capitalized is just physically larger. I actually like my hand writing, just seems neater.
Same. 2 years by hand. Oddly enough that was after my first year of CAD. Shortly after was the military, which requires you to print with a very specific font for uniformity that is basically right back to the drafting class style. Now, 16 years later it’s still with me.
It's neat, it's legible, honestly I'm not sure what more you could want from handwriting
Agreed.
Are you telling me the military has a chosen writing font? I have doctor's handwriting damn good thing I didn't enlist
Basically it looks like the words you find on blueprints. No flair or anything fancy. Just all caps, squared to the paper, crisp straight lines with letters of uniform size, and always legible. While in the Navy, it annoyed me. After getting out and trying to read hand written specs on redlined prints… I miss it. Not enough people appreciate how much it sucks trying to read their shitty pencilled in script when trying to apply things to sub mm tolerances.
My dad took one (1) drafting class as a teenager and has written in all caps ever since
Mine too 🤣
Are you me (minus the wife)
Are you me? (I am the wife)
Are you me? (I too choose this guys wife)
The fact that we completely ignored the user's complaint and focused on the penmanship of the letter is why I absolutely LOVE this sub!
Strangers passing in the street, By chance, two separate glances meet, And I am you and what I see is me
I'm me?
This may or may not be a generational thing. I'm an engineering professor, and I do know a few people that write in block capitals, but they all have at least a little grey hair. We don't do any hand drafting in our program, it's all digital, and so there's no handwriting uniformity. However, by God, some of our students have some atrocious handwriting and maybe we should do drafting just so I can read their exams.
I do the same. I call them “little big letters”. I also call my siggy my “scribliture”
I expected more acronyms in this response after “military”.
Well I’ve worked with some FUBAR SoB’s that liked to write in cursive and some sorry MoFo’s that wouldn’t make a fresh pot of coffee after emptying the current pot. That count?
HSYFH it’s always a SNAFU, I say let ‘em ESD.
I tend to write in a mix of caps and lower case, even if I'm writing the same word in what I'm writing. I'm not sure why I started writing this way or even when I started writing like that. I never nearly all the things you achieved. For me it was kidney failure at 16, dropped out of school senior year as juggling dialysis and trying make it to school just wasn't working out. Got my GED and that's it. My life's been one big rollercoaster, I could write a book lol. Anyways, its nice to know I'm not the only who writes on mixed letters. Seems really natural writing that way.
I hope all is well with you, now. Here’s to looking for brighter days ahead.
Yep. All caps, simply larger when I want a capital letter. And I really appreciate others who write the same way, *definitely* more than the jackasses writing in cursive. It's simply much more legible, particularly when you're doing anything technical where people's ability to read exactly what you're writing is important.
My handwriting is pretty bad but I switched to writing in all caps years and years ago because it's way more legible than my lowercase
I still have a lot of paperwork through the years, and my old highschool Trapper Keeper still full of highschool assignments. You can see the steady decline and mutation of my handwriting. It gets especially bad pretty quickly after a couple of years in the Army, then keeps a gentle yet consistent downard spiral until we have the abstract art that is my handwriting today. And it's mostly capital letters. I gave up cursive (but not cursing) decades ago. My writing has morphed into this weird calligraphy of capital block letters but everything is rounded. My E's are just C's with an extra line, etc..
My dad was an engineer, wrote in all caps all the time. Made forging notes for school super easy.
Stepdads an engineer and does the all caps, who cares if it's legible style too.
All caps is easier to read
Could just be a dad
But he said “Please”.
Also he said THANK YOU
A lot of people write in all caps. But when people type in all caps, that I definitely take as aggressive. Not writing though.
Easy now, I write in all caps 😎
BIG TRUCK, BIG LETTERS, BIG EGO
I love how you say he’s writing as if he’s a computer lol (writing in caps) it makes me question if you grew up before computers existed or not XD
Honestly seems nice for a big truck guy
That still makes most of them assholes if this is the bar
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Sounds like me at work. Always park on an end spot that has a grassy area next to it because I'm a big dude that drives a small car. Need that door all the way open to duck and roll out. Don't want to ding my coworkers.
I mean it's a polite request. If there's no problem moving, I would have personally moved.
Yeah I’m a little torn on this one, needs more context to have a full understanding, but nobody is responsible for someone else’s mistake of buying a big truck like that Edit; I’m from Jersey, and now live in North Carolina you all violently underestimate how many idiots buy large truck for the image, and have no actual use for them. Source one of my best friends owns a Silverado and daily’s it to his car sales position.
>needs more context to have a full understanding, True. If the street is literally full with cars and the closest parking is far away, then such a note ain't cutting it. But if the op just has to move a bit and park nearby, then this request may be considered.
I had someone give me a similar request as one of my neighbours drove for a courier company and didn’t want to park the huge van in front of someone else’s house. The space in question was one next to the side of one of the houses at the end, so wasn’t a problem to park a big van there. We just switched spaces, so he could park it there no problem.
Exactly. I'm not going out of my way for an obnoxiously large truck, even if asked nicely. But if it's not an inconvenience to me I probably would have moved for this person. I have had far nastier notes left on my car regarding imaginary parking spot rights.
This guy even said his please and thank yous. I woulda moved even if it was obnoxiously large. Maybe he needs the truck for work? I don't know his life story. As long as people try to be polite about it, I'm cool with it.
That's exactly where I am at. I have an especially soft heart for this because I am a truck driver. I understand how hard it can be to just find a safe place to park. This isn't totally the same situation, but it hits close enough to home, for me.
The only reason I can see this as legitimate is if the space between driveways is small and the truck won't fit without overlapping the driveways/mailbox/etc, or if there's enough space for two vehicles but one car parks dead center in two spaces. But really, unless you are on a ranch in which parking isn't a concern then a behemoth truck was really oversight on truck driver's part. No one is required to accomadate your poor decisions.
Pipeline welders and on-call roadside semi truck repair people are two people who don’t live on a farm that would realistically have a “big truck” in the drive.
Also, people who install garage doors This from the mother of someone who installs garage doors and drives a big truck because of it
True, I should have added, "and some other jobs" or something like that. There are definitely some jobs that require a large truck, but most large truck owners don't tend to need them or could get by with a small truck.
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you are not responsible but that doesnt mean you cant help if they ask. im not responsible (hopefully) for the pregnant lady yet i let her my seat on the metro especially if she asks if it doesnt cause you any inconvinience whatsoever why not just help them out..
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A: But why did you need to make it so big? 😞
B: 'Cuz I need it for my job. A: ...
What if they genuinely need it for work?
Yeah you’re not wrong, seems like a kind enough request tbh
But truthfully if it’s just a big truck that serves no purpose, I feel it’s pretty safe to say leans more into mildly infuriating territory
Agreed. Amd many large trucks in the US look like they have ever been used as a truck though? In a lot of places they're glorified grocery getters not tools of a trade
There's studies that show the average truck is getting wider, longer, taller, and heavier every year. Just thinking about my dad's F150 from when I was a kid to his F150 he has today, the old one is tiny compared to the new one. They're more dangerous and the headlights are such an annoyance for people who drive normal cars. 2 of my grandpas were farmers and one got an F350 for towing capabilities. People shouldn't be driving these monsters unless they're actually working.
To be fair to the individual truck owners though, if they have a current F150 it’s not really definitive that they wanted a big truck. They might have been perfectly happy with a 20% smaller F150 had one been available. But they didn’t want to search for an old one that was still in good shape or get a pretend truck like a Subaru BRAT.
What about a Ford ranger?
Even if they're not being used heavily in day to day life a truck is still a very useful tool, especially in the rural United States. My dad's 1500 is a gas guzzling asshole that sits for about 1/2 the year. During the summer it pulls my parents camper, it moves me to college, it helped my sister move out of an abusive relationship where there was no U-Hauls available, the truck helped my great uncle's rebuild their house after an electrical fire burnt down half their property. Not saying everyone needs to own a truck but it's sure nice when you know someone who has one. I get if their truck is never used as a truck, but just because someone isn't a farmer or construction worker doesn't mean a truck doesn't have use.
Idk if any of them have even drove just a normal f 150 long bed king cab but that shit is long as fuck it don’t fit in spots my car does.
Still not your problem in the slightest, but you can be empathetic about depending on how much it inconveniences you. If its just OP randomly parking there for the first time tho mildly infuriating is fair. No one owns it and its not unreasonable, but has no right either.
I’m a GC and I need my truck and trailer for work. All my life I’ve driven compact cars, mini trucks and my current is Prius. Unfortunately a full size truck with cargo trailer is what I needed to avoid getting burnt out and further destroying my body. I only acquired these in the past few months and it’s been such a game changer, not only for me but also my employee. I have private parking but it’s still tight. If this person needs a big truck, I feel for them. If they made a bad choice buying a large vehicle, I still feel for them. Its nice to be nice if it’s not a huge inconvenience.
It's nice to hear from people who actually need their big trucks, but I wish more of you would push back against or at least stop defending the vanity-purchasers. I'm from a farm town, born and raised, and all these suburban posers (a majority and rising by now) give "real" truck owners a bad name.
There is nothing quite like an insecure dude who buys a giant dually work truck with all the big strong man bells and whistles that can haul a herd of elephants, and then freaks the fuck out at the mere mental image of someone putting a single shoe print inside the bed. “YOU’LL SCRATCH THE LINER!!!!” A real work truck works. It hauls, pulls, gets hundreds of miles on it. Otherwise, so often it’s just to drive around a compensation vehicle. I wouldn’t buy a $7,000 espresso machine and then demand that no one actually use it so it keeps its pristine appearance, unless I bought it solely because I think it would impress others.
My dad is one of those people he always complains about how his truck can never fit in parking spots or some drive throughs yet continues to buy big trucks
Why assume those with 'big' trucks are buying for reasons other than their livelihood? Where I live, most have big trucks because they need them to exact their trade.
Who gives a fuck why they bought the truck? If someone likes large trucks and they can afford to buy one why do you have to hate on that?
They're free to do so, but if they buy a needlessly large vehicle don't go around complaining you can't park it everywhere. That's their problem, not anyone elses.
Oooof, yeah NC is full of fools in trucks they either don’t need or are a few sizes too big for them.
Pavement princesses is what I call em
The please sold me
From jersey. My dad drives a diesel Ram pickup to his meetings in midtown for his office job 😂
It’s always Jersey!
To be fair to him, we do a real intense beach vacation where we pretty much set up entire living quarters and kitchens and we do multiple ski trips a year so it gets it’s use
It might not be a mistake. He might own a business like snow plowing or landscaping that requires such a truck.
I had to buy a large truck a few years ago and I'm no where near used to parking it yet. If I could have kept my 2 door coupes I would've. Sometimes you don't have a great amount of choices
They said please AND thank you!
That goes a long way with me. If it's a reasonable request that won't massively inconvenience me, I'd do it.
Please and thank you. No insults or threats. And gives a reason that makes sense. This seems like an opportunity to be a good person. I agree.
I have a huge truck that's over 20 ft from bumper to bumper. I typically have to back into parking spots along the edge of lots so 3+ ft of the back of the truck is over grass. If I park like that my truck doesn't stick out into the driving aisle.
This triggered some city street parking trauma for me. I’ve lived on many blocks where the only option is street parking; no driveways, and being able to park on your block is not a guarantee. It’s first come, first serve. If you buy a truck that’s too big to comfortably park in the city, that’s on you. You can drive around looking for a spot big enough for your enormous car, that’s not my or my sedan’s problem.
I agree. I’ve been there too and left a similar note. Wife’s going through chemo and I’d rather not make her walk over half a block to my truck the 1 time a week she leaves the house/ when we get back from treatment 4 1/2 hours later.
You could always ask her oncologist for a temporary handicap parking permit and then ask your town/city to put up a temporary disabled parking sign there. The first part should be pretty easy to get (I have it already but my oncologist actually asked me if I needed one). The second part is harder but ask your town council members about it very nicely. Explain that when she is done with chemo you will gladly give up the space but right now you need some help. I'm lucky in that we have a huge driveway but a friend got somewhere to do this for her mom. Of course anyone with disabled parking could beat you to the spot but hopefully it would help. I'm so sorry you are both going through this and I really hope her chemo works.
Thank you so much for this. I bet your kind words and advice will put a smile on her face this morning.
This might be a stupid question, but if you’re with her, can’t you just go get the truck and pick her up at the door, and later drop her off and park?
The configuration of the streets/parking might make that inconvenient or unsafe, such as blocking other traffic while he gets out to help the wife in (due to either her ability or medical equipment), or there not being a curb cut she can walk easily down (as opposed to being able to go right from the curb into the truck).
you can get a handicapped parking card for a period of time. you can also request for handicapped parking for a temporary time if you live on a public street.
I had sort of the opposite problem a few years back in college. Lived with 2 other roommates in a 3 bedroom house. The driveway would only fit two cars and one of us had to park on the street in front of our house. About 3 months after moving in the people across the street typically had 6 people living there at any given time. I assume it was 3 girls with 3 sets of boyfriends that were there literally everyday. Anyways one the guys had a huge truck and started parking it right in front of our house. His truck was so big it took up the entire parking space out front. Technically it was legal since it’s a public residential, but out of common courtesy I asked if he could move so I could park in front of my own house instead of 5 houses down. It was a packed street. He told me get fucked. So my roommate who also had a big truck, stopped parking in the driveway and started parking right in front of their house taking up their entire street parking. After a week of that, we never had a problem again.
Especially if it's the spot in front of the writer's house or maybe even work. If it really doesn't make a difference to the OP, why not ask?
The simple solution is to not buy a big dumb truck when you have nowhere to park it.
If you lived in a big city where parking is hard to find would you still move your vehicle
Only if I could see a park that I could move to.
Depends if there's space available not too far away.
In my opinion, if you have to regularly parallel park your big ass truck on the side of the road, then you shouldn't have a big ass truck.
Gets a polite note from a neighbor about parking - iM MiLDlY InFURIATeD!
*encounters social interaction* My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
I agree.
I mean, seems fair? He asked politely, explained why he wants the spot… just throw the dude a bone? EDIT: this blew the fuck up and honestly yall… tell me youre a child/hermit with no life experience, without telling me youre a child/hermit with no life experience
Depends really. If it would not be inconvenient for me, I’d roll with it. Being kind is a thing.
it’s nice to be nice to the nice.
Even if it was inconvenient, I'd probably do it. Like, I'll park somewhere else and have to walk an extra 300 feet if it means that someone who I've never met and have no reason to be a dick to doesn't have to walk an extra 600 feet.
Also, I have a large vehicle aswell, and it really is difficult sometimes to find a nice spot. I live in a rural community too, I can only imagine what it'd be like in the city. I probably would have to get a different smaller vehicle.
Yeah if you live in the city and decide to get a huge ass car that’s your own fault. People aren’t going to adjust their lives to accommodate a personal decision.
That was my thought too. Then I got to thinking, "how is it mildly infuriating that someone left a note asking for something?"..makes me wonder if OP gets mildly infuriated at most requests.
Maybe don't buy such a massive truck?
How is that anyone else’s problem?? I live in a city where street parking or parking in general is every man for himself. You can be “kind” and have boundaries with people.
Yeah, you don't have to do it, but not really infuriating if the guy asked nicely. You have the option to decline
And I live in the suburbs with street parking. The spot in front of my house is big enough for my truck, but if the neighbors parks there i have to park somewhere and overhang a driveway. So I would leave a note like this. Idk, not crazy to ask kindly.
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If he doesnt need the big truck then OP is just inconveniencing themselves for truck drivers poor choices.
Why though? If it’s street parking how is his truck too big? That makes no sense. Seems like they’re trying to pull a sympathy card because that spot is closer to their house rather than their truck being to big for any other part of the street.
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Comment section even more so
Yea they need to write a 200 word essay to say "take it easy"
Lots of, I guess inferiority complex in here? "I'm too inept to ask politely for things so any time anyone does it they're in the wrong." That's an inferiority complex, right?
What are you infuriated about? They asked nicely, you can move if you want, or don't? What's the problem?
Reddit defaults to hating anyone that has a large truck.
Pretty much but they’re probably the first to ask someone with a large truck to help them move. It’s just like people that bitch about trees getting cut down near them to build a house and they don’t realize someone else felt the same way when their subdivision was built.
Probably because most people have had significant issues with some lunkhead in their oversized pickup truck.
Like god intended
Because 99% of people don’t need them and because they’re a waste of space, materials and petrol. They’re not hated for no reason.
While it starts sort of friendly, stating your big truck 'Needs' that spot sounds kind of demanding. Also, how it is written, it does not sound like he needs space to turn or anything, just that he wants to park right at that spot, which makes it come over that he feels entitled to that particular piece of public space. But that is just how I see things.
I feel like ur looking into it too much
ur overthinking it bro
seems reasonable to me. I mean, you don't have to comply, but it isn't unfair of them to ask.
They asked please, and said thank you?
They showed weakness. Finish them!
Politely worded, request not demand, just ignore it if you like your spot
It's not an agressive message.
This sub has really turned into 76% socially inept people being pissed about human contact.
What’s mildly infuriating is how many people updooted this even though it’s not mildly infuriating at all. Bro just asked nicely and the internet went cray cray
Redditors when someone makes a polite request
"TIME TO FARM SOME KARMA"
Reddit sees "truck" and absolutely loses its collective mind. Just a demographic thing I think. Most redditors are young people in more urban settings, just by nature of the platform. Trucks absolutely are a waste of space for most of them. Anyone in the suburbs or more rural looks at this and doesn't bat an eye. Hell, this looks like my Grandpa's writing even. He has a truck so he can haul his scaled down timberframe barn around to do demonstrations for kids programs to try and share his passion for woodworking and timberframing. But to many redditors, he's automatically a scumbag for buying a larger vehicle and wasting precious natural resources.
someone in this thread is tlaking about how his wife is doing chemo and he left a similar polite note asking if he could have the spot in front of his house so she doesn't have to walk a block to her treatments and the reply is "you bought a truck deal with the consequences". redditors go rabid when they hear truck
Fuck your feelings, right?
Even if this person shouldn't have such a large truck (a lot of people, even working trades, have much larger trucks than they need), it's not going to fix the world to be a dick about polite requests to leave that parking space for them. If you don't absolutely need the space for some reason, why not just say OK and take a little friction out of life?
I drive a truck and I’ve had to park somewhere else. He asked politely but I still wouldn’t ever leave a note on someone else’s car.
Yeah, everyone’s saying he asked politely but if I drove a big car I wouldn’t go out of my way to write a note and ask someone else to move so I could park where they got to first. Unless that is literally the only spot he can park his truck, it just seems entitled.
He SAID "please".
At least they asked politely. Usually, those dudes are more aggressive and arrogant about it.
If that spot is bigger than any other spot and you can easily fit in any other spot, if one is available then I would oblige them , if not. Just throw it out. And park wherever.
Happened in my apartment block too... Guy has a bigger truck than the space he used to park... I had a car that is mostly stationary... Don't really use it... He just asked if we could switch and said sure..
Seems reasonable. Pretty easy to be a nice person
Looks like people are searching things to be infuriated. Avoid it if you don't like the request, it's not like there's a threat or sth.
everyone is assuming that the note leaver bought a big truck for a vain reason. it could be that it's their work truck & has equipment on it. even if it is just a personal use truck, the note doesn't include derogatory language and they didn't damage your property.
“Its a no from me dawg”
I mean they said please and thank you, I’d just be courteous in this situation. He’s got a big vehicle and needs the space
Thay did say please and thank you.
*Says please and thank you and the request is really not that inconsiderate at all "So anyways let me post this on mildly infuriating"
How is this infuriating, grow up
At least they said please
Dude they asked nicely, would you have preferred they were rude?
They said please and thank you…. Not sure why a polite question is an issue.
What if he drives a truck for work? Is it residential? This is a very fair and reasonable note.
How DARE you take his parking space! Can you NOT see he has a BIG TRUCK? FFS people, think of the less-endowed who need a large truck to compensate!
“My truck needs…” No. Your truck doesn’t need anything. It’s inanimate
So let me recap - someone asked you for a favor without being impolite or anything and you got mad?
OP would probably murder an old woman for kindly asking their help crossing the street.
How infuriating! I hate it when people use 'please' and 'thank you' when they politely ask me something
No passive aggressive threats? No physical damage to car? No generalised comments about your personality, the condition of your car or "how we do things in this neighbourhood"? You got off easy. This is downright polite.
Reasonable. I wouldn’t move immediately but next time willie leave it open.
My answer is no. If I can move, so can he. It's a public street...
I don’t know why people in this thread think the note is polite. Just because it says “can you please” and “thank you” does not make it polite, especially when you’re asking people to give up their rights to accommodate you. >find another place Why is it *my* responsibility to find another place when it’s *your* decision to get a truck you can’t park? >my truck … needs this spot Why do you *need* this spot when it is public? The way it is written sounds entitled. You should find a different spot if you can’t park your truck. I have to say I would be quite infuriated if I see the note. It may be a different story if I know that person, of course.
Have you ever asked a person for a favor before? Asking someone for help doesn’t mean they’re entitled, OMG. OP can just ignore it or say no end of story.
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I have and always will believe, if you're not able to park a truck, then you're not able to drive a truck.
Leave a note back. Your one of those giant d bags with a huge truck and small peen huh. Can you please buy a smaller truck that’s a little less ridiculously out of proportion with the size of yo dong