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[Hootbro]

I guess different locales, different norms. I know when I lived in South and West Texas, just about every pickup had a hitch, drop hitch, pintle hitch and even a pipe vice attached to a hitch. Walk a Walmart parking lot and you only made the mistake once of not watching and walking into someone's hitch before you learned. Right or wrong or how much jack assery of a parking job, you did not fuck with someone hitch or you had some ranch hand or roughneck to deal with.

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[ShadowsPapa]

If they want to try to squeeze their one ton into tiny spots that's their problem. Parking spots are smaller now, but you also don't need to drive a dually to go shopping or out to eat. Big trucks used to only be for working, not a lifestyle statement.

You tell 'em all that - make sure they listen to you explain to them they shouldn't own what they own.
It's also very possible that they NEED a truck, and it's their only vehicle, not a lifestyle statement like they'd say about our Jeeps.
A contractor friend has to have a truck to pull his work trailer - but can't exactly afford multiple vehicles like you believe they should have.

Wow, the attitudes..........

You own a lifestyle vehicle - and blast them for owning a work vehicle that they drive?
So the farm neighbor here takes his truck in to town to pick up supplies and while there does other shopping and chores, maybe decides to have some breakfast and you believe he should drive all the way back home and get a car instead?

People and their own narrow views - get out a bit and you'll find that sometimes that truck is necessary - and they can't afford another, or, don't want to make multiple trips to town to make you happy.

 

[OVERLORD]

You tell 'em all that - make sure they listen to you explain to them they shouldn't own what they own.
It's also very possible that they NEED a truck, and it's their only vehicle, not a lifestyle statement like they'd say about our Jeeps.
A contractor friend has to have a truck to pull his work trailer - but can't exactly afford multiple vehicles like you believe they should have.

Wow, the attitudes..........

You own a lifestyle vehicle - and blast them for owning a work vehicle that they drive?
So the farm neighbor here takes his truck in to town to pick up supplies and while there does other shopping and chores, maybe decides to have some breakfast and you believe he should drive all the way back home and get a car instead?

People and their own narrow views - get out a bit and you'll find that sometimes that truck is necessary - and they can't afford another, or, don't want to make multiple trips to town to make you happy.

Spot On!

Workers stopping someplace on a lunch break, or on the way to/or from home!

 

[Deleted member 57233]

You tell 'em all that - make sure they listen to you explain to them they shouldn't own what they own.
It's also very possible that they NEED a truck, and it's their only vehicle, not a lifestyle statement like they'd say about our Jeeps.
A contractor friend has to have a truck to pull his work trailer - but can't exactly afford multiple vehicles like you believe they should have.

Wow, the attitudes..........

You own a lifestyle vehicle - and blast them for owning a work vehicle that they drive?
So the farm neighbor here takes his truck in to town to pick up supplies and while there does other shopping and chores, maybe decides to have some breakfast and you believe he should drive all the way back home and get a car instead?

People and their own narrow views - get out a bit and you'll find that sometimes that truck is necessary - and they can't afford another, or, don't want to make multiple trips to town to make you happy.

None of that is anyone's problem but theirs.

At one point all I had was a one ton 18 passenger van. Sometimes you just have to park in a different lot a couple blocks away for those rare occasions you have to drive a ridiculously large vehicle "in to town". That's just the burden of driving an absurdly large vehicle in urban environments.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Spot On!

Workers stopping someplace on a lunch break, or on the way to/or from home!

EXACTLY. I see that a lot at Hu Hot, Pizza Ranch and other places. Several of them pile into a truck and go for lunch.
when they were building the bridge by us last summer, that's what several of them did as well - piled into a truck and went for lunch, others drove to other places for lunch.

And no, you can't always "park blocks away". (not with the killer traffic and highways around Ankeny eateries) Again, I need to get pics of some of these locations. They get a short lunch break, have to drive to lunch, eat, and get back to work. There's no time to drive around for a parking spot.
Some can't see other sides of things.
Some want to decide how others work, live, what they own/drive/need.............

My response might be - well, you sure as hell don't have to park next to my big work truck, either! YOU go park 2 blocks away!

 

[OVERLORD]

EXACTLY. I see that a lot at Hu Hot, Pizza Ranch and other places. Several of them pile into a truck and go for lunch.
when they were building the bridge by us last summer, that's what several of them did as well - piled into a truck and went for lunch, others drove to other places for lunch.

And no, you can't always "park blocks away". (not with the killer traffic and highways around Ankeny eateries) Again, I need to get pics of some of these locations. They get a short lunch break, have to drive to lunch, eat, and get back to work. There's no time to drive around for a parking spot.
Some can't see other sides of things.
Some want to decide how others work, live, what they own/drive/need.............

My response might be - well, you sure as hell don't have to park next to my big work truck, either! YOU go park 2 blocks away!

Assuming someone has the latitude, on a lunch break, to park "Blocks Away".

I WISH my lunch breaks were that long.

Lucky if a working man has time to wash his hands prior to chowin'!

More of a grab, smash food, and get back to work.

 

[Chasm]

The problem with that is they can be perfectly parked, centered between the lines, but the truck is big and the parking spots smaller than they were years ago.

I do not accept that as a reason to not be able to open my door. A person's "ghost trailer" doesn't get toe leave me crawling through the passenger side.
On my motorcycle I once had to remove a guys mirror because he leaned his bike over in between my grip and brake lever. I still had to walk my bike out leaned over.
People just need to stop being assholes, or expect that other are going to be assholes back to them.

My ball mount is usually locked in the receiver

Obviously I can't do anything about the locked ones. The impression I get of you is that you are NOT one of the people parking like an asshole though, so you wouldn't be involved anyway.

 

[Chasm]

explain to them they shouldn't own what they own.

They can own whatever they can afford, they just need to learn to drive and park it, including the regulations governing it.

you did not fuck with someone hitch or you had some ranch hand or roughneck to deal with.

That would then be my next problem to deal with. For some reason that has never been an issue for me...

Fun story: My cousin got rear-ended at a stop light with his hitch in. The guy who hit him got a ticket for that. He got a ticket for the equipment violation.
So there's a chance that I could pull the hitch from someone's illegally parked truck and they get a ticket and an assault charge for attacking me over it. At most I'd get what? Vandalism with no property damage? Maybe a "criminal mischief"?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I do not accept that as a reason to not be able to open my door. A person's "ghost trailer" doesn't get toe leave me crawling through the passenger side.
On my motorcycle I once had to remove a guys mirror because he leaned his bike over in between my grip and brake lever. I still had to walk my bike out leaned over.
People just need to stop being assholes, or expect that other are going to be assholes back to them.


Obviously I can't do anything about the locked ones. The impression I get of you is that you are NOT one of the people parking like an asshole though, so you wouldn't be involved anyway.

I get picky - I've learned the right timing and turning to get centered pretty well in one shot. If it's not possible due to really narrow lanes between the rows of parking spaces, I will back up and re-center.

If I feel there's not enough room after I park next to a big vehicle, I will find a different spot. They were there first. Now, if they are parked like a moron, on the lines, crooked as heck and so on, that's a different matter.

 

[Chasm]

Now, if they are parked like a moron, on the lines, crooked as heck and so on, that's a different matter.

When I was 16-17, I once parked my beat up jacked up Ford over the hood of a Corvette that had parked sideways across the first two spots, pinning him in between me and the low curb that a Vette had no chance of scaling. After that he kept taking up two spots, but he did it out where no one else was parked.

That never works for me though. I park my Fairlane out at the edge of a lot and I come out to it surrounded even though the rest of the lot is empty!

 

[Rusty PW]

Just about every company pick up truck in the gas patch has a hitch on it. All of our company trucks have hitches. Ain't no driver going to remove their hitch just to please some a-hole. I tow about once a week. Sometimes 3 times a week. Sometimes I'll go a month before I tow again. I ain't removing my hitch.

 

[Breadman]

My ball mount is usually locked in the receiver..........

Seems like overkill to lock em up but not familiar with crime in your area.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Just about every company pick up truck in the gas patch has a hitch on it. All of our company trucks have hitches. Ain't no driver going to remove their hitch just to please some a-hole. I tow about once a week. Sometimes 3 times a week. Sometimes I'll go a month before I tow again. I ain't removing my hitch.

In most locations there are no laws. And anyone walking that close is too bloody close.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Seems like overkill to lock em up but not familiar with crime in your area.

Yeah, funny - sort of, but -

Maybe you aren't familiar with the term ball mount?

You lock it in place to prevent theft of the piece, or what's attached to it (like a boat trailer, etc.)

It's a real problem around construction sites, or where you park with your boat in tow.
You pull the pin, slide the ball mount out of the receiver, roll the boat, camper, whatever, around to your truck, insert the ball mount, and drive away with whatever was being towed.
So you lock the ball mount into the receiver, and lock the trailer onto the ball.

 

[Rusty PW]

Seems like overkill to lock em up but not familiar with crime in your area.

They are illegal in Idaho now.

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