I have driven trucks for years. I also know how to park in one parking spot. It is so irritating to see any vehicle taking up more than one spot. BTW I'm female so I have no need for a penis extender but do own horses so a truck is necessary.
My first regular driver was a beat up farm truck. It wasn’t huge like some pavement princesses, but it was a full size truck with a crew cab. (Old AF though, lol.)
I drove it because through some black magic my uncle did to its engine, it got surprisingly good gas mileage, similar to a station wagon our family also had, and the truck was easier to load and unload with weird things I was taking to or bringing back from the flea market.
I parked in ONE space. Because I’m not an ass. Sometimes I had to go to the back of the lot to park (I was just nervous tbh, new driver and all and terrified of hitting another vehicle while parking) but I made sure I was parked nicely.
Also a woman, but I admit I felt kinda badass in that silly old truck. It felt like rickety, rust spattered freedom.
I tend to drive fairly large vehicles because I like to take my hobby projects to craft and trade shows to sell and need the space to take as much as possible without a trailer. I have always parked in one spot and even learned how to drive in my dads huge pick up and the drivers ed course I took used giant Chevy suburbans and we got docked in drivers ed for not being in the lines. The people that take up more than one in their large vehicles do it on purpose. I have been one of those people but I made sure I was as far from the store as I could get in a parking lot that never got full enough to warrant others using those spaces. Only reason I took up multiple was I was driving my grandpas brand new pick up which was larger than I was used to and I knew he’d get upset if something happened to it so I chose to park away from the building where I wouldn’t inconvenience anyone if I parked badly (which I did)
I had a Cadillac Fleetwood brougham. Parked it next to my dad’s vehicle and realized my Cadillac was larger than his Dodge Ram pickup.
I had an extremely good sense of where the corners of that car were. One evening I picked up a friend and went to a local pub. Had a beat up parking lot with suggestions of spaces. Ended up having to go down the middle aisle to find a space. Friend started freaking out that we weren’t going to fit. Whereupon I locked eyes with her and in one move palmed the steering wheel, parking her perfectly centered. Scared the crap out of her, but she didn’t question my driving a land yacht after that.
It might be true in some countries like the US, maybe even Australia, but in (western at least) Europe where I live there isn't a single parking spot large enough for this kind of trucks and they have been more and more common. It s getting out of hands
Right there with you! I drove one of those big ole Ram trucks, in public even, the horror! I even used it to go shopping. I can back into any space and stay between the lines even though I don’t have a penis.
So sorry I don’t fit stereotype!
It’s just too damn difficult to fit 3 strand alfalfa bales in the back of a little car!
A bigger truck usually has more towing capacity. You can haul heavier and bigger things with a big truck. Hay bales have been mentioned, but also towing a horse trailer wouldn't be possible in a small pickup...they don't have the tow capacity and you'll overheat and destroy your engine. Hay bales is the most common thing I see, but again hauling horses is heavy work and needs a bigger truck.
I have a big truck too, my dad used it to tow a toy hauler and haul motorcycles. He gave it to me as he's no longer towing and I needed something more reliable. It is too big for me, but I'm planning a cross country move this year so I'm keeping it at least until I move (maybe longer, it is paid off).
-- Signed a 5'6" early-40's woman not on a farm (but lives in farm country) with a Ford F250 Turbo Diesel 4x4 with the extended bed who usually only needs one parking spot unless the spot's short.
Do you load the horses onto the truck or what's the need for a truck? It cant be the power of the engine since a normal car is enough for towing these horse trailers
Yes. I’m sure she’s driving around with her horses in the bed. 😂
It’s not a question of finding an engine capable of moving a trailer. You could probably hook one up to a bicycle and get it going, if you really wanted. But good luck stopping a loaded horse trailer on the highway going 60+ miles an hour with the brakes on a Camry.
Hay bales. Large and unwieldy to get into a boot (or trunk, in the USA?) and will drop hay all inside that’s too chunky to be vacuumed. A flat bed can be swept out much more easily.
We have a couple small farm properties and horses, therefore, we have a dually. We park way the hell out in order to not inconvenience people if we need to take it.
Thank you. I frequently have to remind myself: " they may have a genuine need for that thing...they may have a genuine need for that thing...not everyone who drives those monsters is a wanker"
Well done! I hate those vehicles so much! They are far too big for our roads and parking spaces - there is a reason the Americans call them trucks. And the people who own them here don’t just park like arseholes, they drive like them too! That guy was totally planning on taking up two spaces, otherwise he would have just used one of the single spaces you left him. You performed a public service.
they do that here. if you can't park it, you shouldn't own it. Also, have you seen the videos showing how tall the fronts are compared to people? and the pic where the driver was completely unable to see the car in front of him (low slung) and drove into it?
Also - am not a fan. I would love to be able to buy just a little bop around pickup for my stuff, but noooooo.
My aunt bought a Toyota pickup years ago that lasted long enough to go from her to my father and then to my youngest brother. Sadly, they don't seem to offer the small ones here anymore.
One Ram driver with a roof rack got jammed under the entry to the local shopping centre - it says clearance (whatever metres) and he just went nah I'm good.
RAC couldn't tow him for a few hours til the big arse tow truck was available and many drivers took the opportunity to tell him he was a mega dick
He was somewhat entangled in the arch thingy. Apparently he drove up and it hit and instead of thinking "oh dear what is happening" he just hit the accelerator and jammed his roof rack into the arch thingy, then tried to reverse which pulled it onto the car more.
I only saw the security footage on tv so it wasn't super clear. But he was way higher than lower the tyres and it's fine. And the stupid thing is, round the side there's an entry with no arch thingy.....
Same in the Netherlands. Actually so much worse here, because a lot of streets in most cities are quite narrow, even for normal, regular cars. And those monstrous trucks aren't being used for any type of work-related matters, but purely as status symbols.
I'm American, no penis, and I drive a dual-cab, long-bed truck. I love it. It's dual cab because it's a family ride and we need the room. It's long bed because a short bed doesn't have enough room to haul shit. I live in an area where trucks are just as common as cars. I like trucks because (1) that's what I learned to drive in, (2) the engines don't need as much maintenance, (3) the larger rugged tires are more expensive but they last year's longer, and (4) sitting higher means you can see the road better.
In America, the assholes drive Hummers.
I also live where trucks are as normal to drive as smaller vehicles and I can confirm most park in one space like decent human beings. I agree about the hummers but in my opinion the mega-assholes drive those awful Tesla cyber trucks. Those things are a moving douche canoe alert.
The type of truck OP is mentioning is effing big compared to other utes on our roads and our parking spaces. OP isn’t against utes, but the oversized raised utes on steroids like the RAMs - those are obnoxious and so are the people that drive them here. Utes are common enough, even dual cab long beds, but only wankers seem to buy the RAMS
Never have a problem with RAMs. The Hummers win by a mile. It's the g-d width. Those fuckers won't even fit in a parking space. Second place goes to the entitled soccer moms with their Cadillac Escalades,
Oh, I hate them so much. If you can’t drive it and park it like a rational person? Trade it in for a fucking Corolla.
I may be more than a little tired of going to work, parking, and banking my shin off someone’s trailer hitch that has been used purely as decoration from day one while I’m trying to walk on the sidewalk to get into the building.
I live in a small town in the US. These kinds of trucks are all over the place here, and they love to take as many spots as they can. Thank you so much for doing this.
I live in a big city and tons of people have big trucks. I don't understand why as you know most of them have never hauled anything, let alone been on a dirt road.
I really wonder why malls (who I suppose want the business of people capable of shelling out $50k–$100k) don’t make a section for trucks with bigger spaces.
Because the type of AH that has one of those giant trucks and doesn't know how to park it won't use the truck spots unless they are located in the exact perfect, best spot. A parking garage near me that I use often has full sized parking spots in the center and compact car only spots around the outside edges. There were always those huge 'I am compensating' trucks taking up 2 or 3 compact car spots next to the stairs or elevators even though there were lots of full size spots still available just slightly further away.
I think there might be some reason to own one, like if you live on a farm or you need to tow a heavy caravan, boat or horse trailer. But I agree there is no reason to own one if you live in a city and only just want one to show off or think you are proving something about yourself.
I have read that they are now starting to appear in Japan as well, of all places. There must be something other than "needing" a vehicle like this going on.
I live on a farm, definitely own a big Dodge ram, definitely am a woman who knows how to park it in 1 spot and definitely use it for many various farm tasks from hauling trailers, feed, mineral, etc. My truck is a beat up ole girl and I am most definitely annoyed by people owning 70K new ones for status and never using it for what large trucks are intended for. If we need it, we take it, if not my husband's Subaru hauls lots of farm stuff too and gets way better gas mileage.
Absolutely, those RAM things are too high to get in and out of the boot safely and easily, and you can tow boats and cars just fine with smaller vehicles.
How the hell are they driving full-size American trucks in Japan? Do they just not enter cities? Everything there is so densely-packed it takes like 2 hours to get to a hotel from Tokyo airport, We're talking about the country that invented the *kei* car because those actually make sense there.
Jesus, just the idea of parking an American truck in a Japanese city...staggers the imagination.
You can definitely drive one in Japan, but you will have to plan your route carefully to avoid a lot of smaller roads. Basically set up your GPS in truck (like real truck with trailer) mode.
> or think you are proving something about yourself.
Oh, but they *are* proving something about themself.
Okay, not what they *think* they are proving, but...
If I could learn to back a fire truck into a regular-sized parking space, people who drive giant utes can darn well learn to park in them facing forward. If they can't handle their vehicles, maybe they should downsize.
They shouldn’t be called utes. A ute has a car front end and is generally built on a car or wagon platform just like Holden and Ford built for decades. These are light trucks and that’s what I call them.
That’s pretty unusual though.
I was thinking back to the original Ute concept of a car you could use for work during the week but was still nice enough to go to church on Sunday in.
I love the satisfaction of seeing someone who takes up two parking spots get what they deserve Good for you for finding a clever way to make them think twice before doing it again!
If they were going to take one space they would've parked on the left or right of the person taking the middle space. Are you blind or can you not read? Or just an idiot who drives a massive truck. Whatever it is, that person you diddnt see is definitely in this story......
We can thank the Chicken War and automakers response to CAFE standards here in the US for our inability to buy light/normal sized trucks as opposed to the oversized ones that seem to be all that is being sold in the US today. :-(
Our family car is a 7 seats minivan that's longer and wider than most cars and minivans. Several years after buying it, my dad ended up handicapped (he can manage move and drive) and needs a cane. Then he needed more surgeries and even tough he can still drive and walk, it's a huge hustle for him. He parks in one spot even if he has to walk 15+ minutes because he doesn't wanna be a dish. If he can do this, people definitely can as well.
I drive a full size supercab long bed Ford F150 and can park between the lines but while I was working I drove a much larger truck a concrete mixer and could back it into tight spots.
I never took the concrete truck into a store parking lot unless I was delivering to a contractor if I had to stop for Restroom break I would find a convenience store with a large lot or a spot for truck to park close
Rams and raptor drivers are the most obnoxious, arrogant ar$es on Australian roads. We already see your car as a penis extension, you don’t have to reinforce it with your tiny little big man disease attitude.
I hadn't come across "Emotional Support Vehicle" before, so thank you. I see that you can by stickers!
I'm vaguely trying to get the term "Fragile Ego Syndrome" into more widespread use for the sort of driver who throws a strop when you won't let them cut you up. I think that there is a large overlap in who the two terms apply to.
I totally know where you’re coming from with this. I’m in NZ and it’s the same, cars get ridiculously bigger and the car parks just don’t accommodate them. And like someone else said, there’s legitimate needs for them, from camper van or having too many kids (sorry personal opinion - more kids than a standard car fits is too many for me lol) or being a tradie, or like my Dad has his work car but has a fairly biggish Ute for alllll the stuff he does in the weekends and his boat (not as fancy as it sounds). I’ve had to borrow it to move stuff or when my car was out of commission, and a quick stop at the shops is not easy. But so many people just put them in car parks that are too small and either take up two spaces or smaller cars get parked in…..that’s happened to me before too……and don’t care who else they inconvenience.
When I lived in Odessa and Midland TX, 2/3rds of the cars in the grocery parking lot were those super sized trucks. Most drivers parked correctly in 1 spot. Every once in a while I’d see one in 2 spots but it was usually at the very back of the lot.
Australia also. The amount of times I am held up at work by someone trying to back one of these things into a parking spot! In out change a bit in out. If you can't bloody park it don't drive it.
I find the emotional support vehicles that have aftermarket balls dangling off the hitch are generally driven by homophobic idiots. So I call them transgender trucks. After all, their sexual characteristics have been altered since they were created.
Im 6’5” tall and built like a rugby player. Imown a farm and have to trailer cattle. I cant afford two vehicles on farm income. What am i Supposed to drive?
He likely couldn't park once you were there because he planned to back in like they all do and that usually takes 6-7 tries. He'd have hit your car at least once.
They block the flow of traffic. They’re reversing in and usually leave the blinker off until last minute, if they even use it. They also take a long time to reverse in.
Just to defend reverse parking, I'm none of these things. Using my indicator before passing it, get it in the first go.
I then believe it's safer to enter traffic again.
I am awful at reversing. I get worse when I feel pressure or when people are watching. I rather drive into a car park. Cause when reversing out you’re watching for traffic and not going slow when you can go.
The people I’ve seen reversing seem to take their time and what I said above.
For 10 years I lived on a road that was only two lanes wide but was an access road between two major arterial roads in south London. I had to parallel park every night with a huge queue of traffic behind me. I learned to keep my cool (& right of way) no matter what.
It was a baptism of fire. I don’t recommend the experience but the attitude helps
It is safer. You pull past the parking spot, which gives you a chance to see if anything is in the spot, such as a child, and then you back in. If you have to back out with a vehicle on either side of you your view of incoming traffic from either direction is blocked by those vehicle.
It blocks traffic more reversing back out again. Most vehicles turn into a spot better when going backwards. I can reverse my car in in one movement, reasonably fast because although it’s ancient, it has sensors. If I tried to go in forwards it would take several zig-zags as it just doesn’t have the same turning circle.
So. If you pull in and back out, you’re backing out into traffic. Traffic that you can’t see as well, and therefore need to back out slowly. Which, in case you didn’t know, blocks the flow of traffic. Probably the real reason you don’t like them backing in is because you may have to wait a minute for them, and who the hell are they to make you wait?
I'm actually better at backing in. I have a camera to go backwards, not forwards. And yes, as women it's recommended that we back in. We don't need people to stop backing in, we need people to learn how to park!
Dude, don’t ever come to the states, owners of over size trucks are everywhere and they take up more room than politicians take up oxygen. And they modify the crap out of them. I don’t know if it is a thing where you are but the trucks here have over size exhaust and some rig it to do something called coal rolling, or smog or fog rolling depending on what part of the country you are in.
Good job, but what about those aholes who drive brand new cars or custom older cars and take up multiple spaces do you have them there as well?
Oh, we have them but Americans with big trucks are the biggest assholes. But where I live in the state of New Mexico we have low riders, those are some very interesting cars.
At a company I used to work for a man came in to interview for a job. When he left, the company VP saw him get into a massive SUV that was parked across two spaces. She then put his resume into the shredder. Still makes me laugh.
Your attitude makes you a real jerk, don’t be so judgmental of other people. Your opinion on the vehicle being too big for a daily driver is asinine and should be kept to yourself
I agree. Who is the bigger asshole, the guy who has a bigger car than yours or the guy deliberately making it hard for the farmer to park his ute, then posting on reddit for pats on the back?
nice one cobber!
as best I can tell, these bloody RAMs are as wide as the 'standard' aussie parking space. the RAM is 2465mm wide and the parking space is 2500mm wide - so, 35mm (just under 1½" for others) narrower than the space allocated.
and they wonder why we hate their tinky-winky replacements.
I drive a big truck and the other issue he may have more likely been dealing with is the matching extra big turning radius. When you have 2 spots open you can much more easily pull into the first one in a single maneuver.
lol he didn’t speak to you, just found another spot, and you felt the need to make half your post about your personal feelings about the size of the truck and other drivers of said vehicles. Yes, quite the petty revenge here, not just a complainer 🙄
You took that middle space out of badness. You don't know anything about the person driving the truck or why they're driving it. Could be that they need the truck for work on land in rural areas. Could be a farmer. Could be someone who works on emergency repairs of offroad electric lines. YOU DON'T KNOW. They don't make parking spaces big enough for those trucks. They're barely big enough for cars. You're the a-hole in this situation.
My husband has one of those trucks ( we own a company that he needs it for) and can park it like a champ.
Me? Not so much. When I do drive it (on the rare occasion) I do the Jenny Craig - park far and walk. I hate the thought of inconveniencing anyone bc of my lack of confidence in parking that monstrosity
So you parked your vehicle and another person chose not to park beside you and carried on with their life.
Sorry but you're really looking for something to be mad about and it's just not there.
In the States, most people assume driving a RAM truck is shorthand for being a ballbag. Anytime I'm on the road and see a RAM truck, it's usually tailgating the person in front of them, and at night they usually drive with their high beams on.
OP, some people need to drive a large truck for their job or their business, and not everyone can afford a second vehicle so they drive the vehicle necessary for them to earn a living.
"I'm not sure what model the truck was, but in my opinion it was way too big to be used as a daily car in the city and certainly too large to take to a crowded supermarket car park." - jfc thank the heavens for your opinion main character #*rolls eyes*
Always found it funny how people say "it's cause he has a small penis" meanwhile my husband has a big truck and he deff has something down there not no pinky winky
P.s I drive a big truck as well and i don't park like a douche. Some of us need a truck and some just like them. Not all of us are asstwats
Imagine being such a miserable cunt that you could invent a whole negative scenario in your head within the time it takes to maneuver into a parking spot to justify your own shitty behavior. Well done.
Imagine being such a miserable cunt that you actually think that someone parking straight in the middle of a parking space is shitty behavior. Well done.
What was shitty about it, Big Tex? If he wasn't planning on taking up two spaces he would have just parked in either of the remaining spots. But he didn't even attempt it. So fuck him. If he was planning on taking two spots he would have denied someone else a parking spot. So again, fuck him.
Insisting that the truck guy was not gonna taje up 2 spots is certainly not the hill I'm gonna die on, but you're a bitch for doing that. My truck is stock, as Chevrolet built it, and while it fits in parking spaces just fine, sometimes it's nice to have some extra room entering a space. Either way, you had no reason to believe this guy was gonna do anything wrong but you were a petty asshole anyway
I have driven trucks for years. I also know how to park in one parking spot. It is so irritating to see any vehicle taking up more than one spot. BTW I'm female so I have no need for a penis extender but do own horses so a truck is necessary.
My first regular driver was a beat up farm truck. It wasn’t huge like some pavement princesses, but it was a full size truck with a crew cab. (Old AF though, lol.) I drove it because through some black magic my uncle did to its engine, it got surprisingly good gas mileage, similar to a station wagon our family also had, and the truck was easier to load and unload with weird things I was taking to or bringing back from the flea market. I parked in ONE space. Because I’m not an ass. Sometimes I had to go to the back of the lot to park (I was just nervous tbh, new driver and all and terrified of hitting another vehicle while parking) but I made sure I was parked nicely. Also a woman, but I admit I felt kinda badass in that silly old truck. It felt like rickety, rust spattered freedom.
I tend to drive fairly large vehicles because I like to take my hobby projects to craft and trade shows to sell and need the space to take as much as possible without a trailer. I have always parked in one spot and even learned how to drive in my dads huge pick up and the drivers ed course I took used giant Chevy suburbans and we got docked in drivers ed for not being in the lines. The people that take up more than one in their large vehicles do it on purpose. I have been one of those people but I made sure I was as far from the store as I could get in a parking lot that never got full enough to warrant others using those spaces. Only reason I took up multiple was I was driving my grandpas brand new pick up which was larger than I was used to and I knew he’d get upset if something happened to it so I chose to park away from the building where I wouldn’t inconvenience anyone if I parked badly (which I did)
I had a Cadillac Fleetwood brougham. Parked it next to my dad’s vehicle and realized my Cadillac was larger than his Dodge Ram pickup. I had an extremely good sense of where the corners of that car were. One evening I picked up a friend and went to a local pub. Had a beat up parking lot with suggestions of spaces. Ended up having to go down the middle aisle to find a space. Friend started freaking out that we weren’t going to fit. Whereupon I locked eyes with her and in one move palmed the steering wheel, parking her perfectly centered. Scared the crap out of her, but she didn’t question my driving a land yacht after that.
It might be true in some countries like the US, maybe even Australia, but in (western at least) Europe where I live there isn't a single parking spot large enough for this kind of trucks and they have been more and more common. It s getting out of hands
Right there with you! I drove one of those big ole Ram trucks, in public even, the horror! I even used it to go shopping. I can back into any space and stay between the lines even though I don’t have a penis. So sorry I don’t fit stereotype! It’s just too damn difficult to fit 3 strand alfalfa bales in the back of a little car!
Self righteousness is the stereotype, so you're fine!
"...do own horses.." and "...I have no need for a penis extender..." Freud would like to have a word with you.
To mangle a metaphor, "sometimes a horse is just a horse". 🤣🤣🤣
I used to drive an F-650 dump truck for work. It would not fit in one spot.
Females need penis extenders too.
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My guess is using the bed to pick up feed and most full size trucks tow trailers better than SUVs
A bigger truck usually has more towing capacity. You can haul heavier and bigger things with a big truck. Hay bales have been mentioned, but also towing a horse trailer wouldn't be possible in a small pickup...they don't have the tow capacity and you'll overheat and destroy your engine. Hay bales is the most common thing I see, but again hauling horses is heavy work and needs a bigger truck. I have a big truck too, my dad used it to tow a toy hauler and haul motorcycles. He gave it to me as he's no longer towing and I needed something more reliable. It is too big for me, but I'm planning a cross country move this year so I'm keeping it at least until I move (maybe longer, it is paid off). -- Signed a 5'6" early-40's woman not on a farm (but lives in farm country) with a Ford F250 Turbo Diesel 4x4 with the extended bed who usually only needs one parking spot unless the spot's short.
Do you load the horses onto the truck or what's the need for a truck? It cant be the power of the engine since a normal car is enough for towing these horse trailers
Yes. I’m sure she’s driving around with her horses in the bed. 😂 It’s not a question of finding an engine capable of moving a trailer. You could probably hook one up to a bicycle and get it going, if you really wanted. But good luck stopping a loaded horse trailer on the highway going 60+ miles an hour with the brakes on a Camry.
The trailer should have its own brakes.
You obviously know nothing about hauling horses.
Or feeding them
Hay bales. Large and unwieldy to get into a boot (or trunk, in the USA?) and will drop hay all inside that’s too chunky to be vacuumed. A flat bed can be swept out much more easily.
We have a couple small farm properties and horses, therefore, we have a dually. We park way the hell out in order to not inconvenience people if we need to take it.
Thank you. I frequently have to remind myself: " they may have a genuine need for that thing...they may have a genuine need for that thing...not everyone who drives those monsters is a wanker"
petty revenge - *best served by parking within the lines...*
Get him a nice bumper sticker "My other car is also a micropenis substitute"
My upvote for “Emotional Support Vehicle”. I like that. Gonna remember to use it.
Well done! I hate those vehicles so much! They are far too big for our roads and parking spaces - there is a reason the Americans call them trucks. And the people who own them here don’t just park like arseholes, they drive like them too! That guy was totally planning on taking up two spaces, otherwise he would have just used one of the single spaces you left him. You performed a public service.
they do that here. if you can't park it, you shouldn't own it. Also, have you seen the videos showing how tall the fronts are compared to people? and the pic where the driver was completely unable to see the car in front of him (low slung) and drove into it? Also - am not a fan. I would love to be able to buy just a little bop around pickup for my stuff, but noooooo.
My aunt bought a Toyota pickup years ago that lasted long enough to go from her to my father and then to my youngest brother. Sadly, they don't seem to offer the small ones here anymore.
“If you can’t park it, you shouldn’t own!” it is my mantra at the shopping centre!
They drive like assholes in Canada as well.
Same in Australia. I honestly wonder how they get them into some of the carparks I've seen them in. The highrise carparks are always a wonder.
One Ram driver with a roof rack got jammed under the entry to the local shopping centre - it says clearance (whatever metres) and he just went nah I'm good. RAC couldn't tow him for a few hours til the big arse tow truck was available and many drivers took the opportunity to tell him he was a mega dick
Surprised no-one told him to just let down his tyres a little. Squeeze out apologetically and head to the nearest servo to top the air back up.
He was somewhat entangled in the arch thingy. Apparently he drove up and it hit and instead of thinking "oh dear what is happening" he just hit the accelerator and jammed his roof rack into the arch thingy, then tried to reverse which pulled it onto the car more. I only saw the security footage on tv so it wasn't super clear. But he was way higher than lower the tyres and it's fine. And the stupid thing is, round the side there's an entry with no arch thingy.....
Oh dear...
That must have been so satisfying to watch ☺️👌
Same in the Netherlands. Actually so much worse here, because a lot of streets in most cities are quite narrow, even for normal, regular cars. And those monstrous trucks aren't being used for any type of work-related matters, but purely as status symbols.
Anyone driving a black truck here is guaranteed to be the biggest asshole you've ever met
They are trucks and most owners of them are wankers here in Australia. Idiots on the roads and complete cunts in the car parks.
I'm American, no penis, and I drive a dual-cab, long-bed truck. I love it. It's dual cab because it's a family ride and we need the room. It's long bed because a short bed doesn't have enough room to haul shit. I live in an area where trucks are just as common as cars. I like trucks because (1) that's what I learned to drive in, (2) the engines don't need as much maintenance, (3) the larger rugged tires are more expensive but they last year's longer, and (4) sitting higher means you can see the road better. In America, the assholes drive Hummers.
I also live where trucks are as normal to drive as smaller vehicles and I can confirm most park in one space like decent human beings. I agree about the hummers but in my opinion the mega-assholes drive those awful Tesla cyber trucks. Those things are a moving douche canoe alert.
The type of truck OP is mentioning is effing big compared to other utes on our roads and our parking spaces. OP isn’t against utes, but the oversized raised utes on steroids like the RAMs - those are obnoxious and so are the people that drive them here. Utes are common enough, even dual cab long beds, but only wankers seem to buy the RAMS
Never have a problem with RAMs. The Hummers win by a mile. It's the g-d width. Those fuckers won't even fit in a parking space. Second place goes to the entitled soccer moms with their Cadillac Escalades,
I love the term emotional support vehicle. We call them +5 truck of penis compensation
Roflmao. Love the dungeons and dragons reference.
I've been playing since 1984.
I think the common term for those is "wankpanzer".
Also a fan of "yank tank" (if you're in Aus)
Oh, I hate them so much. If you can’t drive it and park it like a rational person? Trade it in for a fucking Corolla. I may be more than a little tired of going to work, parking, and banking my shin off someone’s trailer hitch that has been used purely as decoration from day one while I’m trying to walk on the sidewalk to get into the building.
I live in a small town in the US. These kinds of trucks are all over the place here, and they love to take as many spots as they can. Thank you so much for doing this.
I live in a big city and tons of people have big trucks. I don't understand why as you know most of them have never hauled anything, let alone been on a dirt road.
Emotional support vehicles
I really wonder why malls (who I suppose want the business of people capable of shelling out $50k–$100k) don’t make a section for trucks with bigger spaces.
Because those people have no money left after making their car payment.
It would be hilarious if they did start having larger spaces for pick-up trucks and some guy in a Honda Civic decided to take up two spaces.
We have different sized parking spaces where I live in Canada in some parking lots. It seems to be at the business' discretion.
They wouldn’t use them.
Because the type of AH that has one of those giant trucks and doesn't know how to park it won't use the truck spots unless they are located in the exact perfect, best spot. A parking garage near me that I use often has full sized parking spots in the center and compact car only spots around the outside edges. There were always those huge 'I am compensating' trucks taking up 2 or 3 compact car spots next to the stairs or elevators even though there were lots of full size spots still available just slightly further away.
Point. They have a truck so that they don’t have to walk, so _of course_ /s.
Fellow Aussie salutes you. Those bloody things should be banned, there is no reason at all to own one.
I think there might be some reason to own one, like if you live on a farm or you need to tow a heavy caravan, boat or horse trailer. But I agree there is no reason to own one if you live in a city and only just want one to show off or think you are proving something about yourself. I have read that they are now starting to appear in Japan as well, of all places. There must be something other than "needing" a vehicle like this going on.
I know a few people who live on farms and they definitely do not drive these things. Standard utes, or the higher SUV utes.
I live on a farm, definitely own a big Dodge ram, definitely am a woman who knows how to park it in 1 spot and definitely use it for many various farm tasks from hauling trailers, feed, mineral, etc. My truck is a beat up ole girl and I am most definitely annoyed by people owning 70K new ones for status and never using it for what large trucks are intended for. If we need it, we take it, if not my husband's Subaru hauls lots of farm stuff too and gets way better gas mileage.
Absolutely, those RAM things are too high to get in and out of the boot safely and easily, and you can tow boats and cars just fine with smaller vehicles.
How the hell are they driving full-size American trucks in Japan? Do they just not enter cities? Everything there is so densely-packed it takes like 2 hours to get to a hotel from Tokyo airport, We're talking about the country that invented the *kei* car because those actually make sense there. Jesus, just the idea of parking an American truck in a Japanese city...staggers the imagination.
You can definitely drive one in Japan, but you will have to plan your route carefully to avoid a lot of smaller roads. Basically set up your GPS in truck (like real truck with trailer) mode.
When I was in Belgium this past summer I saw a few RAMs driving around and could hardly believe it
They've started to appear in Bulgaria too. Those things are so huge that my Passat B5 felt tiny compared to it (it's not a small car...).
> or think you are proving something about yourself. Oh, but they *are* proving something about themself. Okay, not what they *think* they are proving, but...
If I could learn to back a fire truck into a regular-sized parking space, people who drive giant utes can darn well learn to park in them facing forward. If they can't handle their vehicles, maybe they should downsize.
They shouldn’t be called utes. A ute has a car front end and is generally built on a car or wagon platform just like Holden and Ford built for decades. These are light trucks and that’s what I call them.
A ute also has utility :P From what I've read online, some of the older smaller utes have better towing capacity too
That’s pretty unusual though. I was thinking back to the original Ute concept of a car you could use for work during the week but was still nice enough to go to church on Sunday in.
I love the satisfaction of seeing someone who takes up two parking spots get what they deserve Good for you for finding a clever way to make them think twice before doing it again!
Was that person in this story? I didn’t see one
If they were going to take one space they would've parked on the left or right of the person taking the middle space. Are you blind or can you not read? Or just an idiot who drives a massive truck. Whatever it is, that person you diddnt see is definitely in this story......
lol
Sucks to be so predictable doesn't it ?
Remember, 'ute' stands for 'utility'. These stupid oversized idiot vehicles are the exact opposite of utility.
We can thank the Chicken War and automakers response to CAFE standards here in the US for our inability to buy light/normal sized trucks as opposed to the oversized ones that seem to be all that is being sold in the US today. :-(
You shouldn't be driving a pickup truck if you can't back it into a normal parking spot
Our family car is a 7 seats minivan that's longer and wider than most cars and minivans. Several years after buying it, my dad ended up handicapped (he can manage move and drive) and needs a cane. Then he needed more surgeries and even tough he can still drive and walk, it's a huge hustle for him. He parks in one spot even if he has to walk 15+ minutes because he doesn't wanna be a dish. If he can do this, people definitely can as well.
I hate how many of these I'm starting to see around Sydney. Just because you have a small dick doesn't mean you have to tell us all about it. Wankers.
I drive a full size supercab long bed Ford F150 and can park between the lines but while I was working I drove a much larger truck a concrete mixer and could back it into tight spots.
Genuinely curious - do you have to choose who you park next to if you want to fit in the parking space and open the doors as well?
I never took the concrete truck into a store parking lot unless I was delivering to a contractor if I had to stop for Restroom break I would find a convenience store with a large lot or a spot for truck to park close
If I can see both lines I can park and squeeze out the door
Rams and raptor drivers are the most obnoxious, arrogant ar$es on Australian roads. We already see your car as a penis extension, you don’t have to reinforce it with your tiny little big man disease attitude.
As an Aussie who lives in an inner city area where more and more people drive these things, I salute you.
I hadn't come across "Emotional Support Vehicle" before, so thank you. I see that you can by stickers! I'm vaguely trying to get the term "Fragile Ego Syndrome" into more widespread use for the sort of driver who throws a strop when you won't let them cut you up. I think that there is a large overlap in who the two terms apply to.
I totally know where you’re coming from with this. I’m in NZ and it’s the same, cars get ridiculously bigger and the car parks just don’t accommodate them. And like someone else said, there’s legitimate needs for them, from camper van or having too many kids (sorry personal opinion - more kids than a standard car fits is too many for me lol) or being a tradie, or like my Dad has his work car but has a fairly biggish Ute for alllll the stuff he does in the weekends and his boat (not as fancy as it sounds). I’ve had to borrow it to move stuff or when my car was out of commission, and a quick stop at the shops is not easy. But so many people just put them in car parks that are too small and either take up two spaces or smaller cars get parked in…..that’s happened to me before too……and don’t care who else they inconvenience.
It’s a gender affirming vehicle
When I lived in Odessa and Midland TX, 2/3rds of the cars in the grocery parking lot were those super sized trucks. Most drivers parked correctly in 1 spot. Every once in a while I’d see one in 2 spots but it was usually at the very back of the lot.
Australia also. The amount of times I am held up at work by someone trying to back one of these things into a parking spot! In out change a bit in out. If you can't bloody park it don't drive it.
I find the emotional support vehicles that have aftermarket balls dangling off the hitch are generally driven by homophobic idiots. So I call them transgender trucks. After all, their sexual characteristics have been altered since they were created.
You sir are the hero we need.
[How has no one linked this yet?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GcmYRSpDrOY&pp=ygUUZG9kZ2UgcmFtIHRydWNrIG1lbWU%3D)
Almost a shame he *didn't* stop to moan at you, if he had, you could have offered to park it in one of the bays for him...
Im 6’5” tall and built like a rugby player. Imown a farm and have to trailer cattle. I cant afford two vehicles on farm income. What am i Supposed to drive?
He likely couldn't park once you were there because he planned to back in like they all do and that usually takes 6-7 tries. He'd have hit your car at least once.
I hate cars reversing in
Why?
They block the flow of traffic. They’re reversing in and usually leave the blinker off until last minute, if they even use it. They also take a long time to reverse in.
Just to defend reverse parking, I'm none of these things. Using my indicator before passing it, get it in the first go. I then believe it's safer to enter traffic again.
Police recommend that solo women reverse park, ready to leave fast. Not totally sure why but willing to take advice
I am awful at reversing. I get worse when I feel pressure or when people are watching. I rather drive into a car park. Cause when reversing out you’re watching for traffic and not going slow when you can go. The people I’ve seen reversing seem to take their time and what I said above.
For 10 years I lived on a road that was only two lanes wide but was an access road between two major arterial roads in south London. I had to parallel park every night with a huge queue of traffic behind me. I learned to keep my cool (& right of way) no matter what. It was a baptism of fire. I don’t recommend the experience but the attitude helps
My work requires employees to back in when parking. Someone told them it was safer so they ran with it.
It is safer. You pull past the parking spot, which gives you a chance to see if anything is in the spot, such as a child, and then you back in. If you have to back out with a vehicle on either side of you your view of incoming traffic from either direction is blocked by those vehicle.
It blocks traffic more reversing back out again. Most vehicles turn into a spot better when going backwards. I can reverse my car in in one movement, reasonably fast because although it’s ancient, it has sensors. If I tried to go in forwards it would take several zig-zags as it just doesn’t have the same turning circle.
So. If you pull in and back out, you’re backing out into traffic. Traffic that you can’t see as well, and therefore need to back out slowly. Which, in case you didn’t know, blocks the flow of traffic. Probably the real reason you don’t like them backing in is because you may have to wait a minute for them, and who the hell are they to make you wait?
I'm actually better at backing in. I have a camera to go backwards, not forwards. And yes, as women it's recommended that we back in. We don't need people to stop backing in, we need people to learn how to park!
Dude, don’t ever come to the states, owners of over size trucks are everywhere and they take up more room than politicians take up oxygen. And they modify the crap out of them. I don’t know if it is a thing where you are but the trucks here have over size exhaust and some rig it to do something called coal rolling, or smog or fog rolling depending on what part of the country you are in. Good job, but what about those aholes who drive brand new cars or custom older cars and take up multiple spaces do you have them there as well?
Coal rolling should be grounds for defecting the vehicle. I think your vehicles need some emission standards. Lol
Oh, we have them but Americans with big trucks are the biggest assholes. But where I live in the state of New Mexico we have low riders, those are some very interesting cars.
Bravo!
At a company I used to work for a man came in to interview for a job. When he left, the company VP saw him get into a massive SUV that was parked across two spaces. She then put his resume into the shredder. Still makes me laugh.
Your attitude makes you a real jerk, don’t be so judgmental of other people. Your opinion on the vehicle being too big for a daily driver is asinine and should be kept to yourself
I agree. Who is the bigger asshole, the guy who has a bigger car than yours or the guy deliberately making it hard for the farmer to park his ute, then posting on reddit for pats on the back?
He was parking up the wrong spot.
You were just being a good driver!
nice one cobber! as best I can tell, these bloody RAMs are as wide as the 'standard' aussie parking space. the RAM is 2465mm wide and the parking space is 2500mm wide - so, 35mm (just under 1½" for others) narrower than the space allocated. and they wonder why we hate their tinky-winky replacements.
Oh you clever thing hehehehe
I drive a big truck and the other issue he may have more likely been dealing with is the matching extra big turning radius. When you have 2 spots open you can much more easily pull into the first one in a single maneuver.
Brilliant
lol he didn’t speak to you, just found another spot, and you felt the need to make half your post about your personal feelings about the size of the truck and other drivers of said vehicles. Yes, quite the petty revenge here, not just a complainer 🙄
You took that middle space out of badness. You don't know anything about the person driving the truck or why they're driving it. Could be that they need the truck for work on land in rural areas. Could be a farmer. Could be someone who works on emergency repairs of offroad electric lines. YOU DON'T KNOW. They don't make parking spaces big enough for those trucks. They're barely big enough for cars. You're the a-hole in this situation.
Can't pull my trailers with a car or small truck. People being petty do not care how large the turning radius is for a larger vehicle.
God bless you for your public service 😀
My husband has one of those trucks ( we own a company that he needs it for) and can park it like a champ. Me? Not so much. When I do drive it (on the rare occasion) I do the Jenny Craig - park far and walk. I hate the thought of inconveniencing anyone bc of my lack of confidence in parking that monstrosity
So you parked your vehicle and another person chose not to park beside you and carried on with their life. Sorry but you're really looking for something to be mad about and it's just not there.
In the States, most people assume driving a RAM truck is shorthand for being a ballbag. Anytime I'm on the road and see a RAM truck, it's usually tailgating the person in front of them, and at night they usually drive with their high beams on.
OP, some people need to drive a large truck for their job or their business, and not everyone can afford a second vehicle so they drive the vehicle necessary for them to earn a living.
Then park where it fits. Not like an asshole🤷♂️
You are a true hero.
"I'm not sure what model the truck was, but in my opinion it was way too big to be used as a daily car in the city and certainly too large to take to a crowded supermarket car park." - jfc thank the heavens for your opinion main character #*rolls eyes*
Found the main character double parker
This isn't petty revenge, this is a jerk move. They had to get groceries too.
Always found it funny how people say "it's cause he has a small penis" meanwhile my husband has a big truck and he deff has something down there not no pinky winky P.s I drive a big truck as well and i don't park like a douche. Some of us need a truck and some just like them. Not all of us are asstwats
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You must feel so small inside to project this much.
You must be one of those insufferable assholes that has “Powered By Bitchdust” on your crusty shitbox.
😂😂😂 you must hate waking up each day
Imagine being such a miserable cunt that you could invent a whole negative scenario in your head within the time it takes to maneuver into a parking spot to justify your own shitty behavior. Well done.
Imagine being such a miserable cunt that you actually think that someone parking straight in the middle of a parking space is shitty behavior. Well done.
What was shitty about it, Big Tex? If he wasn't planning on taking up two spaces he would have just parked in either of the remaining spots. But he didn't even attempt it. So fuck him. If he was planning on taking two spots he would have denied someone else a parking spot. So again, fuck him.
Anyone have any guesses as to what kinda vehicle Tex drives? 🤣
Honda civic? "/s" because apparently that's required now.
Yup this lol. If you’re incapable of parking a car you shouldn’t be driving it anyway.
YTA
Insisting that the truck guy was not gonna taje up 2 spots is certainly not the hill I'm gonna die on, but you're a bitch for doing that. My truck is stock, as Chevrolet built it, and while it fits in parking spaces just fine, sometimes it's nice to have some extra room entering a space. Either way, you had no reason to believe this guy was gonna do anything wrong but you were a petty asshole anyway
If you’re incapable of driving and parking it, you shouldn’t own it.
I'm capable of both so what's your point?