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Next sign: ok, you’re just an a-hole for buying a 22ft vehicle.
He’s nice enough to make a sign, at least give the man some benefits of the doubt.
Maybe it’s company issued car? Or maybe his work really need a 22ft pickup?
Then get a van
I drive around a big ass bus for work, and sometimes private. I van fit in every parking spot a normal car can fit in. Hell, sometimes even better, because the front wheels are all the way in the front. I can fit about 8 times as much inside my bus that people can pun on their yank tanks.
If this person works in a trade that requires heavy hauling of equipment and matrials, fine. They need this truck.
If this person is using it to make up for personal inadequacies then fuck them for buying a monstrosity that pollutes like hell and wasted gasoline.
To be fair, going to IKEA is a defensible application for a vehicle like this. Some of those flat packs are pretty bulky.
You’re going to purchase a 22ft truck just for Ikea trips? How often are you going to Ikea for large furniture?
Perhaps there are people who don’t keep a fleet of differently-sized trucks so as not to overshoot.
Right, so these people are going to drive a 22ft truck everywhere because they might go to Ikea at some point in the next 5-10 years?
I went to Ikea with my Honda Civic and strapped my order to the roof of my car. It was awkward for 1 day instead of being awkward every single day.
It’s easy to figure this out. Just look in the bed of the truck.
If the truck bed is clean and empty, you’ve got yourself a Pavement Princess.
What if it’s full of empty Coors Light cans?
Domestic abuser.
There are smaller trucks that many tradesmen have been using without much issue
There’s also much longer vehicles that suit different purposes that people use without issue. We have no idea what their day-to-day work is and this might be the best possible option for them.
The small dick kill the environment type trucks usually don’t focus on long truck beds.
And those longer vehicles aren’t really made to run errands or fit in regular parking lots.
They aren’t, but not everyone can afford two vehicles. I can imagine a person getting an extended cab truck for both errands/family and work. And if this is the case, what are they supposed to do?
Vehicles are expensive.
I feel like you’re an asshole if you buy a 22 foot long pickup to take to IKEA.
I don’t see it that way. Long vehicles at IKEA, Lowe’s, hell even Michael’s – I don’t care. Their parking lots are built for that. And the stuff they get.
Long vehicles in a fucking Trader Joes, definitely asshole material.
It really depends on WHERE you park if you are going to park this way. Parking it in the boonies, way way out at the end of the parking lot? Saintly.
Parking it as close to the entrance as possible? Dungeon. 1000 years dungeon.
But generally I agree. This is the purpose of a truck. To haul heavy items that would not fit in a standard or small vehicle. But don’t buy a fucking truck for status or for your office job.
How about backing up the truck bed into the entrance doors, so when you get done, you just load it straight into the back of your truck, THEN exit the building, and drive off?
Launched into the sun.
Ikea does have loading zones for this purpose.
Typically you don’t PARK in a loading zone.
The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
So the people carrying less items of smaller size have an easier time, and the person carrying the larger items to go in the larger truck have to go further away?
Ah yes, logic.
Why not have large parking spaces near the front to accommodate this, not expect people to just park somewhere else.
IKEA and home depot both have loading zones typically where after you’re done shopping you can go get your truck, bring it to the front, load up, then be on your way. Costco and Best Buy will let you do it too for big TVs or furniture, and I’m sure other places don’t care either. I’ve definitely parked in the fire lane in front of a Harbor Freight to load up a super heavy hydraulic press and no one cares.
Yeah, God forbid he wants to actually take stuff home.
That said, if you’ve got a huge truck (and I live in the country and work blue collar so I get it, sometimes you need one), have a small car too. Trucks aren’t cheap, you can afford a Civic for the city.
I’m sure lots of people have stories about getting huge loads home from IKEA in a tiny car.
I once got two 10’ tall wardrobes and a matching dresser home in a Volkswagen.
Please explain how taking a large vehicle to a furniture store makes you an asshole.
True heroes do this.
Good to see JD Vance take this girls for a ride.
I don’t think ikea even sells furniture that requires such gigantic vehicles in the first place.
That said, furniture is an excellent example of why you could just drive a normal vehicle, a bicycle or a bus to go windowshopping and later have the new furniture delivered to your doorstep by a specialised company and/or vehicle or rent a specialised vehicle for the odd occasion. The cost for society will actually be a damn lot lower.
i mean, most parking lots have back to back spaces, so it sounds to me like they’ve pulled in the first one, all the way through to the next one. I see no problem here, large trucks like this have to stop somewhere.
Beats parking in the lot sideways LMAO.
large trucks like this have to stop somewhere.
Do they? Are these big trucks necessary at all outside of a construction yard?
When I drove a small school bus, and I needed to park it somewhere in between the times I was transporting students, I generally looked for a spot at the edges of the lot to back into, where the back of the bus would overhang over the curb (I made sure it would never disturb any sidewalk). Of course, I did several times see full-sized school buses diagonally parked across 4 spaces at the far end of a large parking lot; after all, there’s not much else you can do with such a large vehicle.
yeah school busses outside of parking lots at schools or depots are pretty hard to deal with. Unless you want to park it in your driveway, maybe.
To those saying it’s a truck at a furniture store: Y’all, it’s IKEA. Almost everything is boxed, you don’t need the truck. I manage just fine in a Mini Cooper (although admittedly that’s because of the hatch back, my Ford sedan has some trouble on the longer boxes).
That said, trucks have a place. Just not sure why they’re allowed to sell to normies such long trucks; we really need regulation on that. It’s getting rather dangerous in parking lots for the exact reason this guy put on his notification. Trying to get out of a spot with a long vehicle next to you is a bit of a roll of the dice because of visibility especially.
Okay, go buy a couch. Or a table.
Even with the hatchback open you’re not safely fitting a couch in there, a box that’s 37" by 69". Mind you, that’s just one of the 4 boxes.
My compact SUV can just barely it all the Morabo couch boxes in a single trip…
Plan on buying more than that couch? Too bad. Not fitting.
That’s right. You’re an “___HOLE” for buying a fucking 22 foot long truck and then trying to use it as a car.
I mean, the meme says at an IKEA parking lot. If ever there were a completely valid time to use that truck and park it in a lot, that’s it.
I once fit an IKEA mattress, bed frame, and slats in the back of my hatchback, with enough room leftover to make a grocery run.
You don’t like cars and yet you care how they’re arranged in a parking lot?
Somebody who dislikes cars uses one??
Impossible!
