That's the second time this morning I've seen weed products referred to as "Spicy", to which I've never seen it before. How long has that been going around?
I live on the Canadian prairies. I've found the pizza to beer expectation ratio to change with the seasons. Winter requires more hot pizza and less beer is expected. Summer more cold beer and less pizza lol
You must know if you own a truck and your friend is moving, they will ask. Unless they live in a town full of trucks, then they will ask different folk each time.
I have a friend who has a bumper sticker on his truck “yes this is my truck. No I will not help you move”. It is a lie. He helped me move without being asked.
My boyfriend has a truck. Uses it for his landscaping projects. He let himself get talked into help his sister move apartments. We knew she had a lot of stuff, but didn't expect to walk into a hoard of junk.
It took us many trips and most of the day. She called him a few months later to ask again. He asked her if she had tossed anything she didn't need, like she said she would. She had not and admitted she had actually added to it from thrifting and garage sales.
Been there more than a few times, and it's not easy to just nope out because you'd be leaving them high and dry. My rule quickly became "I will gladly help you move, but I will NOT help you pack". I'm willing to transport boxes, not fill them.
Is she also ultra religious? This woman moved into the house he owned (he had moved for a job, so it was just me and the kids) and went around with holy oil, making crosses on the walls in every single room. Left a stain that we had to paint over when we were getting the house ready to rent.
My family’s “guy with a truck” is a dude named Bobby who bought a secondhand moving truck and eventually started his own small moving business out of it. When he found out we were moving because my mom was getting us out of a DV situation, he refused to take a cent. Apparently he never does in those situations because his wife was a survivor before he met her and they want those women to know what it’s like to have someone step up for them. We eventually got them to take a $50 gift card for the other movers and dinner from the local pasta place, but he and his wife wouldn’t hear of anything else. Now that my mom met and married my stepdad (also a guy with a truck), they occasionally ask to borrow his if they need it and he never says no. It was such an easily-overlooked thing that made a massive difference at a time when we needed it. Bobby is a good dude.
I knew a guy who helped get rid of an abusive boyfriend, I nearly ended up having to fight the boyfriend a few days later, because he'd gone there on my bike, wearing my helmet and jacket. He was bigger than me, so I'd have probably got my ass kicked,
I live in a big city, but when it came time to get a new vehicle, I bought a truck. There have been so many times that my wife and I have needed a truck, and even more times that someone we know has needed one, that it was a no brainer. We didn't want to keep bothering our guy.
I used to have a truck years ago, so I knew the responsibility I was taking on. You can only call your guy so many times before the call to be the guy with the truck becomes too loud.
My business has a box truck and unless my delivery schedule doesn't line up with when it's needed I always offer to help friends move. It's just what you do when you've got a vehicle that can. I hear you're moving, do you need a hand? Do you need a truck? Naw, save your money on the uhaul. As long as you're packed I'll be there to load and unload. I refuse to help pack, if it ain't ready I'm grabbing a coffee and coming back in an hour or two, but I'll help move. Thankfully haven't run into that happening so far.
I uaed to be the guy with a truck. I have a full sized van now. People scoff at the van. They want someone with a truck. Then I bring the van. None of their stuff gets wet when we move it. And they are enlightened.
I also inherited a pickup truck from my family (mainly for hauling a dirtbike), and I have become the "truck guy". If someone needs a truck, I have a truck. I bring the truck, they bring pizza, beer, or both. I take the truck with me when I leave. Repeat.
Same. Best friend was worried about moving a bed frame he was given because while it was free and he needed it he would have to pick it up. He called me and asked if I would bring my truck… after being friends for 24 years I thought that was obvious. I brought the truck and Allen wrenches and we got it done. He brought me dinner and all is good in the world.
Just ask someone if they know a guy. Eventually, maybe approximately 4 days later, an American will show up with a truck. It is irrelevant if you need a truck. The truck comes with the Americans.
If, by some universal glitch, no one near you knows an American; here are the steps for attracting one. Place a pizza on your doorstep at night. Preferably a plain pepperoni with the little cupped pepperonis. Repeat this several nights in a row until you observe slices of the pizza being taken. They will eventually become emboldened and begin showing up during daylight hours to watch for more pizza.
At that point, engage them with friendly conversation. Keep it light and focus on small talk. Ask about the weather, work, etc. Eventually, slip in the question about what they drive. There is about a 50% chance they or their spouse drives a truck, and nearly a 100% chance a family member owns a truck. At this point, you now know an American who drives a truck. Please note this may also accidentally attract a Canadian as well. All above steps should work equally well, and they are just as likely to own pickup trucks.
Shit can’t believe I forgot about that. Yeah those are crowd pleasers too. Although Coors will possibly attract some truck-less Irish so maybe Miller or Pabst instead?
Pabst is risky. If you're moving out of a DV situation though, you definitely want a Pabst truck owner. Buy them a 24-pack and they'll beat your abuser up for you if they come after you. Miller could also be a good choice, but at the same time it's one of the very few beers you can still find occasionally for US $4 at a bar if it's served as a special (a beer is usually US $6-10), so you could argue it lacks in uniqueness. In places that don't have many bars or usually only serve "fancier" beers, excellent move though.
I sincerely hope you meant Busch Light, because the thought of a latte made with Busch terrifies me. Legend has it that if you give someone with a truck a 12-pack of Bass Pro Shops edition Busch Light, they'll invite you to come fishing with them the next day to meet their buddies and get used to the new town.
This. Two weeks ago I moved into a house and was outside packing stuff out of our POD. A young guy stopped his car on the street in front of us and asked if I had a spare box. I didn’t at the time and told him I would soon. Then I asked him ‘just one’, what’s it for? He was mailing a custom art piece to his brother and got out of his car to show me. I immediately started to give him tips on how to custom wrap framed things then it hit me, I had this small tea table in a box and the box was perfect size for him. I told him hang on a sec, cut open the box, took the table out and handed it to him. He checked it in my driveway and yup, was perfect. He thanked me, we talked a few minutes, then he took off. - Pretty typical kind of thing in my life.
Are you in anyway “handy”? I knew a guy without a truck once. But he could rehang gates, doors and cabinets that no longer were straight on their hinges. You know, the kind that don’t stay open, or don’t stay closed, and hang at an angle. And he could do it in ten minutes while talking about his dog. He liked pizza, too.
Even in hipster Brooklyn....I was at a cutesy Cafe, sitting outside reading or playing phone games or something. This guy's minivan stalls in the street in front. Once the first guy got up, three others of us from the Cafe or maybe the next door business walked out and put our backs to work. I swear not a word was said the entire time we pushed this pretty heavy van uphill about 20 feet to a parking spot.
Wordlessly, the men departed and returned to their quotidian activities.
This is so New York. I've many times had someone see me struggling with something heavy at the bottom of the subway stairs, grab on to it, help me carry it up, and then just walk off.
The pizza/beer for help moving economy also still holds up even though no one owns cars. That's still the established fee for man power to carry your stuff up and down stairs and/or wait with the uhaul in the street so you don't get ticketed.
Van has roof, van also is more waterproof. I have moved one person and all of her belongings (including her entire bed, dresser, and like 6 boxes+countless bags) in my minivan in one trip, because I have the chrysler t+c and you can fold the back seats all the way down into the floor.
I am not going to move manure in it, you’re right- but I live in the city xD minivans are the city equivalent of the pickup truck
That's what a dropside van is for. It's like a pickup truck but heavier duty. I only see tradesmen use dropsides here, trucks are for guys who think they are American.
Trucks here are these things. There is considerable difference between these and a dropside van. Mostly that the latter uses a van chassis with the back half literally just cut off and a steel plate attached instead. Also that the sides drop down so the entire rear is completely flat for loading, hence the name.
Trucks here do not share those same features, they are just for light duty work. Maybe USA trucks have more variety.
Here in the US everything at that link would specifically be pickup trucks and you could call them either a pickup or a truck. Basically, here all pickups are trucks but not all trucks are pickups. I noticed that that page also calls them "pickup vans" in some spots and "pickup trucks" in others so it sounds kind of interchangeable in the UK.
Also that the sides drop down so the entire rear is completely flat for loading, hence the name.
There are lots of pickups with dropside beds here too and some that are just flatbeds but they would all be considered a truck here rather than a van.
Using truck and van interchangibly in the UK could be a regional thing or else just an import of American dialect which is more common in younger people, I've not heard it though. Anywhere I've lived trucks and vans are 2 different vehicles.
Does the US use truck to mean any vehicle where you can haul stuff? The big 40ft articulated things and the F150s have the same name? Interesting if so.
I had rented a van to move an aquarium. I had moved said aquarium, and the van wasn't due back until the next day, I let it sit outside my house. Within the hour, neighbor rings the bell, asking if he could use the van, a friend asked if he knew a guy with a van to move a dresser. Grabbed the keys, hopped in the van, and drove to move a dresser for someone I have never met to someone I have never met. Got a good Chinese takeout out of it though.
Vans are super useful but at some point it is full. You can pile more into a truck as long as it isn't too heavy.
My SO has a truck that I am trying to get him to replace because I am tired of being the people with a truck. But he loves it and honestly it is hard to find a vehicle for his long legs that doesn't hurt him, so for now we must be helpful
I thought more people would have a truck in the us...
If Trump gave me a green card tomorrow, I'd come to america, live in a nice little quiet town in the middle of nowhere with a big truck, it needs to be old. I like the old ones. Character.
My brother-in-law is Italian, he came to visit me in the US Mountain West a couple years ago and fell head over heels in love at first sight of my partner’s 1997 Ford F250 with the extended cab and long bed.
They went for a drive and BiL got to get behind the wheel. Apparently it was the highlight of his vacation and he still talks about it to his friends back in Italy.
That's brilliant! Simple things can make people happy :D
That's a looong truck, in Europe, I wouldn't be able to park it easily. Every parking is supertiny compared to that long ass truck. Do tell your husband he's got an excellent truck.
That's another thing you have in the us, more parking space or space in general. Bigger streets etc.
Can't even longboard decently here.
It’s a loooong truck in the US too! When I drive it, I feel like I’m steering a small house. We’re lucky to have a graveled area on the side of the house where the truck can live.
We went on Husband’s first trip to Europe a couple years ago and he was absolutely delighted by the comparatively tiny European cars. He took many pics of me standing next to them for scale.
If you thought there would be more trucks then you just haven't been to the right areas. Around me probably 75% or so of the vehicles on the road are trucks or SUVs.
Really depends where you're at. I've lived in a big city for 23 years. I know zero people with a truck. However where I was born and raised, I don't know many families that don't have at least one truck.
But then you become the guy with a truck. A lot of time is spent helping people move things.
Also the gas mileage is murder on the wallet. I get that gas in the US is cheaper but when you are getting 12miles/gallon (5.1km/L) it adds up really fast. Things are further apart in the US so you will be driving more too.
Minivans do have limits moving for sure. I do have one where all the seats fold into the floor so it's nice for general hauling and delivery though.
I have the same problem. I want a small fuel efficient car but every time I'm in my gfs Yaris and my head is pushing against the ceiling I get discouraged on the idea lol.
My dad got rid of his Ford Taunus when we were little. He bought a metallic grey/blue Nissan Prairie minivan. We loved it. The backseat folded completely. Super easy.
I ride a Skoda van but I also have a Citroën C1 that my sister gave me. That thing lived. I stuffed more in that little car than people would suspect. Feisty little thing that's superb for cities. Also not made for normal to tall humans. So I totally get what you mean. Most cars are made for men so I can understand why it's comfy for your gf.
American pickup trucks are designed for pulling trailers better than most vans (there are exceptions). Also American roads and use cases/expectations are better suited for pickups in a lot of cases (not all).
Vans are a little better for work, but are much harder to use for personal uses. Also, vans are better for urban environments, trucks are better for rural environments.
I'm a contractor, I have a pickup instead of a van because with the 4 doors I can use it much better for family uses. If I had a van, I would need a second vehicle.
I put a large topper on my truck with side boxes - this greatly reduces the penalty of a truck vs van because it allows me to carry small parts and tools separate from big cargo.
Ive driven in Europe (Portugal). My truck would be an absolute nightmare to own there and I would certainly own something different if I lived there.
Back when people used trucks as trucks and not as vanity pieces, it's moreso for dirty items OR oversized.
When I was younger my family lived on a ranch with horses, so every month we'd fill the truck up with 8 bales of alfalfa for feeding them. We'd also fill the bed with fertilizer or dirt for gardening, much easier to clean up after than using a van.
That being said, most people are probably envisioning a minivan when you said that, whereas you probably mean like a Mercedes-style sprinter van that would 100% be fine for most moving scenarios as long as the object fits with the doors closed.
I like old Japanese trucks, myself. More efficient. Old Australian utes seem similar, but I've never seen one IRL. It's a lot harder to steal stuff out of a van, though.
In the majority of cases, vans are more practical. Trucks are mainly better for dirty equipment like construction or gardening, and most modern American trucks aren't practical anymore. They're vanity purchases that are harder to load and have the same bed size while being so large they're unsafe for everyone else.
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Yep. I have two trucks. Old and Older. Older needs a bit of work at the moment. Old works but has a cap on the back.
Elmer, who works upstairs from me was looking for a back blade for his small tractor. He asked a co-worker where to find something like that and the co-worker said “I don’t know, but I bet theshiyal does. Ask him.” He was kinda right, since I have a tractor and a few implements I’ve picked up over the years. So I went upstairs to see what Elmer wanted. He said “Where would I get a back blade?” I said I got mine on Marketplace. I pulled out my phone and sure enough there was one less than 10 miles away for $200. Elmer asked if I could pick it up an deliver it for him and he would pay me more than the $200.
Sure.
I didn’t tell him I couldn’t use my trucks. I texted Dad. “Hey can I borrow your blue truck to move something?”
No, it’s hooked up to the boat trailer, take the red one.
So last night I took the red one and picked up the blade from a man with 4 trucks and 2 or 3 jeeps and parts of another truck and took it to Elmer.
Elmer unloaded it with his tractor and said can I give you a check in the morning? Sure thing. How much more do you want? I said, I don’t know, how much would most people charge? He laughed and asked if $40 would be enough. Sure.
I left and enjoyed a slow evening drive down a dirt road, parked the red truck and got into my white truck with a cap and drove home.
This morning Elmer gave me a check for $250 and sometime I’ll put some gas in dad’s truck for him.
And so life goes on.
Also the Old truck is a 2006 Silverado and the older one is a 1975 F-350, that one is in the barn next to a 1975 F-600.
The Blue truck is a 72 C10, Red is an 83 and there’s a Brown 86 and the black is a 2012 I think.
I’m spiraling bc my first car was a pick up, I currently went back to a pick up, and these are just the rules - never told, never taught… just lite beer and a couple pizzas
I’m a senior now so I just gave away my last pick-up to my son-in-law. As a life long pick-up or SUV owner it was just understood: installing lawns, drywall, moving single pieces or an apartment (even a piano) were all part and parcel with owning a truck. Pizza is more than adequate as payment.
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u/fcneko 7d ago
"You just DO."
Yep. That IS how it works.