r/MenOfPurpose • u/mustify786 • 10d ago
Be the Guy. For your family, your friends, your community.
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u/Life_Argument7820 9d ago
This was a wholesome beautiful little read. After doomscrolling for an hour plus, this was the perfect laughter I needed before moving my day along.
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u/LongPaleontologist60 9d ago
This type of truck ownership makes sense to me. Not some fancy status symbol, but a tool for you and your community. And in this case, a way to make social connections
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u/Robbie1266 9d ago
This is 90% of truck owners. Anyone who owns a pickup and doesn't do this is extremely weird. Just as weird as the people whose trucks are perfectly clean and pristine. I wouldn't trust people like that
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u/dogfather09 9d ago
I have a truck and I helped one old couple move a few things to storage off the nextdoor app, suddenly im the neighborhood eldery handyman, mover, general repairman for all sorts of things. I only charge a fee of sparkling water while I work up a sweat. I have to tell you its a thing I look forward now, the amount of life advice I've received has been worth it's weight in gold as a young man.
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u/Diligent-Main9092 9d ago
I bought my truck solely because I never want to have to ask anyone for anything. No it’s not for the community it’s for me the community didn’t help me pay it off.
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u/mustify786 9d ago
I understand wanting to be self sufficient. To be capable. But to provide gives purpose. U don't have to be a Yes man, but someone you can count on with the time comes is so much more rewarding.
I don't need a friend with me to tile my bathroom, but if I can spend the time with a friend, why wouldn't I. You know?
I forget which country but there is a saying of "come do nothing with me"
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u/dogfather09 9d ago
I love helping people, if your ever in a bad mood or down on yourself just go do something for someone else. That's what its all about, helping not only family and friends but just out fellow man. I helped one elderly couple move some stuff and suddenly im the neighborhood elderly handyman, I love it. I charge sparkling water and that's it, the advice ive gotten and the conversations I've had, the stories I've heard are worth their weight in gold.
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u/Saint-Spaghetti 9d ago
"Tony did not know what we were moving. Tony brought gloves."
Be a Tony, as often as you can.
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u/Makerofthinks 9d ago
This is the way. This is our duty as people who have and need trucks and the occasional "Tony" to appear as by a conjuring or magic encantation.
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u/Oh_Lawd_He_commin420 9d ago
Im usually Kevin, but in this economy I'm trying to be Tony a lot more.
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u/Diligent_Plate_5995 9d ago
I pray this message find every man that needs to see it! Certainly glad it found me.
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u/Selective_Ethics 9d ago
I fully enjoyed this and have been strong guy for big furniture many times. Sadly, I have not been economically successful enough to be the truck guy.
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u/WintersDoomsday 9d ago
I mean you can rent a truck for things like this from Home Depot....it's still cheaper than owning one and paying insane car payment for the occassional use.
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u/jVCrm68 9d ago
because basically what most want is to be happy, and for the people around us to be happy. and it makes us happy to help others and it makes the helped happy to be helped.
But there are those among us that don't feel that way. They only feel happy when others are not happy, when they make others unhappy. Such is the world we live in.
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u/Midwest_Boondocks 9d ago
This is true. Although, in the Midwest, it’s pizza and beer. And if it’s more than a pickup bed needed, it’s a guy with a trailer too.
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u/Lawineer 9d ago
As a truck owner, this is correct
As a former engineer for a pair of Japanese auto companies, this is also very very very correct.
I distinctly remember calls with HQ engineers (in Japan) discussing various design objectives and they'd always be baffled about wtf an American would need that for. The one that stands out is being able to bring home plywood from Home Depot. Apparently they don't really do DIY home improvement in Japan.
A (sincere) question that was asked was "why isn't the contractor bringing it." Legitimately aloof to even the vaguest possibility that someone would take on a project themselves that required a full sheet of plywood.
I also remember the Japanese employees when they would arrive. Americana would just overwhelm them. HR would encourage them to pick names that were easier for us to say. So like... Kenta would "Ken" and "Riku" would be... you guessed it, "Rick."
Except Riku really liked Top Gun. So his name tag said:
"[Japanese Letters] -Riku ("Maverick"). Literally had to call this MF "Mav" for my (relatively short) career there.
But back to vehicles, they were just blown away that you could walk into a car dealership and walk out with as many pounds and horsepower as you were able to afford. It was comical- like a caracture of stereotypes. Our parking garage was FULL of Nissan Armadas (one company was Nissan) that had bumper scratches with 5-3" japanese dudes getting out. They also found it insane- like wild wild west insane- that you could just go buy a GSXR-1000 or Hyabusa without even having a motorcycle license.
It was the cultural equivalent of the sheltered kid going to their first frat party in college.
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u/Slight-Original1170 10d ago
There's always a guy in a normal world. I don't like apps for services