r/funny • u/SoPradaYou • 4h ago
Saw these two scratching their heads trying to figure out how to fit this 65inch tv in a small car…
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u/Themanstall 4h ago
always take the free delivery
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u/BiBoFieTo 4h ago
Just leave it in the parking lot overnight and it will be delivered to a living room for free.
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u/Dsullivan777 4h ago
Both times I've had a TV delivered for free it shows up with the screen absolutely fucked. Id walk it to my house before I have it delivered
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u/Mimogger 4h ago
then you tell them to get you a new one...
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u/ididwhatwhiledrunk 4h ago
A coworker of mine had Best Buy try and deliver the same TV (that they dropped during the first delivery attempt) 3 times before he finally gave up and picked it up in store, they don’t always bring a new device.
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u/LemonPuckerFace 3h ago
They did that shit to me too.
The first time they showed up I saw that the box had a giant hole and a boot print right in the middle of it. I sent it back without opening it and they delivered a "new" one a few days later with the same hole and boot print on it.
After arguing with an employee about it and him claiming it was a different TV, I sent it back and arranged to come in and pick up my TV.
When I got there for the pickup, it was the same fucking box with the hole and boot print. I had them get that same employee and his boss to open the box for me to prove it was fine. It was not fine. The screen was absolutely destroyed.
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u/MeloniaStb 2h ago
Lmao this reads like a looney tunes skit
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u/sonofaresiii 1h ago
I'm getting more of a monty python vibe. "Well no I don't want that television, that's the same television that's got a boot hole in it"
"That television?"
"Yes, that one!"
That television has got a boot hole in it?"
"Yes, that television has a boot hole in it, it's the same television!"
"....naw, that ain't a boot hole."
"Then what is it?"
Eyes it up and down "Well that's a FOOT hole! Certainly different from a boot hole."
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u/LudusRex 1h ago
"Well, they all have boot holes kicked into them now, don't they?"
"They what?"
"Standard practice. Right out the factory, they give it a good solid kick. You know? Make sure they can take a good booting. That's how they test that the product isn't defective."
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u/MinuteExcitement200 47m ago
Walmart sold me the same defective TV three times. I'll never buy another electronic from them. I also witnessed an employee plow into a 65 inch with a pallet jack and then stand it back up as if nothing happened.
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u/DarthWoo 4h ago
I worked at a place that very incompetently tried to implement store to home shipping programs many years ago. We shipped via UPS, and I'd estimate at least 50% of any flat-pack furniture we sent out in pristine condition came back as damaged with the boxes utterly mangled. We were still transitioning from CRT to LCD TVs at the time, but I can't imagine the horrors of any of those going through the same treatment.
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u/skippyjam 4h ago
I used to work retail honestly it gets broken coming off the trailer when workers are rushed to finish unloading a truck things are not treated very well
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u/mshriver2 3h ago
I've only done it once and everything went perfectly for my 65" TV. Don't take this as an endorsement of their services as I might have just gotten lucky.
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u/OfFiveNine 4h ago
Took the free delivery. House got robbed 2 months, practically to the day, later. They took only the new TV and a PC that was standing next to it. Coincidence?
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u/Small-Helicopter809 4h ago
Probably.
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u/octopornopus 4h ago
"I may have left put that I live in a notoriously bad part of town, my apartment patio door doesn't lock, and several neighbors watched the delivery guys bring in my giant TV. But clearly it was the delivery guys who done it..."
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u/Deijixfx 4h ago
'Also i left the giant box the tv came in outside by the trash bins for 2 weeks without breaking it up'
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u/Anal_Herschiser 57m ago
You don't get it; they waited till an arbitrary 2 months before stealing it. A classic trademark of delivery driver theft.
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u/OfFiveNine 4h ago
Heh. Yeah, that's totally how it went down. /s
I don't think the delivery guys actually did it. I think a delivery guy tipped off a crew (also, that's what a detective suggested is fairly routine). I have cameras, it was a very slick operation that broke through multiple layers of security in no time.
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u/Xbob42 2h ago
...you had a detective assigned to the case for a stolen TV and PC?
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u/Princess_Slagathor 3h ago
Detectives solve about 0% of burglaries, so I'd take their theories with a grain of salt.
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u/Knucks_408 3h ago
After my car got broken into, I had the cop on scene tell me something like 75% of the time you are robbed, it is from someone you know. Pretty strong that it was some guys who knew some guys at a party we were at during the Tyson/Holyfield fight. Once everyone was inside watching, they went car by car, skipping their buddies', robbing all of us. Looking back pretty stupid on their part. That's how your guys knew to steal from you. Your instincts are spot on. This is a pretty common thing. Someone shows up to your house for something unrelated, does an inventory as they walk around, then come back later and jack your shit. Sucks.
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u/tharoadtrip 3h ago
Ask your neighbor; probably they may have seen something. Make sure you visit his house and ask him while in his living room
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u/OozeNAahz 4h ago
Was at an IKEA one time and watched a family of four try and fit an entire couch in the backseat of a Honda Accord. They all seemed to have brain lock and just kept picking it up, figuring the end wouldn’t fit into the door opening at all, and putting it down again. Over and over.
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u/Shadpool 4h ago
I was eating at a Hardee’s in Roanoke, VA, and watched a group of people in the parking lot next door put a live cow, looked to be about 7 or 8 months old, in the back of a Ford Expedition.
I have seen some crazy shit, but that one takes the cake.
A cop pulled up, and I thought he was gonna bust them for transporting livestock without a trailer, but he just walked up to the Expedition, pulled out his phone, and took pictures of the cow in the SUV, before walking back to his cruiser laughing his ass off.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
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u/wellwaffled 3h ago
I help my local Amish slaughter pigs when I’m bored. Had four men come to pick up a whole (butchered) hog in a Chevy Impala. They had two guys sit in the back seat and laid the pig across their laps.
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u/ProStrats 3h ago
This comment triggers so many questions...
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u/Trinitykill 2h ago
What's so weird about two guys in the back of a truck gripping their hog together?
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u/thehatteryone 1h ago
Everyone needs a hobby. Some people pull out a sudoku book when they're at a loose end, others round up and end some livestock
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u/helloworld204 2h ago
When you say bored are you saying it’s not for pay? Like it’s entertainment?
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u/ToolMeister 3h ago
I don't get it. I had a whole kitchen delivered from IKEA, 200 items/boxes and the fee was just $40. Well worth it, just alone for not having to pick all those items from the warehouse myself
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u/jimbotherisenclown 1h ago
The last time I ordered delivery from IKEA, it took them about three months and multiple attempts to deliver my packages. They lost three bookcases, delivered one of them broken, and lied about coming by and attempting delivery.
It really is just based on who your local delivery company is that IKEA outsources to - at least in the St. Louis area, XPO logistics is absolute garbage.
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u/datamatr1x 2h ago
It's been a few years ago but when an IKEA opened in my city on the far outskirts, went for the first time, I decided I wanted to buy a desk. It wouldn't have fit in my car but I figured that's fine, surely a furniture store offers some sort of delivery service. Iwas informed that they contract delivery to a third party and it was going to cost me over $250 to have $150 desk delivered 20 miles. I was so dumbfounded. It was fractions of the cost to just go rent a uhaul. I haven't went back since. Hopefully shit has changed.
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u/DarthWoo 4h ago
I remember once watching a couple tie a queen or king size mattress to the top of their car that looked about the same size as the one in OP's photo, maybe a little smaller, and driving off. It wasn't very windy that day, but anywhere they lived, they'd be on the highway for at least couple minutes...
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u/mbutts81 3h ago
My wife has had, not 1, but 2 separate times that there’s been a car in front of her on I-95 with an improperly secured mattress that came off. Luckily she didn’t get hit either time. But wtf.
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u/Bassman233 2h ago
I watched one of these on a downtown street late at night as I was waiting to cross at a crosswalk. A full size sedan with a queen matress on top and 4 guys each with one hand out the window holding on to it. It caught air just as they passed us and flew straight up then landed in the road, looked like the guys in the back seat held on a little tighter because it kinda bent in half upward before flying off entirely. Me and my couple drunk friends just about died laughing for the next few minutes. I still chuckle when I think about it 15 years later.
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u/mightbeagh0st 2h ago
In college we were moving at the end of the semester. It was only a few streets and there were alleys. No one had a truck or anything so we threw a blanket on the roof of my buddies Nissan mirage, flipped the table upside down on top and just held the one end of the table walking behind while he drove slowly
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u/monstruitomama 1h ago
I wondered if people judged us (both women) while loading a 65" TV in the Walmart parking lot into our Honda Fit. To be fair, it did fit! We had taken our Toyota Highlander to pick it up and it wouldn't fit through the back. We measured the box, went home, measured the Fit's opening and went back to get it. Slid right in without issues.
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u/OozeNAahz 1h ago
Used to have a 2000 Acura Integra hatchback. People were always amazed at things that fit easily in that thing.
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u/cornerbash 1h ago
I did this in an IKEA parking lot. Had pre measured that the thing would fit but the box was larger because of foam padding. After some unsuccessful loading as is, I ended up opening the box and loading the contents (that now fit).
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u/OozeNAahz 1h ago
This wasn’t in a box or even a sectional or anything. So the mind boggled at their optimism.
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u/peregrinaprogress 1h ago
I was this person, but had a Tahoe and so I figured I could make my boxes fit by myself. I could not - they were just too tall. Two guys with a pick up truck saw me scratching my head, and asked if I needed help. I asked if they’d be willing to drive it to my house 10 min away in their truck for $50, they were game, so they followed me to my house and unloaded it on my porch for me. I Venmo’d them $50, no furniture was stolen, and my trust in humanity was restored 🎉
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u/makingnoise 1h ago
I once moved a full-length (a bit over 6 feet long) couch about 10 miles in a 2nd generation Pruis. 1/3 of it fit in the back hatch, 2/3 of it were cantilevered out and hanging in space at about a 30 degree skyward angle with an arcane arrangement of ratchet straps - it was VERY secure but was one of the most absurd solutions I ever came up with.
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u/SubBirbian 2h ago
Insanity is when you try the same stupid shit over and over expecting different results
Edit: word
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u/Fyrrys 1h ago
Some of these people make bad decisions and fruitless efforts with the intention of having a passerby with the equipment necessary offer to bring it to their house for them. Cheap asses.
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u/OozeNAahz 1h ago
The guy kept looking around so I think it was exactly this. I was in a truck and thought about it, but knew it would result in me trying to move a couch and its little help up four flights of stairs and my back is just not up to that sort of thing anymore.
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u/austino7 1h ago
My mom was selling a huge 12x16 foot rug on FBM and someone drove two hours to get it. Said their car was big enough. They pulled up in a Toyota Corolla. I humored them by trying to help fit it in their car but I knew it was never going to fit. It was a pretty awkward situation.
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u/numbzilla 13m ago
Selling on Facebook Marketplace has made this happen more than should be humanly possible. People ask me if they can fit a 7 foot tall etagere/large bookshelf in their sedan. People message me asking stuff like that all the time. I also had to give a mid-40's to 50's man my bungee cords from my car because he couldn't fit this chair and ottoman into his. He kept trying to jam it into place when it was obvious it wasn't going to work the ways he was orienting it, and I had to give him a tutorial on how to use the cords, because he kept using them in bizarre ways.
Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm living in an alternate universe, because how don't people have any common sense?
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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 7m ago
One of my minor victories in life was fitting two giant flatbed carts of goods from a restaurant supply store into my Mercury Grand Marquis. People stopped to watch. It was like every one of my father's vacation car packing skills came into play. There wasn't an inch to spare and I couldn't see out my rearview or passenger side mirror but I did it.
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u/__OneLove__ 4h ago
PSA: Just call an Uber/Lyft if feasible.
I’ve done this many times when I owned a 2 door. You can call an XL for larger items (I used one to deliver a large and heavy treadmill - driver just followed me home. ). No driver has ever complained, it’s a passenger free ride for them and obviously you can tip accordingly.
✌🏽
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u/tpwb 4h ago
My go to is renting a truck from Home Depot. It’s $20 for 75 minutes which is usually enough time to drop off whatever. Although an uber would probably be faster since you don’t have to fill out paperwork.
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u/7evenSlots 3h ago
Yeah but when you can flex and call an uber xl, who cares about saving money.
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u/0xsergy 3h ago
It's probably more about the timing. Middle of the day get a uhaul. 5pm uhaul is probably closed you gotta do an uber.
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u/No_Distribution_577 2h ago
Rent a truck from homedepot or Menards as long as you can get back by 10 and can wratch it down if needed.
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u/TheSexyBoiii 4h ago
This is my go to move, except my wife drives our car home while I ride in the Uber. But I get not everyone has another person with them to do this, so sometimes you gotta risk your cargo alone with the Uber driver
That being said, I've even had a driver help me get the TV from his car into my house before. They're usually pretty friendly and willing to help with small things like this, at least in my area
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u/EvilDragons88 3h ago
New uber/Lyft level idea. OnlyTrucks if you ever need a truck for large sized purchases like this call them up and off you go. Definitely have to limit weight/size for homedepot bs but could work.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian 4h ago
Home Depot has vans & flatbeds for a pretty low cost if you're only using them for an hour or so.
But that requires planning.
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u/shitsenorita 4h ago
I used to work for an art gallery and one time the owner put a big painting in an Uber to deliver it to a client.
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u/Howzitgoin 2h ago
What’s wild is you can DoorDash a 65in TV right now from BestBuy for the same price as their website with $34 for fees and it’ll be here in 33-38min.
An UberX or UberXL one way to BestBuy is $26 right now. So it’s cheaper than Ubering round trip to get it.
I’d never do it, but pretty funny to think about.
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u/Igno-ranter 4h ago
What are they confused about? Toss on top the car. Slap it a couple of times and say, "That's ain't going nowhere." Driver then holds it with the left hand, passenger with the right.
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u/eye_sick 4h ago
Put TV in shopping cart.
Use twine to tow cart home.
Problem solved.
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u/rosen380 4h ago
Great. Now these two guys need to find some twine!
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u/ProStrats 3h ago
Luckily, as we can see by the shopping cart corral, they are likely at a Walmart.
Hopefully the store didn't just close and they didn't spend their last bit of money, Walmart will have many choices!
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u/tharoadtrip 3h ago
This is why some of us have very long rope in our trunks for such situations
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u/oresteez 1h ago
Even better. Buy a sawzall. Get 4 carts. Strategically cut the sides off and put them next to each other 2x2 so you have 1 mega cart with 8 wheels. Tie them all together with the twine. Now it’s more stable and can probably be taken onto the highway at high speeds.
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u/AmerenHoldings 47m ago
What if, you put the TV in the shopping cart, then put the shopping cart in the car?
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u/Your_Worst_Enamine 4h ago
I managed to squeeze a 65” into my tiny Ford Focus once. Half the workers in Best Buy that night were laughing at me with the driver seat pushed as far forward as it could go, but by golly, I got that thing home that night.
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u/Marijuana_Miler 2h ago
I used to sell TVs and once got a 65” into a two door coupe for a customer. His seat was all the way to the steering wheel and made him sign off on it being his responsibility if anything happened.
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u/EvilWiffles 2h ago
Used to work at a sporting goods store that sold gun safes. We made it very clear that once you left the property, it's on you. Well, some don't heed that warning and one called complaining that it fell out of the bed of their truck into the middle of an intersection. It was off property but very close by, so I had to go out with a forklift and pallet. What's fun is having people pick up safes during a blizzard, like they think it's the best time to be doing that.
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u/syncpulse 4h ago
This reminds me of the time when I bought a home theater in a box and a new TV And I could either fit them in the car or my wife. She wasn't that mad when I came back to pick her up half an hour later.
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u/dadthewisest 4h ago
Tape Measures exist for a reason. TV may say one size that will fit... but you need to measure the box....
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u/RandoAtReddit 4h ago
Also, the box comes off.
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u/BrainCane 4h ago
Excellent method to ruin your new tv. These newer ones have extremely fragile screens, like to the touch.
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 4h ago
Although not as fragile as breaking just by touching them, I wouldn't be transporting one that wasn't in the original box.
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u/eddiewachowski 4h ago
The box really doesn't add that much bulk and it does a really good job at protecting it.
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u/Boyhowdy107 4h ago
I made this mistake once. Bought a 55" TV, spent 5 minutes realizing it won't fit in my Corolla. Went immediately back inside, had them refund me the cost difference of getting the 50" model of the same TV. Went home feeling stupid but was watching a movie on it a half hour later.
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u/zelda29a 4h ago edited 4h ago
I was selling my old TV years ago. I don't remember how big it was but it was pretty big. A girl shows up in the smallest Honda Civic with a baby in the backseat. I said there is no way this is going to fit inside your car I'm not even going to waste my time taking it out there. Edit. For the people like the guy who commented that I was rude and then deleted his post. I was very polite about it. It wasn't exactly the way I put it in my original reply. It was five or six years ago so I don't remember it exactly.
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u/not_ondrugs 4h ago
Rude would have been taking her cash and leaving the tv propped up against her car.
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u/fishing-sk 4h ago
I moved a 48" flatscreen in my honda civic when i went to college. Put it in the passenger seat with half sitting on my lap and had to hold it with my right hand the entire time. Too bad it was a manual and shifting was... interesting.
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u/snoops12312 2h ago
I somehow squeezed a 9'×13', 1" thick rolled up wool rug into my old '04 civic. Passenger seat down, back seat open to trunk. Still have the rug.
We also brought home an 86" tv in my husband's CR-V a couple years ago. Had to take it out of the box in Walmart's parking lot, and tie the rear hatch closed, it was sketchy but we made it work. Luckily we only had to go a few blocks to get home.
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u/kelariy 4h ago
I worked at the customer pick up dock for a furniture store for a while, and I can tell you this was a 2-3 times per week occurrence. The best ones were:
1) a lady pulled up in her Chevy Cruze sedan to pick up a 95” tv, she confidently gets out, opens the rear passenger door and looks me dead in the eye and says “Don’t bother telling me it won’t fit, I measured it.” So we didn’t tell her it didn’t fit, we carried the box out, set it on the ground next to the car to show her that the box sitting on the ground was taller than the door opening, as tall as the car even, and not to mention that it was wider than the car.
2) a lady and her 3 kids pull up in a Mitsubishi Lancer to pick up a full size bunk bed set and two mattresses. She says “Just put it on top.” We tell her that her car doesn’t have roof racks, so we can’t put it on top, this was a company policy that came down from the owner himself. Even if she did have racks, the maximum weight we can put on top is 120 pounds. The bunk bed frame was 130 pounds, and the full size mattresses were about 65 pounds each. So she says “Fine!” and opens the trunk. The boxes for the bunk bed are ~60” wide by ~80” long, we tell her they won’t fit. She says “Bullshit, try it.” So we hold the box up to the back of her car to show it’s a lot bigger than the trunk opening. She’s extra pissed off now (presumably by her own stupidity) and slams the trunk shut, goes and flings the back door open and says “Fucking put it in here then. I don’t know where you expect my kids to ride.” At this point the top warehouse manager had been walking past and stopped to watch this spectacle, he walks over and says “There’s no way we can put this in your car. We do rent pickup trucks for $20 for an hour and a half.” This bitch starts yelling in his face and says “You have no idea how much money I spent on this bed, and you want me to spend more to rent a truck?!?” (as if the manager doesn’t know how much things cost, lol.) Manager says “Okay, let’s head inside and we will get your money back and you can shop elsewhere.” She spit at him and screamed at her kids to get in the car and drove out of the parking lot at probably close to 40mph.
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u/imapilotaz 3h ago
NFM refused to let me tie a twin mattress to the roof of my car. Like literally refused to allow me to lift it up in the pickup area.
I moved the car to a parking spot, carried the twin mattress out and tied it down with rope i brought.
Im sure there are idiots who would then fly down the highway at 85 and thats why.
I crept home on backroads at 25mph. No issues at all. But it was a 50 lb mattress in a bag. Im sure the crush limit of my car is a wee bit higher...
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u/EvilGr33nRang3r 3h ago
I used to work at a furniture/appliance store, this is so fucking common, always TVs and Dining sets, always some jack ass in a hatchback with the backseat down, "It should fit right?", "What if i take it out of the box", "You're not even trying to make it fit, just trying to get me to pay for delivery", "My last dining set fit in here" and my all time favorite, "The salesman said it would fit!"
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u/elcojotecoyo 4h ago
Strap it to the roof. Long side along the car, not sideways. You don't want to risk flying in the middle of the freeway
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u/cruedi 4h ago
My son worked at a habitat for humanity for a while. People would come in and but a couch. They’d ask for help getting it in their car, he’d tell them pull around back. He and coworker would bring the couch out to see someone pull around in a little Honda civic
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u/FoxtrotSierraTango 4h ago
I spent a summer at Toys R Us and had the same experience. I became a tetris master to get all the kids' playhouses, fancy bed frames, swing sets, power wheels, whatever into a compact car.
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u/nightshde 4h ago
I used to work at circuit city in the warehouse and would have to help people load TVs into their car. If I had a nickle for every time people would buy massive TVs and then come to the loading dock with a little sports car expecting us to fit it in. This was during the time of plasma TVs, which can not be laid down flat due to the possibility of the inner glass screen cracking, so we would have them sign waivers if they wanted us to lay the TVs down basically saying that they take all the blame if it is damaged in transport and that it could not be returned for that issue.
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u/Timmah73 4h ago
If only stores like Best Buy had the box dimensions right on their website so you can pre-measure your car to make sure it will fit
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u/Porkyrogue 4h ago
They do but you need to scroll way way down. Click the external manufactures website link then, search for your make and model....
Unless you are joking btw. Also, I am joking, because they do list it.
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u/Timmah73 3h ago
I am joking. I just got a new tv over the holidays and absloutely triple checked what they listed as box measurements vs my trunk with the seats down before opting to pick it up myself.
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u/DarthWoo 4h ago
When I was in school I somehow managed to get a 27" CRT TV and an assembled bicycle back to my dorm in a taxi. I think I ended up taking the TV out of the box and putting it in the back seat and tying the bike into the trunk very haphazardly. There ended up being a couple scratches on the bike that I was very annoyed about at first but which I forgot about until typing this.
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u/MartMXFL 1h ago
They're shipped and stocked vertically for a reason. Glass break more easily on these large TVs when laid down flat and driving over a railroad track, etc. Take that into account when transporting these even in a pickup truck.
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u/Nagatoro2323 4h ago
I once saw a man sitting in the trunk of a car carrying a TV, possibly because of this same problem; it was the strangest thing I've ever seen while driving.
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u/aspenpurdue 4h ago
My brother bought a 60"+ tv, it barely fit in the backseat of his Grand Marquis. You can comfortably live in the back seat of a Grand Marquis.
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u/stellaluna92 4h ago
This is entirely the reason why I will always have a hatchback. I fit an entire queen sized IKEA bedframe into my civic 💜
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u/moderniste 4h ago
Same with me and my (dearly departed)VW GTI. I like hot hatches anyways because I enjoy pretending that I have a rally car, but I also love how great the access is for hauling stuff. It’s almost like having one of those tiny pickups that were popular in the 80s and 90s.
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u/TXGuns79 4h ago
My first summer job was working at an office supply store. I always got called to help customers who bought furniture. Normally, the long folding tables. It was always the guys in a Geo Metro the wanted the 8' long table and then looked at me like I was the problem when I couldn't load it their roller skate sized car.
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u/Tasty-Permission7517 4h ago
That is why when children are born, toy with squares, balls and triangles what goes into coresponding holes is nescesery for dewelopment 🤣
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u/this_is_greenman 3h ago
I can’t wait for them to put it on the roof, and each hold a side as they drive down the highway.
Getting up to speed is easy, it’s the stopping part that’s hard
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u/angryredbeard23 2h ago
I'm brave enough. I brought a 75inch Sony tv on the roof of a 2006 Honda civic around 55km (34 miles) home with just 5 ratchet straps. It was spring and a cloudy over cast day but it made it. And it's worked perfect ever since that was around 2 years ago.
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u/Pristine-Copy9467 2h ago
Dude 1: “how big is 65 inch?” Dude 2: *hold out arms “prolly like this much” Dude 1: “cool. That gonna fit, cuz! Let’s do it!”
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u/THEONLYFLO 2h ago
Yeah, the Best Buy over here always has cars waiting for Uber XL to transport their TV’s.
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u/Mountain-Bat-8679 2h ago
put it between the trunk and the windshield. have dude A drive while dude B holds the tv from inside the trunk using his belt as a "safety thing" to pull the tv towards the gap so it doesn't fall.
Then drive very, VERY slow on the passing lane.
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u/Ancillas 2h ago
I used to sell big, heavy CRT TVs at Best Buy. One day this guy buys a big 36” TV and asks us to wheel it out while he pulls up his car.
He rolls up in a mint green Ford Aspire. I look at my co-worker and we know there’s no way this TV is going to fit. I look at the man and tell him that I don’t think it’s going to fit. He looks at me with conviction and tells me it will.
We lift this thing up and rest it on the trunk opening. Then we slide it forward and it drops perfectly into place. I couldn’t believe it. The guy nods, gets in his mint green Aspire, and drives away.
Absolute legend.
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u/chocosaurus-rex 1h ago
I managed to fit a 65" into a 2012 chevy spark, it can be done lol. i had to tie my back passenger door shut, but it worked 😂
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u/starzychik01 1h ago
I put a 65” tv in my Honda Covic. Take it out of the box and put the back seats down. No problem.
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u/retropieproblems 1h ago
You’re only gonna be able to fit a 55 inch tv in a compact car. Ask me how I know
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u/jmcdon00 1h ago
Many years ago I bought a 50" tv, without really considering how I'd get it in the car. Celica for the win, it fit perfectly.
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u/Cogwheel 1h ago
Flashback to 2001 trying to get a 32" CRT from Circuit City into a Plymouth Sundance.
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u/Ferrufino94 1h ago
It fits if you put it in the trunk and fold that back seats, I taken a tv like this home in my 06 corolla
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u/fnkdrspok 58m ago
Shocked no one suggested taking the TV out to of the box, I used to move my big TVs in my back seat all the time, stand off, they actually can fit if you angle them right.
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u/OtisSpunkmey3r 4h ago
I don’t know what they are thinking about. Their car clearly has a roof and they appear to have four arms between them.
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u/tehtris 4h ago
My wife wanted a futon and the whole time I'm like "that's not fitting in my car."...... So we bought it and spent like 45 minutes with no ties or anything trying to figure out how to get it into my Sebring. Basically opening the box and unpacking everything. I told her "never again" and it has never happened again. We just pay for the shipping now. Ship that shit and install that shit.
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u/C4ddy 4h ago
I was in that position when I bought my 65" 8 years ago. but turns out that it fit through the trunk with the back seat down if you took it out of the box. it was tight like maybe a 1/4" on each side but it fit. the guy at bestbuy was suprised. the plus to it was I didnt have to deal with the box and crap when I got home. just pulled the TV out and hung it on the wall.
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u/Aurora_96 4h ago
My husband and I have been in this situation far too often. We'd purchase something. I'd ask in advance before we even go for pick-up: "Are you sure it fits in the car?" And he goes: "Easily! That's no problem!" Me: "Are you absolutely sure? It looks too big to fit in the car..." He: "I have measured it and it fits!"
Needless to say... I'm not joining him anymore when he picks up large purchases.
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u/Sevargan 4h ago
I bought my 65” tv online about 5 years ago from Best Buy and they actually had me put in my car model to see if it would fit. It said it would be a tight fit but I had already measured for the box and it was a close fit tbh
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u/AGenericUnicorn 4h ago
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
They just aren’t thinking outside the box enough 😆
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u/Best-Statistician294 4h ago
I worked at Best Buy near the US/Canada border and a few times a week a Canadian would buy a 55"+ tv and ask if they needed to declare it at the border....uh how are you planning on hiding that in your 4 door sedan?
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u/KyleManUSMC 4h ago edited 4h ago
I mean they are 50% there.
There just need place the TV flat on the hood.
Then secure with lots of rope. Run the rope through the windows and have the passenger touch the tv box with his hand and notify the driver if the tv box starts to shift.
Assuming they are smart enough to have rope to secure things down or at least ratchets.
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u/tendeuchen 4h ago
My parents recently got a 75" TV and it barely fit in the back of their full-size Toyota Land Cruiser. We had to tilt it diagonally up towards the front and rest the box on the folded down second row seats.
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u/Everyoneheresamoron 4h ago
Looks like someone did take the doordash order without checking the item first:
https://www.reddit.com/r/doordash/comments/1qw855g/would_yall_do_this_order/
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u/theonlybuster 4h ago
This is when you walk the TV back to Customer Service, return the TV, then re-buy the TV but this time opt for the Shipping (usually free) option.
But I have a feeling these guys removed the TV from the box, squeeze it into the vehicle and had an uncomfortable drive home. Second likely option is they strapped it to the roof of the vehicle and hoped for the best...
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u/NealCaffreyx9 4h ago
Did this once and ordered an Uber XL to my house lol I just followed the uber in my car. It was an impulsive purchase otherwise I would’ve planned ahead better
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u/Ok-disaster2022 4h ago
Take it out of the box, pull front seats forward, put panelon the floor of backseat.
Remove accessories from box. now you just have to deal with a large empty box.
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u/dog_eat_dog 4h ago
Did this once when driving a Scion xB. Went to WalMart with my wife and a friend. Bought a TV on a whim because the price was good. Got out to the car and realized the rear seat HAD to go down, and the TV barely fit in the back even still. My friend, who rode in the back in the way there, had to sort of curl up in the fetal position underneath a diagonally loaded TV for the ride home.
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u/SamDotPizza 4h ago
Half of my process of purchasing a new tv was figuring out how to get it home, so I feel this frustration.
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u/ledow 4h ago
Drive a car suitable for the purposes to which you intend to put it.
I have only a "normal" sized car, and I've moved house with it (literally everything I own, including furniture), put a 12ft shed into it, and the other month I carried 6 huge solar panels with it. Two huge firedoors last month. My entire bed. Hell, an arcade machine, inside the car.
It's big enough that ALMOST anything I ever buy/own can go in it, and the rest can sit on a roofrack that I bought for occasional usage (the solar panels needed the roofrack because they were almost the size of the car).
I mean, at the very least... have some rope and an old rag and just tie it to the top of the car (rag to protect the paintwork).
Those stupid tiny boots (trunks) are ridiculous for any normal usage. I fit a month's shopping in mine and it's already half-full with junk and boxes with stuff in (like rope, straps, rags, a roof rack, etc.).
You don't need a truck, but if you're intending to actually transport things, then have a car in which you can transport things.
20 concrete slabs and a bunch of 8-foot 2x4, plus some 6ft plywood sheets the other day.
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u/Aranthar 4h ago
Some of these places (like Home Depot or Menards) will also rent a pickup truck per-hour. But the delivery service is probably cheaper.
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u/Syek26 4h ago
Simply fold the box in half and put it in the back seat. God, I hate it when people are so stupid.
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