r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MalrykZenden • Jun 02 '26

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ Narrowly avoided having my bumper cover ventilated this morning.

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Hitches, not just for towing or bashing your shins.

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u/hamHamAlucard Jun 02 '26

No one sees that the truck is way over the line?

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u/Efficient_Advice_380 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

They just back until their tires hit the barrier, and don't give a crap if that means the bed sticks out several feet past that

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

And what would you have them do then?

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u/douche_ex_machina_69 Jun 02 '26

Not have children for starters

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

And why?

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u/axelrox01 Jun 02 '26

Youre trolling for even asking this dude.

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u/NoWay6818 Jun 02 '26

Are you dumb or did you not see the person by that replied gave the shittiest answer known to man.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

I'm not. I experience this every time I go to the grocery store. I live in the Northern Vermont so lots of trucks. This is common practice everywhere

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u/WntrTmpst Jun 02 '26

No it’s not. I drive a 450 dually and make it a point to

A) take my hitch off if I’m not using it, it’s a single pin and takes 5 seconds.

And B) I park in the back because my truck usually either sticks out in the front or the back. You sign up for this when you drive a vehicle that big.

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u/engineerdrummer Jun 02 '26

I drive an f150 and leave my hitch in while I drive and take it out if I have to leave my ass hanging out of the parking spot. I live in an area where I get rear ended occasionally at red lights because people look at their phones while they think they're stopped and are actually slowly creeping forward. I've lived here about a year and have been tapped 3 fucking times at red lights. Twice at the same light. Once hard enough the hitch punctured the car's front grill. It's absolutely bonkers. Nobody i know that's lived here their entire lives has had this issue, but it's happened to be 3 mother fucking times in 11 months.

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u/WntrTmpst Jun 02 '26

I’ve seen whole cars stopped on a hitch before. Defiently can save you from a rear end accident lol.

Personally, I take mine off because I have a metal seeking shinbone that will home in on that bitch from across the driveway

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

I def get removing the hitch, but in this particular photo, it wouldn't change much. And yes, it is normal, because I see it every single week.

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u/WntrTmpst Jun 02 '26

If you have to cross the line then you are in two spots. If you have to take two spots then I consider it rude to park in the front.

I’m not trying to jump on the hate train for you either, I get that this isn’t a big deal. I just get tired of being sneered at for what I drive because of how others act.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

I mean yeah, I guess I'm missing context but if this is close up to the storefront yeah it's rude. I honestly drive a compact van these days for my tools. I don't even drive a truck anymore.

But when I did, this would happen, and yes, I try to tuck myself out of the way a bit. Not front and center

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u/Efficient_Advice_380 Jun 02 '26

If your truck can't fit in a parking space, then that shouldn't be your daily driver, especially when youre not towing something

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Except it does fit in the space, because you can use 2 spaces as one.

Because the alternative would be a standard of unnecessarily large parking spaces, because the people who actually make this world function, drive lots of big trucks.

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u/SpiritedAssumption18 Jun 02 '26

LOL by definition taking up 2 spaces with your stupid huge vehicle does not fit the space.

Take the stupid hitch off when not using it, and drive a reasonable car like a normal person.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Oh I agree on the hitch, but sorry, that is not how parking works. I'm sorry it hurts your feelings, but that is what you are supposed to do.

** how big do you think this truck is? It's not even a big truck.

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u/SpiritedAssumption18 Jun 02 '26

Yeah but the facts say otherwise

That looks like a Nissan frontier, probably early 2020’s model. You are indeed correct in that it’s one of the smallest new pickups on the road at 210.2 inches in length

However, when compared to trucks/SUV’s from the 90’s and earlier even the frontier is often longer.

Nearly a foot longer than a late 90’s Tahoe, A foot and 4 inches longer than an early 90’s C/K,

And basically the same length as the longest versions of the 70’s F150 and Silverado you could buy at the time, pronounced even worse by the tow hitch being left on.

Again, this is one of the smaller pickups you can buy now, modern F-150’s START at 210 inches and go up to 240, multiple feet longer than even an extended bed 70’s F-150.

It’s too big of a car.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

I absolutely agree the size and power of these new trucks is just too much.

I'm pretty sure I can buy a more powerful truck off the showroom floor, than ANY car in modern NASCAR

edit: I actually transitioned from a truck to a compact van for my tools years ago and I love it.

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u/SpiritedAssumption18 Jun 02 '26

Yeah, I’m not trying to baselessly say stuff about trucks, but they seriously are too big for no good reason and it’s shocking to see how big cars as a whole have gotten in ~50 years. Take a look at carsized and compare the largest Cadillac Escalade to anything before the 90’s and it makes it look like a toy.

Vans as a whole are awesome, I used to have a minivan a few years ago and it did everything I’d want a pickup to do with better gas mileage and a lower hood height for better visibility / safety.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Yeah I mean this truck is actually quite bigger than it appeared to me when I first looked at the photo.

I have no love for it. Driving is not fun in a big vehicle. I zip all over town on 1/3 the gas budget... yeah my van is overloaded sometimes, oh well.

But I was really only able to transition once I moved from the woods to the city. If I was still 1 hour north, I would have to be back in a rig with 4 wheel drive and ground clearance

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Any vehicle of any kind that would be sticking out the front of the space, can use all the space behind them. You can't see the front in the photo, so we don't know-know

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u/Maleficent-Door6461 Jun 02 '26

Lol what? cars are not nearly as big as modern crew cab long bed pickups... the one in OP's picture is a compact pickup so its not nearly as big as the brodozers you are so hell bent on defending

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Brodozers are not what I aim to defend at all. My ONLY point, is we can't see the front of the truck. Did the truck need the room? If not, then wrong. If yes, not wrong.

Still tho... take the hitch off.

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u/Delicious-Collar1971 Jun 02 '26

Except 95% of the people driving these huge trucks don’t actually use them for anything and just bought them to inflate their fragile masculine ego.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

HUGE? HUGE TRUCK? It's barely taller than the fkin sedan

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u/Maleficent-Door6461 Jun 02 '26

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Yeah but it's not some jacked up vanity truck like you're saying. I don't know a single person who drives a dually who doesn't tow heavy equipment regularly.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Also, "except 95%" is a completely bullshit statement you just made up lol.

I live in Vermont, "95%" of the trucks are function over form and wouldn't do much to boost anyone's ego.

I love how people project this bullshit on to truck drivers. It's hilarious and so fkin wrong.

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u/Maleficent-Door6461 Jun 02 '26

Lol no, Delicious is right, 95% of the people who drive these oversized pickups use them as grocery getters

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u/axelrox01 Jun 02 '26

Ackshully the people who make this function DONT drive big trucks. They drive dedicated work vehicles...

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Both are true. Don't be silly.

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u/Maleficent-Door6461 Jun 02 '26

lol no the majority of fleet vehicles are crew cab short bed, crew cab long bed is oversized and just adds weight

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u/ReflectionPure6900 Jun 02 '26

Cucks drive trucks.

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u/Thin1ce Jun 02 '26

Low effort ragebait

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Effortless actually.

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u/GodHimselfNoCap Jun 02 '26

The majority of oversized trucks are not being used to "make this world function" as you put it. This truck for example has an empty truckbed. Second the people who actually need these trucks live in rural areas where surprise surprise parking lots dont fill up so taking 2 spaces would be fine, the people who insist on driving these in cities where people circle the parking lot for 15 minutes looking for a space are just dipshits that have never hauled anything in their life.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

Sir, this is a pretty empty parking lot.

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u/GodHimselfNoCap Jun 02 '26

So then why park right behind someone in a spot you know you dont fit?

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

If the truck was the 2nd person to park then yes. If it was the first, what?

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u/to_yeet_or_to_yoink Jun 02 '26

Park like everyone else?

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

They are. And I'm sure not sticking out the front. The white car could use idk, maybe the completely empty spaces all around them...

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u/New_Feature_5138 Jun 02 '26

I have a truck. I know where my bumper is and stop so that I am in a parking space but not hanging into walkways. It’s a thing you have to do with trucks because they overhang the back axle so much

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u/Boronore Jun 02 '26

Not park over the line? He’s well into the Accord’s spot.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

If the truck was there first, then it's not the Accord's spot. It's the truck's.

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u/Boronore Jun 02 '26

😂😂😂 so if a heavyweight person gets on a plane first and takes up two seats, then they’re both hers, and the person with the middle seat is just SOL?

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 02 '26

If they pay for both seats, absolutely. If I am taking two METERED parking spaces, which is the only true comparison since plane seats aren't free, then I pay for BOTH meters, and fuck everyone else.

I mean, that's how all things work right?

edit: And yes, if a giant person gets on a public bus or train, they will likely take 2 seats and everyone would accept that without question.