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  • Machinist@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Hate those fucken assholes. Pavement princess driving motherfuckers.

    It literally takes less than 30 seconds to bend down, pull the cotter clip, pull the pin, and toss the hitch end in the bed. Saves the shins and kneecaps of yourself and everyone else.

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      6 hours ago

      Knew someone who deliberately left it out because they thought it would help mitigate someone nudging into their backend.

      To their credit, it actually worked once, someone got a hitch sized hole in their front bumper for a low speed collision.

      On the other hand, this person also kept banging their own shin on their tow hitch… But they thought it was worth it anyway…

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          5 hours ago

          To this person’s credit, they always seemed to take backing up seriously and slowly and kept quite a distance from everyone… also very carefully parked as straight as possible, and never over any of the lines. Still since they only tow about once a week, it’s kind of silly to have that hitch in all the time.

          Unlike another colleague who doesn’t have a tow hitch, but always pushes his luck and has on occasion given a nudge to a parked car with his pickup, and never parks straight and usually parks over the middle lines…

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      8 hours ago

      I had an uncle that would quite literally do that and throw the hitch(es) into the bed of the truck every single time he walked through a parking lot. If he had to do that to multiple trucks before getting to the store so be it.

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        7 hours ago

        Good man.

        I do the same, but with bicycle lights that people have left on. I know how annoying it is to find your battery empty.

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      8 hours ago

      How else will anyone know that they used their truck for something more than getting groceries? They have to let everyone know they tow a lawn mower with the ridiculously large truck.