Once again the minivan heavy portfolio pays.
*The damage to the drywall was like that from the store it was 75% off and being used to make some patches and fill a small renovation.
Home Depot
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infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 month ago
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not only did I haul drywall home in a minivan, I even had the foresight to buy a couple of 2x4s to act as rails to slide it on so the edges wouldn’t get chewed up by the rounded rear hatch opening.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 month ago
Have a camper minivan, and have on a number of occasions pulled the cushions out to haul.
PineRune@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I worked at home depot, and our manager made people sign a form before having a Hi-Lo load a pallet of floor tile into their truck because it would cause their suspension to bottom out. They’d do it, and drive off with zero leeway on their shocks.
We had one guy come in bragging about how his super-expensive hydraulic suspension could handle it. We loaded 2 pallets of tile into his truck bed. I bet he felt every little crack in the road driving to the job site.
Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You do feel every little bump and odds are your suspension will never be the same afterwords. But that’s why you do it with beater trucks and not anything you actually care about. My dad did the same thing except with landscaping blocks in an old salt truck he picked up for like $200. You can’t break a suspension that’s already broke.
Or that’s the theory anyways. In reality he wound up blowing the same rear tire 3 times on the trip home. Four times if you count the tire blowing again after the truck was parked. We kept having to pull over, dismount the tire, take it home, mount another used tire on the rim, take it back to the truck, and put it back on, and go until it blew again. Every time we had to do that I reminded him that I had told him before hand that he should bring the trailer.
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People that make memes and don’t spell check is my least favorite genre
agless@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Based on the top two “photos”, they must have just got done typing “generate” a few times, so I guess I can see how the error might have occurred.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Elsewhere in the thread someone shared one of the originals where text that’s mucked up in the above meme is clear as day. The crazy artifacting must come from some bizarre compression or automated touchup by an editing software. Maybe automated upscaling?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A lot of times bad spelling and grammar are both engagement bait ploys. People can’t resist clicking to make comments about it.
jdr@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I think they spelled “genera” correctly, but there’s no reason to use the plural here
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I thought they meant to use “genre”, which makes more sense because who calls a type of meme a “genus?”
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Be the change you want to see in the world
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Details.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe they have gonorrhea?
200ok@lemmy.world 1 month ago
See also: people struggling to fit IKEA packages in their vehicle.
Bonus: while the cursed, multi-directional-wheeled carts roll out from under them.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I prefer stuck mining equipment tbh
Avg@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They will rent you a fucking truck, it isn’t that expensive either.
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 1 month ago
in my experience, it’s better to fuck in a van.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Really it depends. Truck fucking can be way more fun, if you can find somewhere to bend over the tailgate while getting railed. It’s really quite exhilarating. But if you’re in the cab, van is definitely better.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Like $20 for the first 90 minutes. Makes it very affordable to not own a truck for the few times a year you might need to haul something home
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rented the biggest truck the had at home Depot.
American trucks are so shit that it still wouldn’t fit the small length of lino I had cut for my bunny room.
Shoulda just tied it to my little car and saved the 70 bucks.
ebc@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The store nearest me will deliver whatever you want for a $30 flat rate. I have a minivan so I can still carry a lot of stuff myself but for that price it lets me avoid messing with removing my seats so it’s worth it
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Genera?
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Genre.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Plural of genre. Still should have been singular “ganre” though, unless there are multiple genera of these images.
Ethalis@jlai.lu 1 month ago
I think the word genre comes directly from the french word (“genre”, meaning “type”), which in the plural form is “genres”. I don’t think “genera” means anything, it’s probably a typo
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah…no it isn’t.
proti@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it’s very much ai,
generation?Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Have, you lost Ted?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty sure that’s Italian for genre. Or a weird typo/autocorrect error/both 😁
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s actually English for “I’m so sneaky I found a way to bait people into commenting on my post”.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 month ago
Imagine buying truck just for this moment and then screwed up the loading part.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Best part is, there’s a hitch on the back, so buddy has used it with a trailer, just not this time when it would have been the ideal solution
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I bought a locker a while back, like the kind you would find in the employee room of a closing bed bath and beyond. It didn’t quite fit as expected so we ended up just tying the back hatch as closed as it could with a single rope and took back roads the whole way home. I don’t think we went above 20mph for fear of the damage this giant steel box would cause if it fell out. Also got a tetanus shot the next day because I managed to rip my hand on its rusted foot. Good times, I love that locker
tino@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Go to the Netherlands and see the same thing, but with bikes. I once brought back a 1,5 meter long wooden pannel under my arm. I didn’t anticipate the wind, which started to push me out of the road.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Believe me, those folks with the small cars had a plan. They just got carried away. Always amazed at what I can get into my Yaris with a little creative this thinking.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I loaded a deck joist into my Scion tC when I realized one of mine was rotten (while replacing the boards). I put it through the sunroof into the “trunk” (it’s a hatchback) and drove home like a majestic blue unicorn. It was beautiful.
Got home and my neighbor said, “You could’ve asked!” while gesturing to his pickup truck.
I said, “I wanted to see if it would work!”
_bcron@midwest.social 1 month ago
I got carried away with a 2004 Chevy Cavalier coupe at Ikea like 15 years ago. I bought a bedframe, nightstand, dresser, and a couple cheap wood chairs.
And then I saw a small cheap couch and decided to grab it impulsively on my way to checkout like it was a pack of gum or something.
I got everything except the couch to just barely barely fit, and I started looking at that huge box for the couch and thought “have I lost my mind” and had to go back in and return it right then and there
smort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
/r/miatalogistics
I’ve carried various 6-10’ pipes and poles sticking out the passenger seat of my Miata. Infinite vertical space! lol
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
We got the 12 ft skeleton into my wife’s Honda Fit. I mean, the box wouldn’t fit so the employees helped us load every single piece in, but we got it all in!
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The genus of these pictures is Artificilias. The species is intelligentia.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 month ago
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I was in college and needed to fix my apartment. I didn’t own a car and took the bus to Lowe’s. I called my buddy who had a car.
I’m in this picture.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I personally don’t know if they are real or not (they certainly don’t seem like it SHOULD be real). But maybe the text artifacts on the license plates and signs in the original post are just sponge tooled/liquefied to censor out businesses or a random person’s car identifier.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And this one makes absolutely no sense because a single search gives you hundreds of these pictures. It took more effort to generate these than to find them.
Liz@midwest.social 1 month ago
I really hope AI continues to have noticable failures. I have my doubts, but one can hope.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In genera, i think this is a pretty good comment.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is not limited to Home Depot. I once saw two ladies trying to fit three trollys full with an IKEA bedroom (bed, frame, mattresses, and a stack of PAX wardrobes, plus a heap of smaller items) into a compact car. A very compact car…
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“I NEED TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE BECAUSE I CAN’T TAKE A LOAD OF TWO BY FOURS ON A BIKE!!!”
*buys car*
*does shit like this*
It’s the pickup, a car designed to carry shit, that is struggling to carry shit that does it for me. Do American DIY shops not do Home Delivery?
limelight79@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I didn’t see anyone link to the original!
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s great having a work van.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow, a biblically accurate Honda accord
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bought a table saw during COVID. They only allowed pickup in the parking lot. You couldn’t rent vehicles because we were on lockdown. I had no choice but to pick it up with my Jetta.
People were laughing their asses off at me unpacking it and barely fitting it in the trunk. Styrofoam was going everywhere as I broke it. Had to throw all the packing material into a dumpster.
So embarrassing.
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same with IKEA, even though you can look up the exact box sizes online there are still people trying to fit a sofa into a Fiat 500.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 month ago
Cudos to the “My good gas mileage car can do this” crowd, though.
francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Listen Linda… Sometimes you go to HD, buy stuff, and then forget you have to get it home.
bonn2@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The accord driver 100% planned that out. Now if it was a good plan is up for debate.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Concepts of home improvement.
That, or they got the idea from watching Home Improvement.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
My wife’s mum was helping me move everything from a two-bedroom unit, in a Toyota Yaris hatchback. Completely filled the car with stuff. It took maybe six or seven trips back and forth, but we got it done eventually.
This was before I had a drivers license or much money, so I couldn’t just rent a truck, nor could I afford to pay a mover.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i have sn 8ft long trailer with a 4 ft long tailgate that csn extend the 8ft to 12ft yet i still had some 12ft long corrugate roof panels delivered by the store as they have s forklift to unload with
DannyMac@lemm.ee [bot] 1 month ago
At least Menards offers a truck you can rent temporarily to transport your large items home.
mtpender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bunnings shopper: “Finally! A worthy opponent! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!”
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Omg this was me when my dad and brother told me they’d strapped down studs in the back of my dad’s escort wagon. After taking the first turn I discovered that was a lie
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The guy with a truck had a concept of a plan
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You all laugh, but one time I was young, dumb, and just did what people told me to do.
In this regard, I found myself pulling a grain auger on a much-too-small flat deck trailer. The trailer was maybe 10ft long by 6 ft wide, so we put one wheel of the grain auger on the deck, and one on the external tail light of the trailer which was relatively sturdy. ‘are you sure this is a good idea?’ ‘fuck it, she’ll go. Just go slow’
So I start driving. No immediate problems. Turns out that going down a major, winding hill at the 100 km posted speed limit is not a good idea with an awkward load. It’s also a pretty interesting time to figure out that if you brake, you make the trailer sway worse. Hmm so speed up it is! Started at the top of the hill at about 90 km/hr and came out for it at about 120 km/hr. Lol.
And that’s just one of the times I shoulda died!
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve also got a story of other people saying “it’ll be fine” while I should have been thinking for myself.
I used to be a garbage truck driver. I was sent to pick up a bin at some fishing club. It was at the end of a dead end road. I drove my truck to the end hoping there would be enough room to turn the truck around. Of course there wasn’t. That’s when I should’ve just decided to back out, but I didn’t. I asked the members of that club if the garbage truck usually turns around or backs out. They said “sure you can turn it on the grass, they do that all the time”.
So I started turning, one small moment later, I was stuck in the grass. My back wheels just kept slipping and digging in deeper. I putting gravel and wooden boards under the wheels, but nothing really worked. In the end we got like 6 of the fingers to push the truck (10.000+kg) out of the grass… and they fucking did it! It took a little back and forth, but we managed to get the truck out with teamwork.
It was a pretty stupid decision of mine, but I learned from it. It was 10 years ago, but I still remember it well,because it was just and awesome experience of teamwork and humanity.
The_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I keep looking at it wondering … Why? The others are common. The truck, however took a little special reasoning.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Underestimating the bed rail loading. I’d love to make a Ford joke, but let’s be real, all truck beds would crumple like that.
ForensicFart@lemmy.world 1 month ago