Parking - in the new day an age - Rant

[turnkey4099]

My trucks are parked more now with the high fuel prices and I use our hybrid suv that is getting 41 mpg more.
I still see some trucks with 8 ft. beds at the grocery store. I've often wondered why they drive a big truck to get groceries. Maybe they just picked up a load of lumber or they're buying 500 lbs of groceries. More likely they have too much money and want to give some to the oil companies.

Or, as in my case. We both work. She has a car, I have a truck.

 

[turnkey4099]

I just use the back-up sensor
you know the thing that makes a sound when the trailer hitch hits the car behind you

That's my GMC. It beeps just as I connect.

 

[Jstpssng]

That's my GMC. It beeps just as I connect.

My mirror accomplishes the same thing. You know, the one on the passenger side which says "Objects in mirror appear just after you hit them."
I really like the backup camera on my Colorado. My company truck had one also, but it stopped working about a year ago.

 

[WinterDeere]

I just use the back-up sensor
you know the thing that makes a sound when the trailer hitch hits the car behind you

Funny. But trailer hitches are a major pet peeve of mine, I cannot stand people (mostly those who never actually use them) who leave them in, when not in use. It makes an excellent shin banger when you're walking around or between vehicles, and most of them just rust anyway, except the pretty aluminum ones people use for "show".

I use a hitch more than most I know, I own four trailers. But I remove the hitch and throw it under my back set every time I'm done with it, to save others the pain of walking into the thing, or the potential damage it could cause to another vehicle if the don't see it while parking behind me. I carry a few hitches with different drops and different ball sizes, and it's unlikely the next trailer I pull will require the same ball and drop as the one I just finished towing, anyway.

It seems to me that 99.9% of the people who drive around with a hitch on their truck all the time have it there for show, as most look unused. These are the same idiots buying truck nuts, or hanging a pair of clevises off their safety chain eyes.

 

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Funny. But trailer hitches are a major pet peeve of mine, I cannot stand people (mostly those who never actually use them) who leave them in, when not in use. It makes an excellent shin banger when you're walking around or between vehicles, and most of them just rust anyway, except the pretty aluminum ones people use for "show".

I use a hitch more than most I know, I own four trailers. But I remove the hitch and throw it under my back set every time I'm done with it, to save others the pain of walking into the thing, or the potential damage it could cause to another vehicle if the don't see it while parking behind me. I carry a few hitches with different drops and different ball sizes, and it's unlikely the next trailer I pull will require the same ball and drop as the one I just finished towing, anyway.

It seems to me that 99.9% of the people who drive around with a hitch on their truck all the time have it there for show, as most look unused. These are the same idiots buying truck nuts, or hanging a pair of clevises off their safety chain eyes.

I appreciated having it in needlessly when I got rear-ended by a hit-n-run once way back when we had a 'burb.

They took off before we got out of the car, and there was a trail of water from their busted radiator going backwards a few feet and then veering around the suburban and down the road. Don't expect they got real far.

Mine is often in; it makes a halfway-decent step for me to get into the back of my truck (no tailgate; the shell has panel doors so I can make one step onto the ball, another onto the bumper and then into the bed).

No truck nuts or clevises, must be a different idiot.

 

[Jstpssng]

Funny. But trailer hitches are a major pet peeve of mine, I cannot stand people (mostly those who never actually use them) who leave them in, when not in use. It makes an excellent shin banger when you're walking around or between vehicles, and most of them just rust anyway, except the pretty aluminum ones people use for "show".

I use a hitch more than most I know, I own four trailers. But I remove the hitch and throw it under my back set every time I'm done with it, to save others the pain of walking into the thing, or the potential damage it could cause to another vehicle if the don't see it while parking behind me. I carry a few hitches with different drops and different ball sizes, and it's unlikely the next trailer I pull will require the same ball and drop as the one I just finished towing, anyway.

It seems to me that 99.9% of the people who drive around with a hitch on their truck all the time have it there for show, as most look unused. These are the same idiots buying truck nuts, or hanging a pair of clevises off their safety chain eyes.

I've read of states where it's against the law to leave the hitch in for the reason you mention. Yet my drop only sticks out 7 1/4 inches beyond the bumper... if you bang your shins on that you pretty much are leaning against my truck. My peeve in parking lots is how people need to "arm" their locks. The first few times that happened as I was walking past I almost jumped on the hood, thinking they were about to run me over. Funny thing, I can lock mine without sounding the horn; yet the alarm will still go off if somebody tries to open the door. I know, that's how I found out that I have an alarm.

 

[Sigarms]

Thought of this thread last night...

Come out from the grocery store, guy drives right up, parks, smoking a cigarette, and the "lady" gets out to go in the store. Please note, right in front of the no parking sign fire lane sign. I'd say something to him, but I was carrying LOL

 

[LouNY]

I leave mine in because so many idiots seem to park by feel. Yes it can be a heck of a shin knocker but as mentioned your almost rubbing against and leaning on my truck to get your shin knocked, I have gotten my own on my own truck.
I've had paint on my trailer ball twice that I've noticed.
So it stays in to help prevent idiots from dinging up the bumper.

 

[solo machine]

Oh my gosh! Thats crazy. Pat Boone...WoW.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've had paint on my trailer ball twice that I've noticed.

I once found paint on my motorcycle helmet, which was hanging on the mirror. It also knocked the bike askew. The only way I could explain it was that somebody must have had a canoe or something on a rack, and caught the helmet in the tail swing.
Odd thing was that I was parked way out of the way, as the previous week I had watched some punk in the same parking lot hit my front tire as he tried to see how close he could get to it. He was showing off to his girlfriend... at the end of the day I doubt she was all that impressed.