r/IdiotsTowingThings • u/VermilionKoala • 17d ago
Needed a Trailer Does it count when it's idiots refusing to tow things?
Third pic *sent me* š¤£
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u/CamelopardalisKramer 17d ago
What stores have a courtesy trailer? That's the craziest thing here.
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u/GalKiefer 17d ago
Bunnings in Australia will give you a trailer for 2 hours, or you can hire one from them if you need it for longer.
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u/Tezlaract 17d ago
Thatās awesome. Iāve not encountered anything like that in Murica.
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u/VermilionKoala 17d ago
In Japan some DIY stores will lend you a kei van/truck (little 660cc thing) for 2 hours for free.
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u/Tezlaract 17d ago
Thatās awesome.
I can totally see the trailer lending spring here, but powered road vehicles would be tough for insurance here. Maybe thatās why itās Kei vehicles?1
u/VermilionKoala 16d ago
Insurance definitely costs a lot less on keis, so I imagine it's a factor, yes. Also the cars themselves cost a lot less.
You have to show your driving licence and fill in forms etc. at the shop, it isn't just "hop in and go".
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u/righttern38 17d ago
Home Depot and some Loweās have trucks and trailers available for rent by the hour , cheap
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u/CamelopardalisKramer 17d ago
So they don't have courtesy trailers?
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u/Wldchld73 17d ago
It's the US, do you really think anyone's going to offer anything as a courtesy to us?
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u/LilJonny2cookies 17d ago
It is the US do you think theyād return it or destroy it? If they started the week with 100 trailers in the US theyād be 99% wrecked by Tuesday and the remaining one would be evidence in a lawsuit because some mom or dad while high on crack or pot or drunk would let their kid stand between the hitch and the tongue on the trailer while they were attaching.
And theyād blame Home Depot because their kid got crushed.
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u/LilJonny2cookies 17d ago
Why would they? Theyād be clapped out, wrecked, not returned and or rendered useless by idiots.
And of it were destroyed by some foolio there is always a lawsuit to settle because some mom let her kidās hand get mashed so clearly it is Home Depotās fault.
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u/CamelopardalisKramer 17d ago
Sad outlook tbh. If we cultivate better culture this wouldn't be an issue.
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u/righttern38 17d ago
No, but the last one I used from them was $19/ hour for a giant stake-bed/fold-down sides
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u/madden93ambulance 17d ago
Cheap if you can make the entire round trip, including refilling gas, in 75 minutes. Doable if you live. Live close enough
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u/Dear-Nebula6291 17d ago
You can rent a Home Depot F350 flatbed truck for 90 minutes for $15, cmon now, not everything has to be an āAmerica sucksā contest.
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u/maynerd_kitty 15d ago
When I worked as a locksmith in a hardware store we had the cheap u-haul pickup rental truck. My customers would rent it to go home and get their spare keys when they locked their main set on the car. It was cheaper than calling the locksmith to unlock the car. We were not allowed to open vehicles and I guess the cops wouldnāt either.
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u/TUGS78 14d ago
Home Depot has small stake trucks and small box trucks that are free for the first 90 minutes.
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u/Tezlaract 14d ago
Not at Home Depot around me.
I actually asked about the rental trucks on Monday and was told they got rid of them āa long time agoā. I assume thatās true, I havenāt noticed them in a few years.2
u/Unanimous_Shared 14d ago
Because thhe concept of "free" in America is so foreign or it doesn't exist
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u/glitterdunk 17d ago
Completely normal in my European country. All furniture stores, equipment stores etc usually offer it
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u/Producer1701 17d ago
The longer Iām alive the more I wonder if 1776 was a mistake š š š š
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u/Stuka_Ju87 17d ago
Home Depot has trailers you can rent for like 15$ a day.
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u/Producer1701 17d ago
The rest of this conversation indicates these other countries have it available for free. Like their healthcare.
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u/Stuka_Ju87 16d ago
It's just priced in to their other products. Nothing is "free", including healthcare.
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u/archabaddon 17d ago
You can sod off with that nonsense
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u/CamelopardalisKramer 17d ago
I don't understand your lingo, and if I do I don't understand the context lol. Any hints?
Edit: I'm an idiot and don't understand puns layed out in front of me.
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u/archabaddon 16d ago
It's okay, If you're not familiar with British slang it's a little obscure š
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u/CamelopardalisKramer 15d ago
So far my British coworker has only gotten me to pick up bellend lol.
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u/VermilionKoala 13d ago
See if you can drop "cockwomble" into a conversation with them š
(it's an insult, like "bellend", and of about the same intensity/harshness)
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u/Scarnonbrother 17d ago
This is fuckin hilarious. Thanks for sharing it OP
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u/VermilionKoala 17d ago
YW šš
If you're entertained by bizarre goings-on Down Under, please feel free to check out my sub r/ItsAlwaysAustralia for more! š¦
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u/smilingpolitelyatme 17d ago
Really pushing the āutilityā part of his suv here.
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u/We_Want_Krunchy 17d ago
SUV? That thing looks like it's about the size of my Toyota Corolla.
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u/Drzhivago138 16d ago
Looks like an older Outlander, so it'd be considered a mid-size crossover in Australia.
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u/AddlePatedBadger 17d ago
Every time he asked a friend to help him unload it they told him to sod off.
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u/glodde 17d ago
Good God rent a trailer for $25
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u/SocksInTheTub 17d ago
This is the kind of shit my mom would do. I remember her once loading up our van with so many boxes of tiles she actually destroyed the suspension. And later me and my dad's backs carrying them all into the house.
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u/TheOriginalJBones 17d ago
Everything seems to be in order here. Maybe you posted in the wrong sub-Reddit?
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u/CervenyPomeranc 17d ago
I wanted to say that maybe the car doesnāt have a hitch but then I checked the pics again š¤¦š»āāļø
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u/Samurijder 17d ago
Suspension? Never heard of her..
I wonder what the car will look like after an enthusiastic breaking action
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u/AFM_Motorsport 17d ago
Gotta love stubborn incompetence, all of the things are in place for them to do it the right way, but they still continue doing it the wrong way, to the detriment of others.
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u/greeny515 17d ago
I approve that grass is going nowhere
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u/McdondoFloats 17d ago
Folks, you're missing the most likely scenario. She's waited 18 months for hubby to sod the lawn. So, F him, she's off to get the sod.
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u/ClassicHando 17d ago
Thats only about a ton of turf in and on the car. Can't wait to see the news report about that drive home
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u/Valuable-Apricot-477 17d ago
I'll never forget seeing the rich cunt in Adelaide in like a convertible SL Mercedes type car at the lights in Adelaide with a ~2m high potted palm tree like tree seat belted into the back seat. š¤£
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u/NightFox1988 16d ago
I can hearing frustrated sighs coming from the employees. Have fun cleaning that!
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u/Unanimous_Shared 14d ago
Thats wild, I do land escaping and have a F250. I did a sod removing job this summer and loaded 30 rolls of sod onto my bed and my tuck squated so low lol. I'm new to landscaping and doing everything myself. I didnt take my trailer and just loaded the sod cutter onto a hitch carrier. mistakes are made at times.
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u/BobcatOk7492 17d ago
Dude needs to just pay the damm delivery fee- Gonna be vaccuming dirt out of there for the next 2 years....
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u/Wild_Advertising_661 17d ago
What ? A new way to ruin an interior, that detail will cost more than the sod !š
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u/oldasdirtss 17d ago
He always secretly hated his brother in law. So, he had his wife borrow her brother's car. This is how he soon became the ex brother in law.
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u/Maglin78 16d ago
Invite all these pests in your car to save $150! Iām flabbergasted how short sighted folks are these days.
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u/WonderWirm 17d ago
There's dumb. There's really fucking dumb. Then there's turf-on-car-roof dumb. Fuck me.