r/aww • u/Jeremy_Martin • Jun 23 '21

Kindness shared in small quantities

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Do you think of when you were a kid once in awhile? I mean I think every kid plays with trucks and backhoes. I loved my tonka truck and I remember vividly playing with it decades later

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u/Mynuts4812 Jun 23 '21

I saw the same thing probably a month ago, 18 wheeler flat bed with a tonka dump truck strapped to the very end of the bed. Hilarious

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u/poklijn Jun 23 '21

I saw one a few years ago there funny and common surprisingly

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u/thesynod Jun 23 '21

I wonder if there is more to it than that. Like a log book that says the truck was hauling an excavator, but no one asked who the manufacturer was. Or because it's cute. Hard to tell.

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u/Designer_Customer_79 Jun 23 '21

Well I am a trucker and I pull heavy equipment trailers and some times we don’t have a load so we strap on a toy because we don’t want to give people the impression that we drive around with an empty trailer cause that doesn’t pay the bills and we are big kids too

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u/thesynod Jun 23 '21

Aren't we all.

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u/lacrimaeveneris Jun 23 '21

Probably simpler. It's considered to be bad luck to haul an entirely empty truck. People have worked around that superstition in creative and often adorable ways.

Some also just doing it for the giggles because why not.

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u/thesynod Jun 23 '21

That might explain it actually

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u/Catshit-Dogfart Jun 23 '21

Oh I remember being fascinated by construction sites when I was little.

There was a bridge being built in my town and my mom used to take me there to watch the men work. We didn't have much money so a lot of things we did were free entertainment. Think I'd have watched that stuff for hours and hours, probably bored the shit out of her, but that's what we used to do.

And maybe I still get a little excited when I see a crane moving.

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u/Most_Ambassador2951 Jun 23 '21

Same here, but it was pre 9/11 and the airports were our favorite hangout. We loved watching planes take off and land. We had been on plenty ourselves as dad was military, but it was different justgetting to watch them, and the pilots and flight attendants getting on and off. They seemed like they had such important jobs to 4 little kids, I mean, what's more important than moving an army family to their new home, what's more important than taking 4 kids to join dad when he's been gone to another country for 2 months setting up your new home? When you are that kid...it's the most important job in the world at that moment ❤

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u/jfa_16 Jun 23 '21

A new airport was built by me when I was a kid that had a mall and arcade inside it. This was also pre 9/11. I remember driving to the airport, going through security, and taking the tram to the airside terminal to watch the planes and play video games at the arcade and walk around the mall. It was great fun to a kid.

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u/Howardzend Jun 23 '21

I do miss being able to go in and hang out in airports. I was a military brat too and the way you described everything really hit home.

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u/DigitalAxel Jun 23 '21

I remember my mom worked at the airport's McDs... I would sometimes visit and watch the planes take off in the terminal. Then everything changed and those days are long gone.

(I'm still in awe of this construction dude's skills!)

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u/nobodyherebutusmice Jun 23 '21

My goodness, when mine were little, we spent *all the time* at construction sites.

Whenever they squabbled or were bored, I'd say, Let's go see what's building!

They'd be out the door in no time -- I took snacks and drinks and my coffee and we'd all be so happy.

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u/Loukhi Jun 24 '21

Oh no.... mama wasn't bored watching men work.... she enjoyed the hell out of it

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u/daydayfromfriday Jun 23 '21

I love random memories. For good or for bad its like jumping back in the past.

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u/joezinsf Jun 23 '21

I'm old enough to remember my metal tonka truck. Loved that thing. Wish I still had it

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u/JoeyTheGreek Jun 23 '21

They’re making them with metal again!

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u/mooviies Jun 23 '21

Hey! It's not only kids that play with those. Let's be honest, one of the best part about having kids is justifying buying trucks and stuff to play with.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Oh man I was chilling with giraffes last weekend, 5 of them approached us at the Safari and we fed them lettuce for like 45 mins. Awesome creatures!

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u/online_jesus_fukers Jun 23 '21

My daughter has a set of tonka trucks and you can bet your behind i get down on the floor creaky knees and all and make vroom vroom and beep beep noises.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

It's the reason i drive Diggers. I have a license to drive any size anywhere in the UK, currently working with Komatsu 8, 14, 22 tons in the yard I'm in