I was thinking about starting a thread about SUV/Truck drivers, but I’ll post it here, since it’s related:
I see a lot of SUV or large pickups swerving to avoid manhole covers that can’t be any more than an inch deep. If there are several along the road, they’ll avoid every friggin’ one! The first time it happens, I usually think they are avoiding an animal or other object in the road, so I prepare myself to avoid the same object. That’s really irritating and I automatically put you in the “fucktard” category.
Seriously, if my Kia Rio can take inadvertently hitting a 5 inch deep pothole, your Ford F350 can certainly go over a manhole cover! What is that about anyway? I don’t see the reasoning for it. I know your truck is an extension of your precious ego*, but it is not a Fabrege fucking egg!
*In some, but not all cases (before I get jumped on)
I know you said it was inadvertent, but if you were to make a habit of going through 5" potholes without at least slowing down some, I’d say you really are a nutty bunny. 5"? That’s a pretty deep pothole IMO.
I just want to say that this thread is of interest to me. I’m learning that there are very few human actions, no matter how benign, that piss off some segments of society.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m as retentive as the next guy. I’ve got a whole list of things (including plenty of parking lot related behaviour) that annoy me to no end that are at the end of the day just a useless waste of thought and energy.
This, however, is a new one.
I don’t recall ever feeling put-out because of thinking that someone was going slower than a prudent speed over a speed bump. I’ve never made an association between speed bump approach speed and SUVs. And even after reading some of the relatively gentle vitriol in this thread, I still don’t find myself nodding in agreement to much of anything herein.
Call this the anti-pitting.
Have a good day!
I think you’ve missundertood the intent of my post. While I might agree it’s slighty irritating, the going slow part, the wise driver would go slow to save money on repairs. My suv is a spring doe compared to some of the battleships out there but I doubt (actually I know for a fact) that suspension components are no cheaper to replace. Speed bumps are pretty much made for stupid people. Go slow or fuck up your suspension.
Unless your talking about monster trucks or prerunners. Don’t see many of either tooling around in parking lots. 
Those are *speed bumps * in those shopping center parking lots?
Sheeeitfire boys, I thought them was launching ramps for my Hemi!
Hell yeah it’s got a Hemi!!
It was a short person with broken ribs doubled over in pain and lying flat on the backseat while puking on the floor (the Macy’s meds make you queasy).
Show some consideration why dontcha!
A clarification and an addition:
The original fucktard wasn’t going slowly over the speed bumps. She was sloooooowly driving up to them, stopping, inching the front wheels over at a glacial pace, stopping again, then repeating the process with the rear wheels. Continents move faster.
The fucktard de jour is also an SUV. An F350 with dualies, who decided that he needed two parking spaces at the store, so nobody would scratch his precious paint. I actually gave serious thought to launching a cart at his fender, but the silly things have plastic bumpers now and it wouldn’t have had the desired effect.
If you insist on driving something that silly, then you needed to accept the fact that your parking place is in the outer reaches of the lot, where there is plenty of room for your ego as well as your truck. If you insist on parking that beast as close to the door as possible, across multiple parking places, be prepared for people to judge you and find you wanting - mentally, morally and aesthetically.
Good point, but it seems to me that people are ready and willing to judge without any driving or parking infraction at all- it’s just 'cause you’re YOU driving that vehicle, fuckwad!
Always bugged me, and seems stupid and beneath most folks around here.
I don’t mean to pick nits, but an F350 Ford with dualies would be a pickup. Sraight up. My manufacturer offers pickups up to 5500 ton rating. Hardly a fair comparison with an suv. Most max out at about 3 tons.
Oh, glad you didn’t launch the cart. Even the chance of it would get you a severe beating, not to mention your ride. I’m just a little girl and I could cause 5 to 7 thousand worth of damage to just about any vehicle with one size 14 Danner.
It’s the thought that counts though. 
At least most folks can go over speed bumps. One of our cars, we have to plot our routes around them. Yes, there are some parking lots we actually cannot enter. 
Two points:
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An F350 is not a Sport Utility Vehicle. It’s a work truck. Big difference.
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Given most parking lots these days, I’d guess it was taking up two spots because it doesn’t fit in one spot, not because the driver was trying to save the paint.
And, anticipating your “well then he shouldn’t have been driving it there” comment, I think people who drive work trucks should be allowed to buy food, too. If I’m coming back home after dragging a trailer or a big load of cargo somewhere, I’m not going to rent a little car to drive to the store–I’ll just find a place where I can park taking up two of the ridiculously tiny parking spaces (typically off in a corner of the lot or at the end of a row).
I disagree. If we start feeding the workers they will become all uppity. Look what happened to Marie Antoinette when she decided to be all nice and give the peasants cake. Were they grateful? I think NOT!
In my defense, the pothole was previously repaired in that parking lot and had reopened so I didn’t expect it to be a pothole again…so there.
And I would applaud your consideration in doing so. But if you, like the fucktard in question, parked at an angle across two spaces right in front of the store, you would earn my scorn and ire. This wasn’t any work truck (mea culpa on the SUV bit). This was a tricked out truck that has never seen a dirt road or a dangling branch. Strictly a show vehicle. I’d be surprised if the owner could even identify a hammer, much less use one.
You should have rammed his (or her) shit with a shopping cart.
You gotta take life by the horns!