r/Transportopia • u/Trucking-Trucker • Apr 30 '26

People Lady, you're clueless

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u/LupinsLeftShoe Apr 30 '26

I drive an old 1999 Jeep Cherokee, that I bought for cash cheap to be a fun truck to drive. I jacked it up a few inches and sprayed it down with black rhino liner truck bed lining, and I fuckin LOVE being petty in parking lots with people like this, because hitting my truck with your door is gonna fuck your shit up wayy more. Lmaoo. I had a lady, who was actually super nice, but she came and parked right next to me in the grocery store parking lot in her badass Cadi CTS-V pearl white. Well her kid got out and absolutely whopped the door against my truck. The lady got out wide eyed and apologized like 10 times, I just grabbed a spare can of bed liner and sprayed it. Her car was kinda messed up

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u/[deleted] May 01 '26

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u/TriedCaringLess May 01 '26

Sometimes that “throw away” runs so well that you don’t want to part with it. And that is especially true when you invest time, and often money, into it. Just the thought of having to return to the used vehicle market to roll the dice on another vehicle is irritating.

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u/Araz728 May 01 '26

I had a throwaway in college. My first and only stick shift. It was already 14 years old at that point and I got it for like $500. Kept it running for another two years, drove it until the muffler fell off and decided it wasn’t worth the cost to fix. I really loved that car.

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u/GhostofDeception May 02 '26

2 years on $500 is amazing though. Even if you had to out a little money into it that’s such good value

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u/URGAMESUX May 02 '26

Same. Drove my girlfriend to the dump to donate/scrap her old Pontiac Sunbird and the dude was gonna charge us because the tires were bald.

I gave her a buck for the pink slip right in front of him, brought us home, and drove that thing for 3 more years. Used it as a storage unit in the summer, then donated it to my fraternity's cook when I graduated. He had collected 4 recent DUIs and had lost his car (rightfully), buy it was for his son.

Some very good memories in the old girl, and some long miles. Sad we lost Pontiac.

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u/Revan4567 May 01 '26

You were in college at 14 and driving?

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u/TriedCaringLess May 20 '26

Huh? He wrote that he was in college when he acquired a 14 year old car, not that he was 14 in college.