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**What Happened:** I was in the parking lot when I saw these two guys, one wearing a cap that clearly said “I know all about electronics” and the other just nodding along, staring wide-eyed at a massive 65-inch TV. They were scratching their heads trying to figure out how to fit this behemoth into a compact hatchback. Picture them measuring the TV and the car with exaggerated hand gestures, as if trying to convince themselves that the TV could somehow bend through the trunk like some kind of magical origami.
**Why It’s Funny:** The scene was straight out of a slapstick comedy. With each failed attempt to shimmy that TV into the car, they looked more and more like confused magicians who couldn’t make their rabbit disappear. One guy even suggested they take the seats out—like that was a solid plan. At one point, I almost expected them to start arguing about whether removing the opening would somehow make the TV magically smaller! The sheer determination in their expressions made it hard not to laugh, especially when they finally decided it was time to call a friend with a truck, only to realize they forgot to put the TV back in the box.
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I managed to squeeze a 65” into my tiny Ford Focus once. Half the workers in Best Buy that night were laughing at me with the driver seat pushed as far forward as it could go, but by golly, I got that thing home that night.
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I used to sell TVs and once got a 65” into a two door coupe for a customer. His seat was all the way to the steering wheel and made him sign off on it being his responsibility if anything happened.
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Used to work at a sporting goods store that sold gun safes. We made it very clear that once you left the property, it’s on you. Well, some don’t heed that warning and one called complaining that it fell out of the bed of their truck into the middle of an intersection. It was off property but very close by, so I had to go out with a forklift and pallet. What’s fun is having people pick up safes during a blizzard, like they think it’s the best time to be doing that.
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Santa might nick a glock, you know, while you’re sleeping.
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I once transported a tv in a Miata. I ratchet strapped it to the rollbar
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It’s all abt the trunk opening size really
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Hell yeah! I once got a queen size bed in my hatchback and drove it 3 hours with my chest to the steering wheel. 10 years later I still have the bed and the car.
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Just an FYI for future, you can’t actually sign to claim responsibility for any damages that arise as a result of professional negligence. If something had gone wrong their lawyer could have made the argument that their poor idiot client got duped by the trained employee who cared so little about their job that they let him drive away with cargo that any reasonable employee would have known to be improperly loaded. You had him sign a waiver, and whilst that waiver wouldn’t be admissible in court, it certainly would be strong proof that you knew the goods were improperly loaded.
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You’re not wrong but this is the problem with the world.
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He actually is wrong. The clauses are valid unless you can actually prove there was criminal negligence. If what you sign clearly outlines what you are doing is stupid and carries risks and then said described risk occurs, you can’t hold them accountable for that. Once you purchase the item the store isn’t responsible for transportation unless that was a part of the terms. If they choose to help you load the item and then tell you it’s not safe to drive with it poorly secured and then you drive anyways, that’s not on them.
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What year focus was it? They’re not tiny cars 😂
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Was at an IKEA one time and watched a family of four try and fit an entire couch in the backseat of a Honda Accord. They all seemed to have brain lock and just kept picking it up, figuring the end wouldn’t fit into the door opening at all, and putting it down again. Over and over.
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I was eating at a Hardee’s in Roanoke, VA, and watched a group of people in the parking lot next door put a live cow, looked to be about 7 or 8 months old, in the back of a Ford Expedition. I have seen some crazy shit, but that one takes the cake. A cop pulled up, and I thought he was gonna bust them for transporting livestock without a trailer, but he just walked up to the Expedition, pulled out his phone, and took pictures of the cow in the SUV, before walking back to his cruiser laughing his ass off. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
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I help my local Amish slaughter pigs when I’m bored. Had four men come to pick up a whole (butchered) hog in a Chevy Impala. They had two guys sit in the back seat and laid the pig across their laps.
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This comment triggers so many questions…
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What’s so weird about two guys in the back of a truck gripping their hog together?
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Phrasing!
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No, I think the question as is was valid
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It’s weird that I wasn’t invited, I love gripping a big hog ✊️😤
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Everyone needs a hobby. Some people pull out a sudoku book when they’re at a loose end, others round up and end some livestock
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Probably better off not thinking about it
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When you say bored are you saying it’s not for pay? Like it’s entertainment?
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*Ed Kemper has entered the chat* Boredom is a funny thing
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When I’m bored, I usually play a video game or something.
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You don’t play with your air fryer? I’m a farmer (in my free time), so we all help each other.
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Don’t we all help Amish slaughter pigs in our spare time? I mean, it’s so common place, hardly needs to be said!
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See, this guy gets it
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Hey Star City!
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Not every day I see my hometown randomly mentioned on Reddit!
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Yeah, me and my girl were in town for Big Lick Comicon. I want to say it was the Hardee’s on Jamison, and they loaded the cow in the parking lot of the tobacco store next door.
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Years ago, I tied a calf’s legs and stuck it in the back seat of a 1973 Pontiac Catalina so I could bring it to my uncle about 40 miles away. I stopped by the house for a quick shower. When I came back out, that thing had gotten loose, was in the front seat, and had shit all over that car. I popped open the trunk and stuck it in there (should have done that to begin with) where it peacefully rode over to my uncle’s house. Haha! I haven’t thought about that in years! Good times!
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My dad loves to tell the story where a guy showed up asking for a cow. He told him a price and showed back up with a topical white van. He was very interested to see this go down because the animal was like 700 lbs. then they started putting out newspaper in the van and pulled out a revolver. Dad was like, nah you can’t kill it right here! I don’t think ppl realize how much blood these animals have. That van would be useless if that happened
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I remember once watching a couple tie a queen or king size mattress to the top of their car that looked about the same size as the one in OP’s photo, maybe a little smaller, and driving off. It wasn’t very windy that day, but anywhere they lived, they’d be on the highway for at least couple minutes…
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My wife has had, not 1, but 2 separate times that there’s been a car in front of her on I-95 with an improperly secured mattress that came off. Luckily she didn’t get hit either time. But wtf.
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I used to work as a mechanic and we had a box truck get towed in one time, said they hit a mattress and the truck stopped moving. The mattress had exploded on the underside of the truck and the springs were twisted around the driveshaft in a truly unbelievable mess.
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I am sure the driver and the passenger had really good grips. What possibly could go wrong?
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My husband witnessed a hot tub fall off the back of a pick up truck on the freeway going full speed. It was thankfully behind him. He didn’t see the aftermath but yikes!
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I watched one of these on a downtown street late at night as I was waiting to cross at a crosswalk. A full size sedan with a queen matress on top and 4 guys each with one hand out the window holding on to it. It caught air just as they passed us and flew straight up then landed in the road, looked like the guys in the back seat held on a little tighter because it kinda bent in half upward before flying off entirely. Me and my couple drunk friends just about died laughing for the next few minutes. I still chuckle when I think about it 15 years later.
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In college we were moving at the end of the semester. It was only a few streets and there were alleys. No one had a truck or anything so we threw a blanket on the roof of my buddies Nissan mirage, flipped the table upside down on top and just held the one end of the table walking behind while he drove slowly
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I once (1982) took a queen size mattress on the Chicago El for about 15 to 20 miles. Both the store and my apartment were within a block of a station. It included changing trains on the elevated section in the Loop. Getting through the turnstiles was the biggest issue. None of the conductors said squat.
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I was this person, but had a Tahoe and so I figured I could make my boxes fit by myself. I could not – they were just too tall. Two guys with a pick up truck saw me scratching my head, and asked if I needed help. I asked if they’d be willing to drive it to my house 10 min away in their truck for $50, they were game, so they followed me to my house and unloaded it on my porch for me. I Venmo’d them $50, no furniture was stolen, and my trust in humanity was restored 🎉
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For future reference, Lowe’s and Home Depot offer pickup truck and box van rentals for $20 + local sales tax. 70-90 minutes. Can’t remember which place is which time length. No mileage fee, and just have to bring your proof of insurance, and make sure to top off the gas. I’ve brought home TV’s and mattresses that way. May not work for everyone depending on how far you live between places, but if you can time it right it is a good deal.
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Selling on Facebook Marketplace has made this happen more than should be humanly possible. People ask me if they can fit a 7 foot tall etagere/large bookshelf in their sedan. People message me asking stuff like that all the time. I also had to give a mid-40’s to 50’s man my bungee cords from my car because he couldn’t fit this chair and ottoman into his. He kept trying to jam it into place when it was obvious it wasn’t going to work the ways he was orienting it, and I had to give him a tutorial on how to use the cords, because he kept using them in bizarre ways. Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m living in an alternate universe, because how don’t people have any common sense?
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It makes me think the idea that most people are a kind of soulless clay golem is closer to reality than I’d initially thought. I work at target and this dude came up to me with a random picture of a package of troll toys from Google, which indicated it was at least on Walmart’s website and asked if I had it here, because ChatGPT said I do. “Did you happen to check target.com or our app? It’s usually much more accurate… 🫠” “no it says here you have it” “well this is actually Target, not Walmart but let me check on our app for you real quick… Yeah sorry we don’t have anything like that in our store unfortunately” “really?!” 💀
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I don’t get it. I had a whole kitchen delivered from IKEA, 200 items/boxes and the fee was just $40. Well worth it, just alone for not having to pick all those items from the warehouse myself
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The last time I ordered delivery from IKEA, it took them about three months and multiple attempts to deliver my packages. They lost three bookcases, delivered one of them broken, and lied about coming by and attempting delivery. It really is just based on who your local delivery company is that IKEA outsources to – at least in the St. Louis area, XPO logistics is absolute garbage.
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It’s been a few years ago but when an IKEA opened in my city on the far outskirts, went for the first time, I decided I wanted to buy a desk. It wouldn’t have fit in my car but I figured that’s fine, surely a furniture store offers some sort of delivery service. Iwas informed that they contract delivery to a third party and it was going to cost me over $250 to have $150 desk delivered 20 miles. I was so dumbfounded. It was fractions of the cost to just go rent a uhaul. I haven’t went back since. Hopefully shit has changed.
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I wondered if people judged us (both women) while loading a 65″ TV in the Walmart parking lot into our Honda Fit. To be fair, it did fit! We had taken our Toyota Highlander to pick it up and it wouldn’t fit through the back. We measured the box, went home, measured the Fit’s opening and went back to get it. Slid right in without issues.
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Used to have a 2000 Acura Integra hatchback. People were always amazed at things that fit easily in that thing.
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Hatchback supremacy, because why cut the rear cargo space vertically in half? Drop the seats and we got ourselves a mini cargo van
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