It’s part of NPR’s ‘My Hero’ series where listeners call in and talk about someone who helped them out and they don’t know their name but wanna say thanks. I heard this one while driving home last night.
This woman was overloading her car with 1500 lbs [680 kg] of gravel. She had concrete being poured at her house so was short on time. A guy offered to take the gravel in his truck. He dropped it off and left and she’s saying thanks because she never got his name.
He reminded her of her dad who has passed way. Opposite of cursed I’d say
What if the gravel he delivered was from an ancient Egyptian burial ground?
Then the Brits will surely be coming for it
Men are always interrupting women while they’re loading 1,500 pounds of gravel into their cars, and I’m sick of it.
It really goes to show how they are still discriminated against in today’s society
God forbid women have hobbies
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The actual story is that some guy helped her out:
It still pisses me off. Who knows how many idiots drive around with tons of gravel in their cars?
And he says, do you know that your car has a weight limit? And I’ll be honest, no. That feels to me like something your dad would tell you
The (lack of) quality of US drivers ed never ceases to amaze me.
the under rating of cars weight limits never ceases to amaze me, most cars can absolutely haul a half ton safely but few are rated for it, most half ton trucks can haul a couple tons safely, yet are only rated for half of one.
“Can haul” and “can haul safely” are different.
She was loading bags of gravel into a Toyota Corolla. Sure, it’ll drive, but will it brake?
If she should crash into something there’s also a huge difference in having a heavy passenger wearing a seat belt and loading the back seats with bags of gravel.
This right here. Towing capacity is “will it go” and payload capacity is “will it stop” One should try not to go over on either.
They probably assume people just stuff their shit into the trunk so I guess the weight limit usually also includes a safeguard for weight distribution limits.
They also add a bit of a buffer for manufacturing tolerances along with allowing the rating to stay the same throughout the projected life of the vehicle.
Huh. Now I wonder if this will work:
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