I figured we needed a thread to spout off about the idiots we come across in our travels in our trucks...... I'll start:

Today after lunch we stopped at the local Lowes to pick up a can of paint to repaint a wall we had just fixed the drywall on. As normal I folded back my mirrors as I was getting ready to get out of the truck....I always fold them back when I park in a lot where people might need to get by the truck so they don't have to duck under the biga$$ mirrors.
I get my paint and head back out to the truck....as I walk up there's a guy two spaces over loading stuff into the back of his truck...I jump in my truck, put my seatbelt on and start the truck.....then I reached for my clipboard with the job sheet on it so I can record the amount I just spent to the given job...as I'm doing that out of the corner of my eye I see the fore mentioned guy coming up to the side of my door....as I turn my head to see what he wants he grabs my mirror and jerks it out into the unfolded position!! WTF!! I roll down my window and say,"WTF!" He says,"Somebody must of folded your mirror back." I said,"Ah ya, I did!" I then checked the action of the mirror and it still worked...Ford has a override built into the system so you can't break it and once I was sure it was OK I let into him with every swear word I could think of!
Why would somebody touch a guys truck like that when he was in the truck? I was just dumbfounded that he had the ***** to walk up and do that to my truck with me in it.....good thing Ford planned for idiots like him....
Later I had a laugh at the expense of a dodge guy...I pulled into the bank to make my truck payment and as I rolled down my window I heard this clanking like a tin can full of nuts and bolts was being beat against the side of a tin shed and thought that my muffler had fallen off or something...I then looked in the mirror and saw the dodge ram!

 

The ones who are flummoxed by my EZDown tailgate thingy usually make me laugh - especially when they want to then show it off to others! Happens a lot at the feed store....

 

A kid working at a car wash did that to mine once, on my '08. Funny thing is, that guy probably thought you were the idiot who was about to drive away with your mirrors folded in. Lol

 

Perfect timing on this thread!!!

Today, my wife and I were heading up I-81 north toward Christiansburg for some shopping after dropping the kids off at school. As we headed north, I had my speed control set on 70 and was gradually catching up to a later model Impala also traveling north in the left lane. I'd guess he was going around 68 because I wasn't overtaking him very rapidly at all. As I was within about 300 - 400 feet of him, he slammed on his brakes and came to a complete stop in the left lane trying to turn through a crossover. Panic stopping doesn't even begin to describe what I had to do. Luckily there was nothing behind us but there was a line of vehicles next to us making it impossible to go anywhere else.

Fortunately I got stopped and moved over as soon as it was safe to do so. I did find out that my truck has VERY good brakes.

 

A few years back in my old 250 I had a similar incident. I went to the movies with some friends at the theater in Athens. When we came out, there was a couple of jerks that had opened my tailgate and were sitting on the back of my truck getting (more) drunk. I quickly summoned psychic abilities and told them what the immediate future held for them if they didn't pick up there beer cans, exit my truck, and raise the tailgate. Smartly, they complied. But man, that really pissed me off that people had the audacity to open my tailgate and get drunk in the back of it. These weren't college kids either, they were 30+ year old men. Now I probably wouldn't say anything, I'd just quietly get in my truck, start it up, and floor it!

 

People annoy me when they park right next to me, so close that I cannot open the door to get in. Even though the parking lot is nearly empty, they still park practically right on top of me.

 

Take two spots, buying a $55K+ truck earns you the right to two spots- anyone gives you any crap, tell them you pay more than double the excise tax that they do, so you get 2 spots.

 

Same thing happened to me only I was at the dealership, just got it serviced and they parked it out infront of the service area and folded in the mirrors. As I got in one of the "lot boys" asked if I needed him to extens my mirrors. I looked at him for a second, hit the button to extend them and said 'Dont think so" as they opened.

Here's your Sign......as Jeff Foxworthy would say.

 

This is funny keep em coming. Never underestimate the stupidity of the populous. So, back in 2005 we are rolling 400 miles down highway, me, wife, two little kids. Roll into parking lot at restaurant, as we stop, chick rolls in fast on pass. Side, wails open door, banging and denting door on the 2005 1 month old SD, walks away. Luckily, though I was catatonic, I was able to stop wife from "tearing said chick a new one". You just gotta wonder. If I had had the bumpers on ther!

 

I erased the cuss words and the bird finger, but a google search for mickey parking can opener will help you find the original. Print a few and place in glove box.

 

My buddy kept parking his car too close to my truck so I returned the favor one day.

 

NICE

When I was in college I went out to my truck at the end of the day to find this moron underneath it:



Lovely parking job, eh? I took pictures and had the transportation/parking department document it just so the other person couldn't get me for it. CYA...

 

As dumb of a story as this is, its really dumb without a diagram.
I was trying to make a left into a parking lot the other day, it was a two way street with a turn median in the middle. I put my blinker on to merge into the turn lane, and ultimately turn left, when out of the corner of my eye I see Jerk one, (blue) He pulls out of the mcdonalds and swerves into my lane. At first I thought he was about to fly into oncoming traffic but then I realize he is just pulling in the turn lane, ultimately stopping me from making my turn about 20 feet from the parking lot. So i sit and wait for him to merge into traffic, shrug it off with a "what an idiot" I start to pull forward again, when the next idiot from incoming traffic pulls right in front of me again. now im like 10 fee from the entrance, and again stopped from makign the turn because someone is blocking the lane. I wait, and wait, and he just sits there, like he realized he made a mistake an didnt know how to get out of it. So finally I go to to pull back into my own lane and go around him, well I guess he doenst know the laws of the road, because he goes to pull into my side of the road, and I guess drive 30 feet down the wrong side of the road until he could pull into the mcdonalds too. I have to swerve again, and just whip it into the parking lot I was aiming for, and allow him to drive down the wrong side of the road.

It was one of those situations where one guy really does something stupid and annoys the crap outta you, then just when you say hey, ill be the bigger man and not make a big deal of it, another idiot flys right up behind him and pulls an even dumber stunt.

 

Amen!! This drives me nuts. The worst place seems to be the grocery store parking lots. Arrggg!!!

 

Back in the summer I was driving home to Austin from Dallas via I35 (which is a horribly dangerous road by the way...). Anyway the interstate here is two lanes on each side. I was in the right lane on cruise control and I slowly gain on this Lexus car in front of me. He pulls out to the left lane to go around a semi and I am about 10 car lengths behind and do the same thing. Well we are going down a hill so the semi picks up speed but the car doesn't. Well for about 5 miles he is right beside the semi not gaining or losing time. I get a little restless and pull within about 2 car lengths. Not riding his bumper but definitely making it clear I wanted him to speed up by moving closer. Well this goes on for another 5 miles or so and he finally picks up speed and gets around the truck and moves the right lane. I continue past him and then get over into the right lane as well. Now all of a sudden he accelerates comes right up on my bumper and puts on his high beam lights. Well this car has the LED headlights and they are bright. Not too bad as I am much higher but annoying as you know what. I speed up & he speeds up. Then I figure it out... Oh, he things I was driving behind him with the high beams on. Well, I wasn't. It was the height difference between the vehicles. I speed up and he speeds up. Now I am getting pissed. So I slow down he slows down. He less than a car length behind me trying to aim his headlight right into my driver side mirror. Well, now I have had enough. I tap the breaks and he dives to the left lane and speeds around and using hand signals tells me I am "#1". Well, I decide to tell him that I am not on high beam so I run up about a car length behind him and he tells me I am "#1" again. Then I turn on the high beam! LOL! It lights him up like a Christmas tree!!! I only leave them on for about 30 seconds but during that time he does the hand signal thing like "Ok, I get it and I have had enough..." I pull out and go around him on my merry way and he leaves me the heck alone.

I swear our world continues to grow it's idiot population. I think our entire country gets dumber every year. The smart people are not reproducing fast enough to offset the idiot reproductions!!! I used to think idiots were the minority of the population, now I think they are the majority.

Good thread. I enjoyed the other stories.

-gascan