Stupid Right-Winger Alert: 'Unclear on the Concept'

[MineralMan]

This is why tonneau covers on pickup beds are stupid and useless. The owner of this truck might as well own a Fiat 500!

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. He didn't want to scratch the bed liner

95% of the people with pick ups like this do not need them, and you can tell these trucks by the fact that they don't have a scratched on them, anywhere.

[MineralMan]

3. I have a bed liner in my 1996 Ford Ranger.

It covers the rust holes pretty well, and helps things slide in and out of the bed.

I use the bed of my pickup as a storage place for brush and branches as I trim them. When it's full, or when I want to use the truck for something else, I drive to the city's free green waste disposal and mulching site and dump them.

Why have a pickup if you don't use it for its designed purpose? I'll never understand that.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Exactly, you have a working truck

It aggravates me no end to see people with "farm" plates on their truck (which gets the a tax break on diesel) and these truck are as immaculate as the day they left the showroom.

[dchill]

5. Ding, ding! Winner!

[Aristus]

2. Where I live, there are guys who own pickup trucks the size of aircraft carriers.

And the beds are clean, pristine, and never full of whatever it is pickup trucks are supposed to haul.

I strongly suspect a lot of the trucks are just for show, to live up to some kind of rural masculine ideal, even though where I live, it's largely suburban. Kind of the way guys who have never sat on a horse in their lives wear cowboy hats and cowboy boots.

[MineralMan]

6. Yeah, lots of those here in Minnesota, too.

They have covers so the bed doesn't fill up with snow in the Winter. I just leave the snow in there. It improves traction.

[Under The Radar]

4. Board has higher value that the truck, better chain it down.

[MineralMan]

7. LOL! True.

[OriginalGeek]

9. I love my little truck with it's locking hard-shell cover

Keeps all my supplies and tools for telecom work safe and dry and I don't have to unload it every night.

And on the rare occasion I need to pick something up, the cover has quick releases and is easy to remove (with help from a friend who, if I'm picking up something big enough to need the cover removed, I need them to help load the truck anyway).

Don't mean to be contrary but the cover works exactly as I need it to.

[MineralMan]

10. OK, but would you ask your passenger to carry a board

outside of the window? I doubt it.

[OriginalGeek]

12. nope lol

my wife would take my keys and drive me to the nearest facility if I asked her to do that...

[NewHendoLib]

11. my 2002 Tacoma has only 100K miles, and countless plant seedlings

and garden supplies inhabited rhe bed over the years. It's bruised and battered and well used...and I love it!

[MineralMan]

13. That's what pickups were designed for.

My '96 ranger Has 277,000 miles on the clock. Not my doing, though. I don't drive it too far from home, really. In fact, I have to take it back to the shop on Wednesday. Something doesn't sound right with the rear brakes. The shop did a complete rear brake replacement about three weeks ago, so I'm sure they'll sort it out at no charge. I'm going to need it. We're moving across town, and it's going to be going back and forth many times. We're hiring movers for the furniture, etc., but I can move a bunch of other stuff and save a few bucks. I have to head to the electronics recycling place, too, with excess stuff to get rid of. It's going to get a work-out.

[NewHendoLib]

14. when we moved last year, 10 loads to the landfill and 10 to donate to a

local organization. Truck was a lifesaver...downsizing made possible!

[MineralMan]

15. That, too.

However, there will be a 20-yard roll-off dumpster in my driveway in a couple of weeks. I'll fill it, no doubt, with stuff I'm not taking with us.

Before it gets full, and before it is scheduled to be picked up, I'm going to have a moving sale in the driveway. Anything that doesn't sell goes into the roll-off. Many bargains will be available, and all offers will be accepted. Big free pile, too.

Since we're downsizing, there's a lot of stuff I have that simply will not be moved. It goes, one way or another. That includes a lot of tools I no longer need, as well. The snowblower and mower go with the house, since I won't need them. All other garden tools stay with the house, as well. The new owners will need them.

All of my storage shelves are heavy-duty, knockdown plastic units. Those are going with us, to be used in the garage, as needed, assuming there aren't built-in storage shelves at the new place, which we haven't bought yet.

I'm also not moving my huge desk and hutch unit out of the basement. It's seven feet long and six feet high. It's easy to knock down, but my plan is to leave it here where it is, so the new owner will have a ready to use office space. If the new owner doesn't want it, I'll disassemble it and give it away to someone. It's solid pine, designed and built by me years ago. I will not have room for it, and will switch to a much smaller office desk. A smaller, similar one my wife uses will go with us.