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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Duh.... you guys are so dumb.

You roll down the windows on the back seat doors and run the wood in sideways. Geeze... I'm sure she'll figure that you on her own.


I'd fold down the rear seats, run the passenger seat as far back as I could and tilt it all the way back. Roll down passenger window and then run the lumber from the far back left corner of the wayback through the passenger window and bungee it together.


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Posts: 3673 | Location: W. Central NH | Registered: October 05, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Open hatch. Drop the seats and push the wood as far forward as it will go. Strap it somehow and tie down the hatch.

I once bought a pre-assembled 8ft bookcase at Ikea from the scratch and dent section. Put it in the trunk of a Civic. Took surface streets instead of the the freeway. Worked out fine.
 
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I have no issue with women being women and not knowing this stuff. That's when us manly men step in. Depending on exactly how it went down, I believe I would have offered some guidance to the women. Alternately the HD check out person should have offered loading assistance. They most times do when you have an oversized load.



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Often today's woman does not desire assistance.
 
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Oh like no one else has done stupid stuff in a HD parking lot.

Cutting a 4x8 sheet of 1/2" sheet rock in half so it will fit in my highlander. Had to make a pitstop at Medimerge for 3 stitches after forgeting "move finger out of path of razor knife"
 
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Not much of a story since I'm not a hot chic, but I had to creatively score and break a piece of concrete board to fit in my trunk in the Lowe's parking lot.
I helped a guy do that, one day, when I was leaving a HD. Guy in a parking lot had a big sheet of rigid foam insulation, looking at it, looking at his car, wondering what he was gonna do.

I wandered over and offered to trim it to the scored lines for him. An offer he gratefully accepted. Out came the pocket knife and away I went Smile



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Back when I drove a truck, several times people accepted my offer to transport items when they lived nearby.


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Often today's woman does not desire assistance.


This, plus if I helped and something went wrong, either damaging the car or losing the load...




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Often today's woman does not desire assistance.


Correct.

I work in wholesale sporting goods. I was in a retailer last month, an outdoor store. Me and the owner were chatting and a lady walks over and asks if the store carries waterproof hiking socks. The owner asked why she wanted waterproof. She said she was going on a hiking trip in Chile. We tried to educate her that waterproof was a bad idea, and she wanted either wool or a synthetic material. She got pissy, cut us off, and walked away to the counter to pay for the other items she had found. After she left, the female cashier came over and said, "That lady was really mad that you guys tried to man-splain her. I told her that it wasn't man-splaining, that they were trying to educate and help you."

All I could do was shake my head. I figured she will learn her lesson, the hard way, after hiking for a week in waterproof socks.
 
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Often today's woman does not desire assistance.


This, plus if I helped and something went wrong, either damaging the car or losing the load...


Also the risk of false accusations, like the below example of an Australian man - Kenan Basic; I'm at a point in my life that I'm very hesitant to help women that I don't know. I don't know of anyone who has been falsely accused of assault that has had their life return to normal.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNsEbYWMKM




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I can't figure how many times I've been at Costco and seen someone, who bought a giant tv like 80 inches or so, and try to stuff it in their munchkin car. Last week it was one of those little iddy biddy Fiat 500 cars.

There's nothing you can do, best just to walk away. People get so pissy after they become embarassed.
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Another one like this! Smile

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That happened in Temple TX where I live, I recognize the street signs. Lol I wonder if they caught the guy



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Posts: 11517 | Location: Temple, Texas! | Registered: October 07, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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That happened in Temple TX where I live, I recognize the street signs. Lol I wonder if they caught the guy[/QUOTE]

As you and I both know, Mike, there's Texas---and then there's East Texas. Some unique examples of FAIL down that direction.
 
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I wouldn’t consider Temple, east TX…but I’m an import, so I could be wrong



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Posts: 11517 | Location: Temple, Texas! | Registered: October 07, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Open hatch. Drop the seats and push the wood as far forward as it will go. Strap it somehow and tie down the hatch.


Most vehicles warn against driving with an open hatch due to carbon monoxide entering the vehicle from the exhaust.




 
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I took my Saturn Vue to Home depot. we were starting our basement finishing project.

If you fold down the back right seat, and the front passenger (which folds flat) From the back gate to the front dash was 8.5ft.

I did the math and I could make it work. I bought 80 2x4's and rolled them out. The HD worker walked out with me and was like, "nope, there is no way"

I laid out two tie down straps and loaded the 2x4's and stacked them. . . they just fit. I wished I had taken a picture.

Dang I loved that Saturn.



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