Desert Whaler
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So this chick on my street calls it quits w/ her dude & she keeps the house.(Surprise) Never really talked to either of them.
I didn't know they were splitsville till a neighbor told me it went down a few years ago.
I was hangin at the neighbors mid-summer, little front-yard mini-block-party.
She's gettin pickled & starts spouting to everyone that she ordered a 23' travel trailer & she's gonna do a big national parks loop with the kids.,since school is a bust . . . Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc. etc. cool, whatever.
Then she goes on a rant about how her little Acura SUV with 190K miles on it is 'rated' to tow it no problem, but the RV dealer is telling her 'No F-ing Way'.
I'm like . . ."Ohhhhh Shiiitttt, Here We Go" . . . (side note- I dated a single Mom of 3 for almost 10 years and I know what's coming next, and I'm having flashbacks).
At one point (and in a voice you can only imagine) she says, "I'm a chick and I have to show these stupid people the towing capacity of my vehicle!!!! They should know their job"!!!!
. . . right about that time, as I'm trying to fade into the background, someone yells my name & says, "Come over here dude, you tow boats all the time, what should she do"???
FUCK.
So I just say, 'I'm a puss, I always try to tow no more than 75% of the vehicles rating, if it says it'll tow 10K, I won't go over 7500".
She looks at me with a blank stare & I can tell she's doing the math in her head . . . then just turns her back and walks away pissed.
Fast forward a couple months and the trailer is about ready to be delivered.
She's still hell bent on towing this thing with the little beater Acura SUV.
Neighbors have another little front-yard get together at sundown . . . and here she comes, on an electric scooter in pajamas and slippers.
Ohhhh shittttt. . . . this is gonna be good !
She gets a couple beverages in her & then out of nowhere someone says, "Hey, when do you get your trailer"??? . . .
She says, "I took my car into UHaul to have a trailer hitch welded on it cause the RV dealer refused to . . . and the asshole at UHaul wouldn't do it either"!!!
. . . right then I blew some beer-foam out of my nose!!! . . . E-P-I-C
Fast forward a few more days and here comes the dealer 'delivering' the trailer cause she didn't have a tow vehicle.
They leave it on the street in front of her house where it sat for a few days. I bet they were stoked to say "C-Ya" !!!
Then some of her 'girlfriends dudes' come over with their fancy trucks who are supposed to know what they are doing, and can't manage to slip it in to the side yard.
It sat for a few more days.
Then finally she breaks down one day and walks over and I loan her my trailer hand-dolly, I take it down there & some dork-dude with some new trendy-truck is trying to figure out the receiver lock.
He had it pretty close & I say, "here you go this might help" . . . dude wanted nothing to do with me, wouldn't even look at me . . . so just I walked back home.
They get it in, and she returns the dolly . . . no worries.
A couple weeks later there's a brand new fully loaded dodge truck in her driveway !!!
So much for the Acura !!!
I was gonna ask her 'What happened to towing this with the . . . " ??? But I'm not that dumb. LOL !
She's taken it out a couple times now, but what a fiasco . . . always super bitter about one thing or another.
So today . .. after 15 attempts to back it in, I walk down there to scope the scene . . . my bro 2 doors down looks at me as I'm walking by & says, "Are you nuts"???
She's on the phone, talking to her girlfriend, ranting about trying to 'back this stupid thing in'.
I sneak up on her & she's all flustered.
Hangs up the phone & starts spouting about how she's trying to figure out how to do it with all the 'new back-up-technology' . . . all the while the backup cameras are now not working.
GAWD.
I 'CAREFULLY' give her a couple easy pointers how to use the mirrors, & made sure she didn't. take-out the block wall on her blind side.
She gets it in and she says, "I owe all my friends who told me to just use the mirrors an apology".
She never said thank you.
I say, "I'll leave you alone now, have a nice day".
A nice little reminder that I'm cool with being a Solo Cholo.
I didn't know they were splitsville till a neighbor told me it went down a few years ago.
I was hangin at the neighbors mid-summer, little front-yard mini-block-party.
She's gettin pickled & starts spouting to everyone that she ordered a 23' travel trailer & she's gonna do a big national parks loop with the kids.,since school is a bust . . . Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc. etc. cool, whatever.
Then she goes on a rant about how her little Acura SUV with 190K miles on it is 'rated' to tow it no problem, but the RV dealer is telling her 'No F-ing Way'.
I'm like . . ."Ohhhhh Shiiitttt, Here We Go" . . . (side note- I dated a single Mom of 3 for almost 10 years and I know what's coming next, and I'm having flashbacks).
At one point (and in a voice you can only imagine) she says, "I'm a chick and I have to show these stupid people the towing capacity of my vehicle!!!! They should know their job"!!!!
. . . right about that time, as I'm trying to fade into the background, someone yells my name & says, "Come over here dude, you tow boats all the time, what should she do"???
FUCK.
So I just say, 'I'm a puss, I always try to tow no more than 75% of the vehicles rating, if it says it'll tow 10K, I won't go over 7500".
She looks at me with a blank stare & I can tell she's doing the math in her head . . . then just turns her back and walks away pissed.
Fast forward a couple months and the trailer is about ready to be delivered.
She's still hell bent on towing this thing with the little beater Acura SUV.
Neighbors have another little front-yard get together at sundown . . . and here she comes, on an electric scooter in pajamas and slippers.
Ohhhh shittttt. . . . this is gonna be good !
She gets a couple beverages in her & then out of nowhere someone says, "Hey, when do you get your trailer"??? . . .
She says, "I took my car into UHaul to have a trailer hitch welded on it cause the RV dealer refused to . . . and the asshole at UHaul wouldn't do it either"!!!
. . . right then I blew some beer-foam out of my nose!!! . . . E-P-I-C
Fast forward a few more days and here comes the dealer 'delivering' the trailer cause she didn't have a tow vehicle.
They leave it on the street in front of her house where it sat for a few days. I bet they were stoked to say "C-Ya" !!!
Then some of her 'girlfriends dudes' come over with their fancy trucks who are supposed to know what they are doing, and can't manage to slip it in to the side yard.
It sat for a few more days.
Then finally she breaks down one day and walks over and I loan her my trailer hand-dolly, I take it down there & some dork-dude with some new trendy-truck is trying to figure out the receiver lock.
He had it pretty close & I say, "here you go this might help" . . . dude wanted nothing to do with me, wouldn't even look at me . . . so just I walked back home.
They get it in, and she returns the dolly . . . no worries.
A couple weeks later there's a brand new fully loaded dodge truck in her driveway !!!
So much for the Acura !!!
I was gonna ask her 'What happened to towing this with the . . . " ??? But I'm not that dumb. LOL !
She's taken it out a couple times now, but what a fiasco . . . always super bitter about one thing or another.
So today . .. after 15 attempts to back it in, I walk down there to scope the scene . . . my bro 2 doors down looks at me as I'm walking by & says, "Are you nuts"???
She's on the phone, talking to her girlfriend, ranting about trying to 'back this stupid thing in'.
I sneak up on her & she's all flustered.
Hangs up the phone & starts spouting about how she's trying to figure out how to do it with all the 'new back-up-technology' . . . all the while the backup cameras are now not working.
GAWD.
I 'CAREFULLY' give her a couple easy pointers how to use the mirrors, & made sure she didn't. take-out the block wall on her blind side.
She gets it in and she says, "I owe all my friends who told me to just use the mirrors an apology".
She never said thank you.
I say, "I'll leave you alone now, have a nice day".
A nice little reminder that I'm cool with being a Solo Cholo.
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