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Is it me or is this cursed rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

What if the gravel he delivered was from an ancient Egyptian burial ground?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Then the Brits will surely be coming for it

[-] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 19 hours ago

r/twosentencehorror intro

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 day ago

God forbid women have hobbies

[-] mlfh@lemmy.sdf.org 96 points 1 day ago

Men are always interrupting women while they're loading 1,500 pounds of gravel into their cars, and I'm sick of it.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It really goes to show how they are still discriminated against in today's society

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Huh. Now I wonder if this will work:

@npr@flipboard.com

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 32 points 1 day ago

The actual story is that some guy helped her out:

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s1-5230186/a-woman-was-loading-1-500-pounds-of-gravel-into-her-car-when-a-stranger-interrupted

It still pisses me off. Who knows how many idiots drive around with tons of gravel in their cars?

[-] needanke@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"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.

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

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.

[-] needanke@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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.