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Big oof

  • I'm 31, and consider myself a 2000's kid. I grew up with Fairly Odd Parents, GBA, and PS2, among others. I guess I don't put much stock into my life before age 6; I moved to Canada when I was 5 and have already forgotten much of my native language or what life was like back there.

  • It does seem that there are box trucks based on the Ram pickup chassis, but I don't think I've seen those in person. Most box trucks I see here in Canada are either based on a van chassis (usually Ford Econoline or Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana, but sometimes European-style vans like the Sprinter), the Ford F-650/750, or an actual truck chassis, like an Isuzu cabover or something from a company like Kenworth or International.

  • I once rented a cargo van to buy a mattress and bed frame from IKEA. It turned out that I didn't need the van at all and could have packed everything into the 4-door sedan I had at the time. Part of it was because the mattress was rolled up in a compact manner. I seem to recall that the van could easily fit in one spot.

  • When I drove a small school bus, and I needed to park it somewhere in between the times I was transporting students, I generally looked for a spot at the edges of the lot to back into, where the back of the bus would overhang over the curb (I made sure it would never disturb any sidewalk). Of course, I did several times see full-sized school buses diagonally parked across 4 spaces at the far end of a large parking lot; after all, there's not much else you can do with such a large vehicle.

  • Tesla cars also have notoriously poor build quality, especially for the price; if you must buy an electric car, at this point, as far as I can tell, Hyundai cars are much better built. (Of course, we do need to remember that electric cars do not solve the problem of car dependency.)

  • In summary, there is this belief in South Korea that if you leave an electric fan on in a closed room overnight, it can kill you, supposedly by asphyxiation or hypothermia. There is not really a basis for this theory in reality, and it seems that younger Koreans are less likely to believe this theory.

    Now that I think about it more, perhaps my next Halloween costume should be a Grim Reaper costume with a fan on my face.

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    someguy7734206 @sh.itjust.works

    What bizarre situations have you found yourself in because you couldn't say no?