Friday, August 26, 2011
Who’d own a ute?
Recently I sold my big Ford sedan and bought a nice little Toyota ute, it seemed like a good idea seeing as there’s just me in the house these days and a ute is very handy to have.
It all went well for a few months, and I learned some things about utes and about people. Firstly, owning a ute means everyone will be calling you up every time they need to pick up or drop off something. I’ve had people wanting to put everything in there from oily car engines to fridges and even horse soil… and I've mostly resisted the urge to comply.
But I recently had a trip to the state capital for a few days and the ute was a complete pain in the ass!
Every time I parked it somewhere I came back to find the tarp lifted and the ute searched for booty. (pirate talk not ghetto lingo)
My huge toolbox lives chained and locked across the tray and is covered by the tarp, one night they even had a go at removing the entire thing. They tried the lock, tried the chain, tried the mounts then gave up and tried to remove the whole box.
Every time I left the ute somewhere I had to move all the stuff from the back and stuff it all into the cab so I could lock it up, putting it all back later so I could drive it again.
This is where my sick sense of humor kicked in and I started looking for ways to ‘use’ this extra attention.
I invented a new and novel to get rid of rubbish, you just pack it into a store bag with a few rocks for weight. The bigger the stores name the better, I had one from an expensive boutique coffee shop packed with two days carefully folded rubbish and a couple of rocks from the motel garden. Sure enough somewhere along my travels that day someone was kind enough to remove the bag from the back of the ute.
City people can be nice like that sometimes…
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Hi Tempo,
I know exactly what you mean. My Husband has a ute, and he also puts everything inside. He gave up covering the back with a tarp, so now it is all open. He is lucky in the sense he has a dual cab, so there is a bit more room to throw things inside. But he is always doing favours for a lot of different people with that car. :)
Hi Tempo,
I know exactly what you mean. My Husband has a ute, and he also puts everything inside. He gave up covering the back with a tarp, so now it is all open. He is lucky in the sense he has a dual cab, so there is a bit more room to throw things inside. But he is always doing favours for a lot of different people with that car. :)
Hi Tempo,
I know exactly what you mean. My Husband has a ute, and he also puts everything inside. He gave up covering the back with a tarp, so now it is all open. He is lucky in the sense he has a dual cab, so there is a bit more room to throw things inside. But he is always doing favours for a lot of different people with that car. :)
Sorry, the stupid computer froze,grrr, feel free to delete out.
Sounds like when you want to get rid of stuff where I live.
If you put it out on the curb with a "Free" sign it sits there until the city yells at you.
But if you put it out there with a $10 sign on it...well it's gone before you can say "sucker".
That's a sneaky way to get rid of your rubbish for free. I bet my bottom dollar the theives are cursing you big time :-).
Hi Mags...I hate it when the PC does that.. LOL
Yes, the tarping and untarping is wearing thin on me as well, I'd have bought a dual cab if one had come up when I was looking but when an original, one owner single cab comes up with few miles on it...well, I bought it!
@Sarah, Thats SO funny, I'll have to try the pricing of give away things. I often put fruit out for the kids (Ive got fruit trees) and sometimes household things I no longer want and they stay there for days...
@Windsmoke, I do like a good laugh and pranks are so much fun, I laughed so hard thinking what the thieves were calling me!
When I owned a little Toyota truck people that were too lazy to walk the extra 50 yards to the dumpster threw their trash in the back. It made me furious. I began returning the stuff to it's rightful owner if they were dumb enough to leave anything with their apartment number.
Hi Jen...what is it about a Ute that makes people think they can use it as a trash can? ..or the owner will use his/her time/petrol to cart their crap all around the town for them for nothing?
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