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That totally happened.
No part of this post seems even a little bit unlikely. Why wouldn’t it have happened?
- American
I’m not saying it’s unlikely to happen that a neighbor helps a neighbor move, but the story feels totally fake. I don’t think there’s a network of single men who help each other move furniture for pizza that the narrator stumbled upon, or if there is, I don’t think it’s a typical pattern of American neighborhoods. Like when do they buy the pizza? What size? If he didn’t know that the 3rd guy is coming, why did he have pizza for him? If he thought the payment is cash, why did he have pizza for them? Or did they say: thanks, your total is 6 slices of cheese pizza, it’s going to ask you a couple of questions? And then he ordered pizza from doordash and the 3 of them waited about 40 minutes for it to arrive? How did the truck guy get OPs number? The friend told him: hey, I know a guy who needs a sofa moved, do you need some pizza? Here’s his number just call him he’ll totally answer an unknown number.
I’m the Kevin of my circle. It can happen. You just have to know a guy. The price is pizza. And the unspoken promise that one day you’ll be called into duty when you’re needed.
A world of Kevin’s would be a utopia. Friends helping friends and neighbors helping neighbors because it costs nothing more than a bit of time to be kind.
Tony brought gloves.
I hope he got pizza after moving the fridge.
You know he did. The price was set
This floats to the top of my feed from time to time and Im always happy to read it again
This reminded me of how annoying my previous employer was after I got a Jeep Wrangler instead of a truck. He would mock me having a Jeep all the time. Like I know why you want me to get a truck and no thank you.
I am also concerned you got a Jeep.
I’m jk lol. Enjoy your vehicle.
Thanks, I’ve had it for about 10 years now. I plan to convert to an EV or hybrid sooner or later. The funny part is I use it like a mini truck.
Images you can hear.
I wish Americans voted the same way they move couches. That is, for the purpose of helping someone with no expectation of profit.
That’s because there are outsiders that they do not move couches for. They get to choose. Judge as you will.
the disconnect between how people act face to face and how they vote is sometimes mind blowing
then with other people, it’s just right as expected. you know the type, the ones who never think to hold a door, who leaves shopping carts in the way, who act like dangerous assholes the moment they start driving a vehicle
We’d be a stakeholder socialist country if it weren’t for the oligarchs astroturfing and propagandizing.
There’s unfortunately a good bit of political gerrymandering influencing vote outcomes as well. If congressional districts were impartially drawn nationwide, the US House of Representatives would be a completely different legislative body
The propaganda is powerful but the DSA and the Working Families Party are working to fix things.
When America isn’t busy being at war with itself, it is a hilariously wholesome co-op where everyone is a member of everyone else’s family.
I love coöps! It’s insane to me that this country doesn’t a coöp commonwealth based economy. Stakeholders are way more important than shareholders, but everyone wamts to gamble instead of sharing effort and lightening each other’s loads.
This is the most male coded thing I’ve read in years and it almost made me cry. This was sweet on a very masculine level 🥲
I love positive masculinity!
Need more of it in this world
In Germany instead of Kevin there’s Jan, and instead of a truck he has a toolbox that’s bigger on the inside like the Tardis.
… and usually Jan knows a Maren who owns an old Bulli that you can use for the price of helping her get the seats out and later back in again. You know, in case Jan is busy carrying his toolbox with half your stuff over to your next house.
This is an old(-ish?) copypasta, but it’s a good one.
I’ve read it before. I’ll read it again. I have a truck, it’s ugly, it’s old, and it runs, so it gets used to haul stuff, most recently a refrigerator. The owner of the fridge was out of country. I had to be elsewhere at the designated time, so I was not the “arms”, just the guy with a truck. I’ve owned it for decades. I could not possibly sell it for anything like it’s value to society.
As a former truck owner: yup.
As a trailer owner: yup.
As an owner of two arms: yup.
The quiet, widespread masculinity that is never part of the conversation.
This is a story about community building. And I loved it to bits.
It used to be easier in smaller cities and villages where you were forced to know a lot of people. One of the side effects of being able to live more private lives in the modern age is this lack. In the same way that churches do provide communities (but I still think religion causes far more harm than good).
This is why social safety nets are important - because the baseline should not be “I know a guy”.
Social safety nets for trucks? Maybe not specifically. But you can easily rent a truck in most places these days - $20 for a couple of hours.
But then again, if you think about isolation… that’s where some of the ideas about witches came from in days past. Imagine a woman, losing her husband, living alone, struggling to survive. Society is more “spiritual” and so susceptible to believing some of those old women might be witches. It certainly happened in some instances.
Ideally, I wish we had a society and culture in the US of knowing our neighbors again. Not too much. I don’t want to know of their politics and religion and all the other things I probably disaagree with, but I’d love to be able to give them a cup of sugar if they ran out, or help move a sofa, or all those little things we used to do a bit more for each other.
